This Week in Odessa History

Odessa’s excellent train service ended abruptly in early 1929, with the opening of the Great Northern Railway’s Cascade Tunnel.

With shorter operating time, the railroad eliminated several stops for its express trains. From then on, Odessa was left with only local service, one west-bound train in the morning and the other east-bound in the afternoon.

The Record reported the changes which were taking place in its issue of January 31, 1929:

Odessa will be one of the towns that will have no reason to rejoice over the Great Northern Railways’ great engineering feat in boring an eight-mile tunnel t...