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Charlie,
Your photo is of the ‘replacement’ depot. Built after the original collapsed into a salt mine.
The photo with the business car train shows the train parked by “a” freight house…not the depot.
At Hutchinson, when I worked there in the late 70’s….I think I remember an older freight house just to the west
of the depot. I could be making that up??? As many times as I checked the yard….I couldn’t remember the street overpass. Not to say there wasn’t (isn’t) one…I just don’t remember. I worked in the ‘new’ passenger depot, as in your photo. The Agency office was in the center of the building, the operator did have a bay window (in the new depot), and the Traffic Office was in the east end with a separate entrance, which your photo shows.
In the photo with the train, you can see the concrete passenger platform where the photographer is standing.
This was just outside the bay window and was longer than the length of the ‘new’ depot.
Also, in your photo of the ‘new’ depot, you can see the old freight house in the background! Now that I have FINALLY
enlarged the photo…….Ha, Ha. To me, that says: Hutchinson.
Maybe…I should trust my memory more often???
Gary