Above, the only known photo taken at the Table Rock gumbo ballast fields, which lay between the depot & the Nemaha. It is undated. The locomotive has a CB&Q sign on it but the rail line was Burlington & Missouri when gumbo burning began.
Don’t you just love a good story?
Better yet, one set in Pawnee County.
Sharla Sitzman of Table Rock collects stories from yesteryear and yesterday.
Gumbo. The soil not the soup. It is formed from a type of clay called bentonite. Scientifically, one would say that gumbo is formed when water comes into contact with bentonite. One source gives this scientific explanation: Water “attaches to…
