Mystery: Where Did the Public Park By the UP Tracks Go?

[Anonymous]

There was one at NE hwy 92. I think NE-DOT took the land when they built an overpass over US30 & the tracks

[K. P. Harrier]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

Can you narrow down where you think you were? Omaha to North Platte is a 'fer piece....[:)][:)][:)]

It was probably between Grand Island and Columbus.

[mudchicken]

now the "Union Pacific" rest area along I-80 east of Kearney, east of the Gateway Arch?....That double track is now a 4-5 tracks wide racetrack....If it was located on UPRR R/W, it's now full of tracks with no room left for a park anymore. Can you narrow down where you think you were? Omaha to North Platte is a 'fer piece....[:)][:)][:)]

[fuzzybroken]

Hmmm... sounds like a lot of the Waysides here in Wisconsin -- predecessors on 2-lane highways to the I-system's rest areas. WISDOT has closed quite a few of them, and neighboring rivers have swallowed up a few more.

Sorry to be of no help, but thought I'd add my [2c],
-Mark
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[K. P. Harrier]

In the early 1980s, I followed Union Pacific tracks via Highway 30 from North Platte to Omaha in Nebraska, and rested at a public park with picnic tables and benches, and high trees on the park perimeters. Recently, the route was traversed again, but the park was nowhere to be found. Does anybody know where it is at, or what happened to it?

Location description: The double-track line was on a southwest-northeast alignment, with Highway 30 on the south side of the tracks but paralleling them. The narrow park was on a north-south alignment, and south of both the tracks and highway.

Thanks.