TOPEKA — Ever since it closed, the Welda Santa Fe Railway depot as been a monument to transportation – and as a monument, it’s been transporting. The Anderson County Review reported that the old depot has moved for the third time. The Wwelda depot is now on the east side of the Great Overland Station in north Topeka. The depot building was moved to Topeka in November from a farm about east of Overbrook. The depot was part of the estate of railroad collector Marvin Robertson, who died in September 2007. The depot was closed in the 1960s and was moved to an Ottawa lumber yard, which used the depot for storage. He bought the depot from the lumber yard. The Topeka group is developing a railroad park at the Great Overland Station, which is the former Union Pacific passenger station.
Thursday, Jan. 13, 7:30 a.m.
