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Because of declining passenger train travel and the rise of air travel and the Interstate Highway System, the depot was abandoned after hosting its last passenger train in 1967. [1] (The Santa Fe maintained passenger service to Tulsa until 1971, but they utilized a separate station.) [5] Tulsa Union Depot interior, under renovation
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World". [1]
Prayer Tower and Fourth National Bank of Tulsa built. Union Depot abandoned after passenger train service ceases. 1970 Tulsa Junior College established. Robert J. LaFortune becomes mayor. Population: 331,638. [30] 1971 – Tulsa Port of Catoosa opened to shipping via the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. 1972
Port of Muskogee Railroad (PMR) Sand Springs Railway (SS) South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL) Stillwater Central Railroad (SLWC) Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad (TOE) Port of Catoosa Industrial Railroad (PCIR) Tulsa–Sapulpa Union Railway (TSU) Union Pacific Railroad (UP) WFEC Railroad Company (WFEC) Verdigris Southern Railroad (VESO)
Other Class I transporters are Union Pacific Railroad, as well as the CPKC (formerly the Kansas City Southern Railway) via a short-line switch on the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad. [242] Tulsa Union Depot served Frisco, M-K-T and Santa Fe passenger trains until the 1960s.
On Nov. 8, city officials reopened the station, this time as the city's new Human Resources and Employee Wellness Center.
It was deemed significant for its association with transportation and commerce in the development of Tulsa. The first railroad had reached Tulsa in 1882; this area was first directly served in 1903 by the Midland Valley Railroad which built a combination passenger and freight depot that opened c.1904 and a freight depot in 1907.
The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a non-profit organization that honors jazz, blues and gospel musicians in the state of Oklahoma. Housed in the former Tulsa Union Depot, which it now calls the Jazz Depot, [1] the Hall of Fame is a music venue that hosts regular jazz performances.