[RITSlist] Herington facilities

[Carl Fankhauser]

John, thanks for the recent photos of the Herington, KS area.  I've been 
following that of what has been recently posted on Trainorders.com, some of 
what Bob Yarger recently posted here on RITS.  Is quite a good bit of 
historical shots from years past as well as more recent there.

John, in your rrpicture archive on page 3, your first picture of the 
concrete building, you question whether this was the scale house building. 
What I recall, I think it was the standard wood structure similar to what 
used to be used in North Yard in Wichita.  This concrete building with the 
sign I want to think was part of the operation dealing with the concrete 
coaling tower that was demolished there by the SP.  I presume this building 
had a reason for staying or simply, was not affecting the trackage 
operation.  The sign makes me believe this was the firm from Chicago that 
engineered and built the coaling tower originally.  As for the SSW caboose 
on page 1, I wonder how long it will be before someone thinks they have to 
throw rocks at the wondows and the marker lamp on top?  Seems like in the 
past vandels always had to attack the glass on a park loco as such, 
including the headlight reflector and probably nowadays, also tag with their 
paint cans. Thanks again for your posting.
Carl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jmatrow at juno.com>
To: <ritslist at simpson.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Herington facilities


> Here are pictures taken a few weeks ago:
> http://kantrak1.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=30150
> Free to join and leave comments.
>
> UP trains are now using the new overpass in Wichita.
> Thus, UP has eliminated (or will soon eliminate) major grade crossings in
> Wichita, Herington and Haysville, Kansas.
>
> John Matrow
> Wichita KS
>
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:01:03 -0700 (PDT) Bob Yarger
> <bobyar2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> Description of destruction of CRI&P facilities at
>> Herington, KS.  Look soon, as it will not be available
>> later.
>>
>> http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1636899
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