Western Railroad Discussion > Depot Friday: Concordia KS Three fer . . .

Years ago there were 4 depots in this area but the CB&Q building is gone.
1. UP depot houses the Orphan Train Museum with history articles of history concerning the Orphan Trains and how the country's DHS system came to be.
2. MoP--not sure how it is being used now but is being kept up very well
3. SantaFe now used by BNSF
Thanks for looking. Photos October 5 2014
Brian Stevens

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SCKP187 Wrote:
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> Years ago there were 4 depots in this area but the
> CB&Q building is gone.
> 1. UP depot houses the Orphan Train Museum with
> history articles of history concerning the Orphan
> Trains and how the country's DHS system came to
> be.
> 2. MoP--not sure how it is being used now but is
> being kept up very well
> 3. SantaFe now used by BNSF
> Thanks for looking. Photos October 5 2014
> Brian Stevens

Concordia has one of the strangest track arrangements. Entering from the east on the BNSF, trains are forced to stop and crawl through a 10mph diamond. Of which said track of the KYLE is just used for storage. Why the BNSF can't/won't enter into an agreement with the KYLE to straighten out the curve and speed up trains through town is beyond me. But... like a lot of things on the railroad if such idea's don't come directly from management, it'll never happen. And they aren't ever out there looking for ways to improve the physical plant. I wish I could get a job like that.

Tell me about it, if you look from the US81 overpass Southbound the mess of track and stations
looks like something you'd see in a city of a 100,000 or so. You really wonder why the interest
in a small town.

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