The Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depot is a historic railroad freight depot located at 110 North Cedar Street on the southwest corner of Northwest Second Street in Abilene, Kansas. Like the passenger depot nearby, it was originally built in 1928 (though not opened until 1929), designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and was constructed by G.A. Johnson & Sons company in Chicago.[2] The depot was in the Mission/Spanish Revival architectural style, though it also contains some Greek revival elements.
The station began to decline in the post-World War 2 era, when railroads were focusing on receiving more of their freight through yards and industrial sidings. Union Pacific sold the freight house to Abilene Iron and Metal in 1974. In 1980 it was sold to a man named Gordon Davis, Jr., who himself sold the building to painting contractor Tim Geske in 1987. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 2, 1993.[3] Today, the station serves as a paint and hardware store.[4]
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^Abilene Travel Information Center (Visit Abilene, Kansas.org)
^"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depot". National Park Service. Retrieved February 9, 2023. With accompanying pictures
^Geske Interiors in Abilene, Kansas (Chamber of Commerce.com)
and 20 Related for: Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Freight Depot information
The AbileneUnionPacificRailroadFreightDepot is a historic railroadfreightdepot located at 110 North Cedar Street on the southwest corner of Northwest...
UnionPacific 844 is a class "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the UnionPacificRailroad for its heritage fleet. Built...
Western Railroad and Omaha, Abilene and Wichita Railway. Making use of the constellation of railroads, the US Army built the Omaha Quartermaster Depot in Omaha...
of Marshall, Longview, Dallas, Fort Worth, Abilene, Midland and Odessa. No. 610 also regularly pulled freight trains out of Shreveport, Louisiana. No. 610...
freight. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.) In 1980, operated mileage had dropped to 1181, but freight...
Terminal Railway (WUT) Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad Amtrak (AMTK) Ottawa Northern Railroad New Century AirCenter Railroad During World War II, less...
Mahaska County, Iowa Pella Depot Rock Rapids Depot Stuart Depot Vinton Depot Walker Depot Wilton Depot Rock Island Depot (Abilene, Kansas), listed on the...
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Texas. BNSF Railway (BNSF) Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) UnionPacificRailroad (UP) There are...
full-fledged electric freight railway by the time it ceased operations effective May 31, 1939. The beginnings of the railroad were as the Twin City Railway...
Southern Railroad - began 1894 to build from Little Falls to Albany, but ended up as a mile-long freight spur owned by the Northern Pacific Railway at...
Station in Nevada and together rode the brake beams of a freight car on the UnionPacificRailroad to Oakland, California. Daken often painted at Jack London's...
number at Colorado Railroad Museum A number at Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad A number at Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad None at Durango...
a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War but was refused because of his young age. He began working with a freight caravan that delivered...
For freight service, there are three Class I railroads in Kansas: BNSF, UnionPacific, and Kansas City Southern; as well as many shortline railroads. Executive...
spring 1868 Earp was hired to transport supplies needed to build the UnionPacificRailroad. He learned gambling and boxing while working on the rail head in...
the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum at the restored Historic RailroadDepot in Tucson, Arizona, at the approximate site of the shooting on the train...
Global Information
