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Grand Canyon Depot, also known as Grand Canyon Railroad Station, constructed in 1909-10 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in what is now Grand Canyon National Park

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Grand Canyon Depot, also known as Grand Canyon Railroad Station, constructed in 1909-10 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in what is now Grand Canyon National Park

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It is one of three remaining railroad depots in the United States built with logs as the primary structure material. The station stands 330 feet from of the south rim of the canyon, opposite the El Tovar Hotel, also built by the railroad. The depot is now the northern terminus of the excursion Grand Canyon Railway, which brings tourists to the gorge from the town of Williams, 60 miles to the south.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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2010 - 2020
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