12:21am No. 23 Westbound Grand Canyon Limited
12:29am No 19 Westbound The Chief
12:49am No. 9 Westbound Centennial State
1:12am No. 27 Westbound The Antelope
1:35am No. 20 Eastbound Chief
s2:32am No. 24 Eastbound Grand Canyon Limited
2:57am No. 17 Westbound SUPER CHIEF
3:26am No. 18 Eastbound Sunday and Thursday SUPER CHIEF
3:14am No. 21 Westbound Sunday and Wednesday El Capitan
3:28am No. 28 Eastbound The Antelope
4:33am No. 10 Eastbound Centennial State
11:06am No. 5 Westbound The Ranger
11:12am No. 12 Eastbound The Chicagoan
11:23am No. 7 Westbound Fast Mail Express
12:24pm No. 1 Westbound The Scout
f 2:30pm No. 3 Westbound California Limited
4:02pm No. 4 Eastbound California Limited
s 4:08 pm 4:17 pm No. 52 Eastbound Doodlebug to Emporia from Concordia ex. Sunday
s 4:08pm 4:17 pm No.. 56 Eastbound Mixed from Concordia to Emporia Sunday only
4:14pm No. 8 Eastbound Fast Mail Express
s 4:52 am No. 51 Westbound Doodlebug to Concordia from Emporia ex. Sunday
s 4:52am No.. 55 Westbound Mixed to Concordia from Emporia
5:48pm No. 2 Eastbound The Scout
7:35pm No. 6 Eastbound The Ranger
7:45pm No. 11 Westbound The Kansas Cityan
8:55pm No. 22 Eastbound Wednesday and Saturday El Capitan
An interesting meet occured daily in Strong City. The Eastbound Doodlebug and Mixed trains from Concordia arrived in Strong City just in time to allow the Eastbound Fast Mail Express to pass Strong City. The fast mail was hot on the locals tail from Neva to Strong City, a distance of four and one tenth miles. The local was seven minutes ahead of the Fast Mail at Neva and only six at Strong City. It was also interesting that the usual Doodlebug was replaced with a mixed train on Sundays. It had to be somewhat unnerveing to have the Fast Mail Express on your tail! Especially when you were in the Doodlebug.
Other photos of the depot can be found in Joe McMillian's Wheat Lines and Super Freights on page 47.
The Strong City depot still stands as a Maintenance of Way building in Strong City. If the railroad ever gives up on this as a Maintenance of Way house I believe the city will do a good job of restoring this depot. The city has already saved a Santa Fe caboose in a park beside the depot.
This is a bridge that the Santa Fe used for advertising. It is just west of Strong City.