Thursday, August 15, 2024

Kearney, NE: CB&Q Roundhouse, Shops & Depot and UP Depot

Roundhouse and Shops: (Satellite, gone, it was about four blocks east of their depot.)
CB&Q Depot: (Satellite, gone)
UP Depot: (Satellite, gone)

Tim Starr posted
A windmill powered Burlington & Missouri roundhouse and repair shop at Kearney, NE. The UP and B&M (future CB&Q) stations were nearly next door to each other where the railroads intersected. 1881 map.

Look at all of the milkcans on the cart ready to be loaded on a train.
Jim Arvites posted
View of the Union Pacific Railroad passenger depot at Kearney, Nebraska circa 1916. The station was demolished in 1981.
(UNK Archives)
Mike Bartels: It would be expanded in the 1920s. Demolished in February 1981.

1954/55 California and 1962/64 Kearney Quads @ 24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Tim's post
The CB&Q branch terminated in this town,
 https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/knx_rail/id/298

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