Louis,
Good picture. The depot was on the northeast corner of 5th and
Choctaw. Jim Will said the CGW also had rights to use the depot.
He needs to check his notes to be sure, but he believes it was
torn down in 1960. There is a currently a parking lot at the old
depot site. Starting in the 1940s, a Burlington (then Continental)
Trailways bus connection was used to Beverly to meet the passenger
trains on the St. Joe-KC main. By 1958, a note in the passenger
timetable says that passengers must make their own arrangements
between Leavenworth and Beverly. Probably the MP Missouri River
Eagle had siphoned off much of the rail passenger traffic at
Leavenworth by then and it also provided an all rail connection to
Kansas City or Omaha.
The freight house was a few blocks west of the passenger station,
so the building behind the depot is not the freight house. It is
shown on the attached Sanborn maps.
The Q track charts show the line into Leavenworth was built 1892
by the Burlington and Missouri River once the Leavenworth Terminal
completed the bridge across the Missouri River. The Q used
trackage rights on the CGW from Stillings on the Missouri side
across the bridge into Leavenworth.
The Library of Congress color Sanborn maps from 1897 show the
depot has already been constructed. Passenger service was run as
connections to St. Joe-KC main trains at East Leavenworth and
later Beverly (starting 1938). The freight house that was later
commonly used by the Q, CGW and RI was initially built and
operated by the Leavenworth Terminal Railway based on the Sanborn
map of 1897.
By the Sanborn maps of 1905, the Q and the RI had assumed control
of the freight house. The CGW had it's own small freight house on
the southeast corner of 7th and Choctaw.
By 1913, the Sanborn maps showed that the CGW still had it's own
freight house at 7th and Choctaw but was also using the joint Q/RI
house. By 1924, all three were together (maybe a result of USRA
operation in World War I?).
A friend who grew up in Leavenworth is building ATSF O scale
layout based on what he saw there. He recalls in the late 1950s
and early 1960s there still was substantial LCL traffic moving to
Fort Leavenworth which made the freight houses very busy places.
Bill Hirt
On 2/5/2019 4:45 PM, Louis Zadnichek
via Groups.Io wrote:
February 5, 2019
Bill, Rick and Group -
I've attached an image of the Q's handsome brick station
in Leavenworth, KS, dated September 22, 1957. The freight
house with the Burlington Logo is on the backside. There
must've been quite a lot of traffic in years gone by to
have such a large station and freight house. Best Regards
- Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
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