Burning gumbo for the railroad

It’s the Story
  • Burning gumbo for the railroad
    Burning gumbo for the railroad
  • 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.
    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...

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