Marceline, MO: Santa Fe Depot and Coaling Tower(s?)

Depot: (Satellite)  It now is the Walt Disney Hometown Museum

Coaling Towers: (Satellite)

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.

photo, Oct 2020

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.

Street View

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.

Street View

Street View

Street View

Update:

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.

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.

Ryan Dorrell commented on Dale' post, cropped

Ryan Dorrell commented on Dale' post, cropped

Ryan Dorrell commented on Dale' post, cropped