Santa Fe Depot - Carrollton, MO - Train Stations/Depots on Waymarking.com

County of depot: Carrol County
Location of depot: Main St. (Bus. US 65), Carrollton

A Google book report of the Santa Fe Magazine 1916 about the new depot

Google Books listing of The Santa Fe Magazine has some interesting facts

"Most of the Santa Fe depots that survive on-site between Kansas City and Chicago have been heavily modified for use by maintenance of way forces. A portion of the waiting room of the handsome Carrollton, MO depot had been removed and the remainder converted to a garage by the time this picture was taken in 1992." ~ Rail Fan

"We got to Carrollton around 11:40, a fairly easy drive and well ahead of No. 4. We parked the Jeep in a wide grassy area between the tracks and the pole line, presumably on company property. (I mention this because one Ernest Robl is publishing a "How-To" book on railfanning, and has made his chapter on safety available on the web. Check it out, but be sure to have your steel-toed boots, safety goggles, hard-hat, etc. on hand. Oh, and no shorts - shorts would not be "appropriate".)

"The depot's at approximately MP 386 and there's a detector to the east at 382 and some nearer grade crossings. To the west there are a couple of grade crossings far enough out to give you some warning. Traffic here moved pretty fast and seemed to be mostly intermodals. An elevator across the street from the depot was buzzing with activity, unloading truckloads of corn as fast as possible. They had an old GeeP switcher, Midwest Rail 201.

"Our first train, at 11:50, was an eastbound piggyback behind BNSF 4644, 8212, 5474 and 4668. The eastbound Southwest Chief blasted through Carrolton at 12:32. The first of the three units was 93 and they were by in a flash. Here's Byron awash in the train's "bow wave" - sorry about the shorts.

"The NS main comes into Carrollton just a couple of blocks south of the ATSF depot. The two lines combine just west of town at "WB Junction". On this day a bridge repair project kept us from driving directly south to the NS line, but we did manage to catch some traffic on it. Just a few minutes after the Amtrak train came through, we detoured down to the NS line and found two trains and some light KCS power. NS 8987 and ex-WC MRL 1744 had a westbound manifest that met an eastbound one at the junction. On the eastbound train were CSXT (CR) 7114 and HLCX 7149, one of the BN's natural gas units." ~ Virtual Trail Watching in Missouri

Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: No Is the station/depot open to the public?: No If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?: Appears to be storage garage for local electric company trucks What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: Carrollton: The passenger stations originally built by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and Wabash Railroad here still stand. Station/Depot Web Site: [Web Link]

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