Appears Gallinipper Creek flows into the Osage River near Osceola MO, per Google Maps. A quick look doesn't show any current rail lines, so whatever line the picture shows may be long gone.
1927 was a major year for flooding across the middle South.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE
Here in the Twin Cities there was major flooding in 1952, particularly affecting trains getting in and out of St. Paul Union Depot, which is right on the Mississippi. Several streamlined trains, like the Rock Island Rocket, had to be pulled by steam engines instead of diesels, since the diesel's motors shorted out in the water but as long as the water didn't reach the fireboxes, the steam engines could still run.
