Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Shawnee, OK: Santa Fe Depot & Freight House and Flour Mill

Depot: (Satellite)
Freight House: (Satellite)
Flour Mill: (Satellite)

The depot is now the Pattawatomie County Museum.

I included the caboose and grain elevator as a bonus.
Street View, Feb 2023

Just like they did in Downers Grove, IL, BNSF cut down the trees by the track.
Street View, Aug 2016

J Mike Wester posted
Empty cotton wagons in front of Santa Fe Freight Offices in Shawnee Oklahoma.
Walter Jenny Jr.: Most people don't realize how big cotton was in Shawnee and elsewhere in Oklahoma a century or more ago.
[A comment indicates the freight house was just north of the depot.
Note the one story freight handling part behind the office building part. Is the building on the left also a freight handling buliding?] 

J Mike Wester commented on his drive

The freight hous was a little west of north of the depot.
EarthExplorer: Apr 8,, `1964 @ 18,000; AR1VAZD00020191

The only thing left of the east/west Sante Fe route is a remnant that allows the UP/Rock Island to serve this flour mill.
It produces "over one million pounds of food products daily." [ShawneeMilling]
Satellite




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