This Week in Odessa History

BNSF trains carrying sleek new imported automobiles from Japan and Korea race through Odessa today virtually unnoticed.

The vehicles, destined for Mid-western and Eastern markets are enclosed in container cars in trains which sometimes are nearly a mile long.

A Great Northern train going through Odessa in the opposite direction 88 years ago was cause for quite a bit of excitement. It consisted of twenty-eight freight cars a each containing five new Buicks, and was enroute to Seattle, stopping at many of the stations along the way, including one at Odessa.

This report is from the Odessa Record...