Railway Near Gano Missouri

I was out searching today out near Gano Village on Hiway 19 about 5 miles from Salem Mo.Rail lines look to be the old "Salem ,Winona and Southern Railroad" .Now out of business.

Update:After more reseach .Salem ,Winona and Southern was farther south.

I had been seeing a mound of dirt stretching for a mile or 2 parallel of Route 19. Looked like old rail lines . I stopped in a Gano Store & asking Dena (the owner) about the mounds running along side of the road.She told me it was a Rail right of way buried by the State of Missouri Transportation (MoDot) a while back. Rail lines are visable from road on right of way across from Gano Store. Stop in .Great Burgers! Tell Dena "Durb" sent ya.

Here is what i have researched about the Rail line.

Minerals have influenced the Dent County economy. Greatest was the iron furnace built at Sligo starting in 1880 and active until 1923, 43 years. Sligo was the fourth iron works built in the state, following Meramec, Midland and Nova Scotia. There was plenty of iron ore -- Simmons Hill in Salem, Orchard and Cherry Valley, Millsap, Pomeroy, Hawkins Banks, Red Hill and Scotia. Mr. Elmer writes in his history that the Sligo furnace was the most successful and continued longer than any other iron furnace in Missouri. The Sligo furnace was built on Crooked Creek and produced 60 to 80 tons of pig iron a day, with some runs of up to 100 tons. E.B. Sankey came from New Castle, Pa. in 1870 to survey the St.Louis-Salem and Little Rock Railroad from Cuba to Salem. The Sligo & Eastern Railroad ran a branch to East End to gather wood for the kilns producing charcoal for the furnace. Sligo’s population, in its big years reached 1,000.

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