The Freight Depot area originally had 7 tracks, numbered from 1-7 from the main line. Tracks 1&2 were parallel, then a 900' wooden platform at car floor height, then tracks 3 & 4 before the Freight House. Tracks 5 &6 were close to one another on the north side of the freight house and finally track 7 (from 1923 Sanborn map). The Freight House itself was 450' long, enough to have 10-11 cars at its doors on track 4 with more beside those. Track #4 was removed by 1950 when the above track plan was made. By 1977 #5 disappeared and industries moved to the site.

1977 Cick Book

Between 1990 and 2000, all but one track were removed.

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	1918 photo of the southeast corner, Walter Anderson Collection.
	The same photo in color, from a postcard, with lesser detail. Wichita State University, University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
	Walter Anderson collection.
	1978 photo by Scott Thomas.
	The Kansas snow chills this 1939 photo, Walter Anderson collection.
	The northeast corner, 1978 photo by Scott Thomas
	Looking toward the east with heavy 1941 traffic being loaded and unloaded. Walter Anderson collection.

I have been trying to recreate the LCL (Less than Car Load) traffic that would have visited the Emporia Freight House. Keith Jordah has provided the following from Circular 385, "Merchandise Schedules and LCL Freight Service," dated 11/1/46. These LCL routes departed or terminated in Emporia and served:

Wiggam to Argentine	Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays	Train 66
Strong City to Osborne	Daily (or DES)	Train 75
Saffordville to Osborne	Wednesdays	Train 59 (Chic-NCal Frt) 5:15p
Olpe to Moline	Wednesdays and Fridays	Mixed Train 96, 6:30a
Kansas City to Emporia	Daily (or DES)	Train 35 (KC-Denver Frt) 10:40p
Topeka to Emporia	Daily (or DES)	Train 97
Kansas City to Emporia	Daily	Train 27 Antelope, 12:55a