Talk:Centennial Station

Union Pacific station demolished


According to http://olympiahistory.org/wp/tag/railroad/, the UP station is still extant; the one demolished and replaced was that of Northern Pacific.

''The first Northern Pacific depot, pictured at above left, was built in about 1891, the year that the Northern Pacific railroad reached downtown Olympia (see also 7th Avenue Tunnel). It was a long clapboard building with a platform facing the tracks adjacent to the Deschutes Estuary (now Capitol Lake). This building was razed in 1966 and replaced by the current building, with similar architecture, in 1967. Following the demise of passenger service to downtown Olympia, this building was acquired by the state and is currently (2012) vacant.''

''The Union Pacific Depot building was built in 1916 when a 7 mile UP spur was brought to downtown Olympia. Although it carried some passengers, its primary cargo was bound for the factories and ports of the newly created port area of Olympia. In 1959 a train was left without its brakes on in Tumwater, and slowly gathered speed, reaching speeds over 60 miles per hour when it crashed into and through the depot and finally came to rest 300 feet to the north. One man was killed and the entire area around the depot was destroyed. The portion of the current building to the north is new, but remnants of the old brick depot remain in the long brick structure to the south.''--181.47.159.236 (talk) 13:35, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I mistook East Olympia for Downtown Olympia. Anyway, the Downtown depots are not mentioned. --181.47.159.236 (talk) 13:59, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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