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Not sure if it really counts but I work in the buildings where the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railway began. Today it's BNSF Railway's locomotive overhaul and wreck repair facility. Sadly many of the buildings from the turn of the century are gone today including the old round house and turn table. At one time over 2,500 workers were employed at the shops where they built entire steam locomotives and cars from scratch. They once even made headlines for having built the largest steam locomotive in the world at the time. There is so much history on the property, honestly it makes me sad that so much is gone and what remains has been changed so much. Walking through the buildings and around the yard you find evidence of old tracks or maybe the foundation of a building. I wonder what those tracks and buildings were used for in the past. Over the past few months the city ripped out the street that runs alongside the yard in order to put in new storm drainage and rebuild the street. We saw them pull a huge number of old ties out of the dirt, it was clear that the road followed the path of what used to be an old track heading East.
