Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
It was the beginning of the end of railroad service in 1929
The Great Northern Railway (today the BNSF) was ready to open its eight-mile-long Cascade tunnel on January 12, 1920, an engineering marvel of which all the world took note.
The railroad was looking at a larger picture than the small towns it had once turned to for business, and the larger picture didn’t include Odessa. It was the beginning of the end of rail service to the town a trend which was to continue until today, when not only is passenger service long a thing of the past, but freight operations serving the community are also only a fraction of what they once were.
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