12:45am No. 20 Eastbound Chief
1:20am No. 23 Westbound Grand Canyon Limited
1:15am No. 24 Eastbound Grand Canyon Limited
1:25am No 19 Westbound The Chief
1:45am No. 9 Westbound Centennial State
2:20am No. 27 Westbound The Antelope
2:36am No. 18 Eastbound Sunday and Thursday SUPER CHIEF
2:55am No. 28 Eastbound The Antelope
3:35am No. 10 Eastbound Centennial State
3:50am No. 17 Westbound SUPER CHIEF
4:10am No. 21 Westbound Sunday and Wednesday El Capitan
10:27am No. 12 Eastbound The Chicagoan
12:05pm No. 5 Westbound The Ranger
12:22pm No. 7 Westbound Fast Mail Express
1:25pm No. 1 Westbound The Scout
3:00pm No. 4 Eastbound California Limited
3:20pm No. 8 Eastbound Fast Mail Express
3:30pm No. 3 Westbound California Limited
4:45pm No. 2 Eastbound The Scout
6:25pm No. 6 Eastbound The Ranger
8:05pm No. 22 Eastbound Wednesday and Saturday El Capitan
8:38pm No. 11 Westbound The Kansas Cityan
Newton was a very important passegner stop as you can tell from the passenger schedule. Other views of this depot can be foun in Wheat Lines and Super Ffeights on page 58. This photo shows a dirty tired red and silver F unit idling by the depot in the late 1960's. A neon Santa Fe mission cross which is only have on beams through the steamy night hours as people stand gawking at who knows what. It is a classic scene that words can not begin to describe. The platform covers have been moved to a park and now shade a prairie steamer sidelined in the park forever.
Today this depot is both a railroad station and a shopping mall. The mall fills the little extra space in the depot left by the loss of all but one passenger train. Amtrak' Southwest Chief only stops in Newton only twice a day. Both stops occur early in the moning. This leaves the depot empty during the daylight hours. While in Newton you wish that Amtrak would run just a couple more trains daily.
Newton is home to a large yard. As is shown this 1992 photograph, wheat is king in Newton.
This photo also shot in 1992 shows the locomotive service area just west of the depot. This area beggs to be modeled.
