Nostalgia & History > Depot Friday: Osborne, KS in yellow

I was glad to find my late friend Gary’s depot shot in his collection. The first time I ever worked a train into Osborne, KS the former Salina Northern depot had already been painted white. This was in early 1981 while I was force-assigned to local train 1351-52 based out of Abilene. I was on that job for just over a month. I ended up enjoying it so much that I actually remained on it after my seniority would have allowed me to return to the brakeman’s extra board at Emporia...

1. AT&SF depot in Osborne, KS as it looked in June of 1973. I’m not sure when the standard SFe depot yellow was painted over...
Original Kodachrome slide by Gary Rich.

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels
santafe199
Remembering the late Gary Rich, aka ‘waycar rider’

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I was inside that depot a couple of times when I was in engineer training(1978-79)...I wish I had been taking pictures then...so glad Gary took that shot and you got this posted really jogs some memories of going up those old branch lines that at the time were still ATSF lines.   Like you, I remember it being white, and the interior was still iconic and in dark wood with a poster showing how much tonnage had came off that branch almost all of it interchange traffic with the MP.



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Those unattended packages might be crew grips?
Dave in MT

today?

dan Wrote: > ...  today?

speak English

santafe199 Wrote:
 dan Wrote: > ...  today?... speak English>>

In today's travel world, unattended packages are to be avoided. 

Dave

monaddave Wrote: > ...  In today's travel world, unattended packages are to be avoided ...

Could be, but who knows... Gibberdan might be wondering what the depot looks like know. Or maybe what it looked like in 1981. Who-the-hell knows? He just can't treat his fellow TO members with any respect, so we get his constant gibberish. 

Lance

santafe199 Wrote:
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> monaddave Wrote: > ...  In today's travel world,
> unattended packages are to be avoided ...
>
> Could be, but who knows... Gibberdan might be
> wondering what the depot looks like                                            know.                       Or maybe
> what it looked like in 1981. Who-the-hell knows?
> He just can't treat his fellow TO members with any
> respect, so we get his constant gibberish. 
>
> Lance             you can't even berate me  with out making an error screw you .. of course i was wondering if survived to today ...if i did that you  anal retentive   farts like you would be coming out of the woodwork for me to use spell check  

i was doing the opposite of gibberish                       one succinct  word



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Can't find it on Google Maps. Presumably razed or relocated. 

ctillnc Wrote: > ... Presumably razed or relocated ... 

Relocated. Check the intersection of US hwy 24 & N 2nd St...

Lance/199

In 1974  train 1351 / 1352 worked out of Salina to Osborne with me as the engineer and John Goben as the conductor.  Lee Wall and Gary Rich were the brakemen.  They car-pooled to Salina from Newton.  Enough about the crew, as to the color of  the Osborne depot, it was WHITE in 1974.

Mark