Re: [CBQ] Switcher at Leavenworth, KS 1961 (was 1957)

["Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

February 6, 2019

 

Bill - Thanks for the additional data on Q operations in Leavenworth, as well as noting that the building with the Q logo is not the freight house.  Somewhere, I've got an image or two of Q steam power in Leavenworth, but I file my locomotive images by road number and not location, so I've got to do some searching to find them. Best Regards - Louis  

 

 

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From: William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@groups.io>
Sent: Tue, Feb 5, 2019 7:02 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Switcher at Leavenworth, KS 1961 (was 1957)

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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