The Beginning – Waynoka Station

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The Beginning

The First Depot - 1887

The Round House - 1908

Huge naval gun bound for the west coast.

The Rail Yard - 1908

The Reading Room

A Reading Room/dormitory was built for the train crews.

The giant turntable.

1923 – The large 120′ turntable in the foreground routed the big locomotives into the roundhouse bays for maintenance and repairs. When Waynoka became a division point on the Santa Fe Railroad in 1910, the roundhouse was enlarged from 10 bays to 16. Each new bay was 132′ deep to accommodate the 110′ Mallet engines. Waynoka’s rail yards became the largest in the State of Oklahoma. Photo taken from the roundhouse rood by D.B. Davidson

Oil and water derricks near the roundhouse.

1950’s – Santa Fe’s first engine, the Cyrus K. Holliday. Checking out locomotive Number One are children of a railroader boilermaker. The engine was put into service for the Santa Fe Railroad in Topeka, KS in 1869.

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