![]() ![]() Just beyond that was a wooden "gravity" type coaling facility, built in 1903 and replaced in 1929 by an Ogle concrete chute of 500-ton capacity that straddled the main line. In 1920, Syracuse had three water tanks - two 24圆0 treating tanks and a 24x43 treated water storage tank - one of the 24圆0 tanks is at the left edge of this shot, and the Postcard History version shows a 24x43 tank just beyond it. The book also has a closer, ground-level view of the 10-stall stone roundhouse visible in the distance. From that, I believe this aerial view looks southeast, with the freight house just out of the view to the left and the depot/hotel somewhat further out of the view. ![]() A Postcard History of the Early Santa Fe Railway has a differently cropped version of this particular card, with more to the top and left and less on the bottom and right, as well as a nice wide trackside view looking west past the depot, showing the water tanks across the tracks. ![]() > material for the railroad facilities that are > good TO members to come up with some descriptive I wonder if it was the same photographer who captured the aerial photo of the Syracuse depot/Sequoyah Harvey House (which looked nothing like the depot at Great Bend, KS) at the following site:Īccording to that page, the hotel closed in 1936, but the building wasn't demolished until 1972.everything but the single-story baggage room at the far west end, which at last report was still standing forlornly trackside like a bit of fringe torn from a fancy garment. > don't have information regarding the aerial ![]() > Kansas, near the Kansas-Colorado border in 1916. > Topeka & Santa Fe Railway plant at Syracuse, > came across one that shows some of the Atchison, > facilities were available before the 1920s, but I Not too many aerial photographs of railroad ![]()
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