Burlington Station - Omaha NE - Lincoln Highway on Waymarking.com

The Burlington Station opened in 1898 and was a showplace during the days of passenger rail to the 1950s. In some ways, the rise of long-distance auto travel along the Lincoln Highway, which runs through Omaha as US 6, eventually doomed the Burlington Station as a passenger rail depot.

The Lincoln Highway runs through Nebraska from east to west along US 6 from the Iowa border, to W 174th street past Boys Town on the western edge of Omaha. There, the Lincoln Highway follows the old route of the US 275 west to Fremont NE, where the US 275 joins the US 30, which the Lincoln Highway follows all the way across the WY-NE border.

After the decline of passenger rail in the 1950s, and the end of individual passenger rail routes in 1972, the Burlington Station building had a tough 5 decades. It was eventually an empty gutted shell, with all its beautiful and unique interior furnishings removed and sold away. A plan to turn the Burlington Station into luxury condos fell through in the 2008 recession. It looked like the building was destined for more decades of neglect. Then, in 2013, local ABC-affiliate TV station KETV bought the Burlington Station, and renovated it into their new studios.

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