Lincoln, NE: CB&Q & RI Depots and Havelock CB&Q & RI Depots

Downtown CB&Q: (3D Satellite)

Downtown RI: (Satellite)

Amtrak: (Satellite)

Havelock CB&Q: (Satellite, I'm guessing in the southeast quadrant of Havelock Avenue and the tracks)

Havelock RI: (Satellite, someplace along the David Murdock Trail)

Havelock was a company town for their mechanical shops that CB&Q built starting at the end of the 19th Century after a land company gave them the land for the shops and town. It is now a neighborhood in Lincoln.

Beatrice Area Railroad Enthusiasts posted
Burlington depot Havelock, NE 1903

Beatrice Area Railroad Enthusiasts posted
Rock Island depot Havelock, NE

1897 Lincoln Quad @ 125,000

Opened in 2012

Street View

"The former CB&Q depot—known as Lincoln Station—was built in 1927. In its day, the passenger facility was considered one of the finest buildings owned by the railroad. In the late 1980s, the Lincoln Depot Limited Partnership used rehabilitation tax credits to renovate and restore the structure. The old waiting room is now rented for special events while the remainder of the station includes an art gallery, restaurant and offices." [GreatAmericanStations]

Street View, Aug 2018

Street View, Aug 2017
Bill Harris Iron Horse Park was the site of an addition to the REA Express building. A mural was commissioned to cover the cinder block wall that was exposed when the addition was removed. The water tower is a decorative fountain. "The steam train adjacent to the park, CB&Q 710, was built in the Burlington Shops of the town of Havelock in 1901.  Havelock grew up around the bustling Shops, which the town’s developers had courted and won with an offer of free land.  Locomotive 710 first served passenger trains, then was retooled as a short-haul freight locomotive in the 1920s.  By the 1950s, the steam era was ending and Burlington refurbished the steam engine and tender as a gift to the City of Lincoln in 1955.  She was displayed on a hilltop in Pioneers Park until she was again refurbished in 1991 and returned to sit on Track One beside Burlington’s depot in the Haymarket." [LincolnHaymarket]

The above views of Lincoln Station are track side. This is the "front" (east) side.

Street View, Aug 2018

One of the platforms and its canopy was retained. It now provides a covered sidewalk that is several blocks long.

Street View, Jul 2018

As with many cities, there is a sports arena downtown that was built on former passenger train yards. These former railyards are why Lincoln Station is now next to roads instead of tracks and why most of these downtown buildings are new.

1980 Lincoln Quad @ 24,000

In 2011, the static display had a boxcar instead of a caboose.

Loco Steve Flickr, 
CB&Q Locomotive 710 on display at Lincoln Station. NE.
One of the few remaining steam locomotives built at Burlington Railroad's Havelock Shops, Locomotive 710 was constructed in 1901 and rebuilt in 1928 with smaller drive wheels. The 78 ton locomotive has a 4-6-0 configuration. It was used first in passenger service, then for mixed freight loads from 1928-1950. Donated to the City of Lincoln in 1955, it was displayed at Pioneers Park until 1991, when it was repaired and relocated to Track 1, adjacent the Burlington Depot (Lincoln Station) in the Haymarket Landmark District.

This was the depot before today's 1927 preserved depot was built.

Postcard

An obviously colorized version of the above photo.

trainweb-cbq and trainweb-lincoln

In 1870, the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, later CB&Q, was the first railroad to arrive in Lincoln. It replaced its initial wood depot with "a handsome Victorian Gothic structure of brick and stone" in 1881. Lincoln Station was renovated in 1989-90. [DowntownLincoln] Two of the photos on that web site:

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Raymond Storey posted
LINCOLN NEB

Art LH: is it still standing ?

Mike Bartels: Art LH Yes, used by Union Bank & Trust Co. as a drive-in bank branch. They are the second bank to use it since the original conversion in 1969.

Dennis DeBruler: Art LH https://maps.app.goo.gl/amTQgSSzE2Dcg5Ep9

Street View, Aug 2018