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Michael Emerson Avitt posted Wahoo, Nebraska on December 28, 2009.
Mike Bartels: Part of the Saunders County Historical Society Museum complex. Agency discontinued in 1972. Last train by it in 1982. |
Tom Weber
posted six photos with the comment:
The Wahoo Burlington Depot in Nebraska was built in 1886 for a subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and is still standing on its original site (not including 2 restorations).
Over the decades, the depot was used for both passenger and freight traffic. But with ridership declining in the 1930s and 1940s, the main use of the depot was for freight traffic up to the time of the merger in 1970 when the line became a Burlington Northern route.
The depot was closed two years after the merger in 1972, and the line abandoned in 1982.
The Burlington Northern first leased and then donated the building to the Saunders County Historical Society in 1984, and the Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The CB&Q caboose was built in 1929 by the Santa Fe Railroad who eventually was bought out by Burlington Northern. The caboose was retired in 1982 and donated the same year to the museum grounds.
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The town used to have three railroads. Only the UP route is left.
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1969/71 Wahoo West & East Quads @ 24,000 |
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1969/71 Wahoo West & East Quads @ 24,000
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Wahoo was on a branch between Ashland and Schuyler.
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