TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover (HTML) Introduction (HTML) Executive Summary (HTML) Research to prepare historic structure reportMajor research findings Major issues identified in project agreement Recommendations for treatment or use Administrative Data (HTML) Identification of structureLocation Purpose of project and proposed treatment Estimated rehabilitation costs Funding Project phasing Related studies Cultural resource data Materials Disposition recommendations Summary of Archeological Data (HTML) Developmental History Kelso, California, and Its LegacyTranscontinental railroads in the American west The union pacific railroad (Image) Early histroy of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (Image) The reasons for a railroad company town at Kelso A union pacific system modernization program Temporary lunch room facilities Building a new depot at Kelso Description of the plans for the new Kelso Depot (Image) Kelso as a meal stop for passenger trains (Image) Company hotel and recreation facilities (Image) A 'new' Los Angeles limited (Image) Completion of the new Kelso Depot (Image) Landscaping the Depot grounds (Image) vegetation (Image) The station platform (Image) Recollections of the Kelso Depot in its early years Depression years on the Los Angeles & salt lake railroad The coming of the Diesel Depot Improvements The world war II boom years at Kelso A new section foreman for the Kelso section The postwar years Remodeling the lunch room The end of stream locomotives on the salt lake route A return of steam locomotives to Kelso ans Vicinity New facilities to service Diesel-electric locomotives Kelso during the 1950s and Early 1960s More remodeling of the lunch room The end of helper service at Kelso Lunch room headaches for management Closure of the Kelso Depot A partition Dividing the lobby from the lunch room "Running repairs" to the Kelso Depot, Employees' hotel and lunch room The coming of Amtrak An attempt to demolish the kelso Depot Routine yearly maintenance Kelso coffe shop menus The last 'running repairs' to be made in the Kelso Depot Impressions of Kelso in 1984 The closing to the Kelso lunch room The effort to preserve the Kelso Depot the local effort to preserve the Kelso Depot state government-recognized "point of historical interest" the decisions for the Bureau of land management to acquire the Kelso Depot Acquistion of the Kelso Depot by the bureau of land management transfer of the Kelso Depot to the national park system in Mojave National preserve A grave affair acknowledgements A note on source material Recommendations for further research Illustrations (PDF)List of Illustrations Illustrations with Captions Illustrations 1-12 (PDF) Appendixes Appendix A: Interstate Commerce Commission, Valuation of Railroad Property (PDF)Appendix B: Keels lunch room price lists and menus (PDF) Appendix C: "Inventory of Furniture Fixtures and Miscellaneous Equipment," Kelso Club, November 13, 1953 (PDF) Bibliography (PDF) Alternatively, the entire Historic Furnishings Report can be downloaded in a single PDF document.
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