Wood Elevator: (Satellite)
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| Rocky Myrtle posted Tax Write-offs I arrived at Ness City in eighty-one. There were eleven depot agents then. In a few years they started cutting their jobs. One by one they were gone except for one at Great Bend. The buildings were all there, just no agents. Then they started going to each empty depot and were installing state or the art systems in those empty depots. Gone were the Morse code looking wire senders. I came in the Ness City depot one afternoon and he was just finishing his install. There was no agent, and this made no sense. We did have a computer but that was it. They installed it after the agent job was abolished. It went into the new year. That new equipment just sat in every empty depot gathering dust. One day the man who installed the equipment was removing everything he had put in the year before. I asked him what he was doing. He said removing all the equipment from each depot. I asked why. He said it was all installed knowing it would never be used, but it was a tax write-off for Santa Fe. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Rocky's post The depot and the wood grain elevator are extant. https://maps.app.goo.gl/TMR26zxxrCz9wBQp9 |
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