Depot: (
Satellite) It now is the Walt Disney Hometown Museum
Coaling Towers: (
Satellite)
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Marty Bernard posted AT&SF Depot, Marceline, MO in August 1983 Roger Puta photo Trenton Dominy: This depot is now the Walt Disney hometown museum to bad they couldn’t combine that with an active train station. |
While looking for
oil pipeline pumping stations, I noticed an elevated round silo in the middle of a vacant part of the BNSF/Santa Fe Yard. I wondered if that was a coaling tower. Then I saw the elevated rectangular building to its northeast that is definitely a coaling tower. The town is about half-way between Fort Madison and Kansas City, so it was probably a division point. Evidently the need to add coal to the many trains that the Santa Fe ran between Los Angeles and Kansas City to Chicago became so large that they built the round one to supplement the number of tracks served by the rectangular one. Note that the coal unloading sheds shared the same coal service track.
I think the guy driving the Google Street View car was a railfan. He went down about every side street to get close to the BNSF yard.
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Andrew Simpson commented on a post Marceline, Mo still has one. It is the boyhood home of Walt Disney and Main Street was the inspiration for Disney Main Street. Built in 1902. |
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Dale Hearn posted Westbound Santa Fe 5852, an SD45-2, a 9500 series SF30C and a GP30, throttle up as they come around the curve and pass the old steam engine service facility on the west side of Marceline, MO. Aug. 10, 1991. Dale Hearn photo. Ryan Dorrell Now the coal facilities are just a big fancy MOW garage. Ryan Dorrell I’m originally from there. My Dad was a conductor there from 70’s to 90’s until they closed the depot and he got moved to Ft Madison. I’m back there several times a year. The depot is now the Walt Disney Hometown Museumand two years ago also became home to an SD40 #5008 Friends of the ATSF 1708 which has received lots of cosmetic restoration and looks great. |
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Ryan Dorrell commented on Dale' post, cropped |
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Ryan Dorrell commented on Dale' post, cropped |
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Ryan Dorrell commented on Dale' post, cropped |
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