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Satellite)
The good news is that a renovation was completed in 2019. The bad news is that it is closed to the public. After passenger train service terminated in 1979, it set vacant until 1982 when Multimedia Cablevision converted it to office space. But they moved to a bigger space in 2007. [
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The brick building was the Rock Island Depot. There is a display of railroad equipment on the overpass
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Kansas Historical Society
"The facility built in cooperation with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway [Frisco], and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. The Wichita Union Terminal Company handled daily operations. The station designed by Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss still stands."
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This depot replaced the earlier Santa Fe depot, which served its first train on May 16, 1872. [
TripAdvisor]
At the top-right corner of this map excerpt, the Santa Fe was on the left, the Rock Island was in the middle and the Frisco was on the right. The "PACIFIC" in the left middle was the Missouri Pacific. That route is now abandoned. I presume the vertical rectangle where
City Hall Parking stands now was the MoPac depot. Wichata Street is where the tracks used to run.
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| 1956 Wichita East Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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