Odessa Union Locations At Time Of Highline Merger

 

Carload Shipments Received On Marcellus Branch

Courtesy of the PNRA. 

Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for digging this out.

June 30, 1931

Marcellus Branch Revenues-1960 to 1977

Courtesy of Micheal Sol.

Railroad Fails To Move Grain

From the "Spokesman Review."

November 20, 1943

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1943 Pacific Lake Map

Coulee Flood Washes Road

From the "Spokesman Review."

December 25, 1940

1950s Lauer

1912 Lauer

Lauer

Courtesy of the Odessa Historisches Museum.

Lauer was one of the many small stations on the Milwaukee branch to Marcellus. The branch was built to tap the rich dryland wheat area north of the mainline, that might have been shipping wheat to the reasonably close Great Northern mainline further north. Most of the grain elevators on the line are still open and operated by Odessa Union Warehouse, including Lauer. In the 1970s, grain business was so good that one year they were dumping wheat into a pile. In 1984, after the railroad was abandoned, the old wooden buildings caught fire and quickly burned.

Railroad Fails To Move Grain

From the "Spokesman Review."

November 18, 1943

1969 MIlwaukee Road Eleventh Subdivision Timetable

1967 Lauer Topo Map

1912 NP and Milwaukee Public Timetables

From the "Neppel Record."

December 27, 1912

1956 Marcellus Branch Timetable

1969 Milwaukee Road Coast Division Timetable

1940s Lauer View

2008 Reiman

Trackless elevator on the old Milwaukee Road Marcellus Branch, still in use by the Odessa Union Warehouse Cooperative.

March 2008 view.

Lauer in the distance.

Milwaukee Road 1976 Condensed Profile Marcellus to Warden

1912 Marcellus Branch Map

From the "Standard Atlas of Adams County."

1912

The Town of Lauer?

From the "Standard Atlas of Adams County."

1917

Out on the Milwaukee Road Marcellus branch was this station. There was a town platted in 1917, but today only the grain elevator survives.