The Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Railway was a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad that was located in southeastern Missouri and began service in 1892. It extended from Riverside in a genera
No 1 narrow gauge engine, which ran from Bonne Terre to Summit from 1880 to 1890
M.R. & B.T. Caboose No 3
Bridge over Big River, 11 a.m. train, Desloge, Missouri
The Southeast Missouri Lead District, commonly called the Lead Belt, is a lead mining district in the southeastern part of Missouri. It contained deposits of galena and other metal-sulfide ores of the
Historical marker commemorating the first mine at Mine La Motte "about 1700".
Missouri Mines State Historic Site occupies a retired lead mill in the "old lead belt"
Cubic galena (lead ore) from the Sweetwater Mine of the Viburnum Trend (Reynolds County, Missouri).
Sphalerite, galena, and marcasite from the Viburnum Trend District (Reynolds County, Missouri).