Partial List of Major Railroad Hospitals in the United States
By Robert S. Gillespie
These are all the major railroad hospitals of which RailwaySurgery.org is aware. They were not all in operation at the same time. Visit the Image Gallery to see pictures of most of these hospitals. Undoubtedly there were others; if you have information, please email us. This list does not include the many “emergency hospitals” located at various railroad facilities. The “emergency hospitals” were more like small clinics and not true hospitals.
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Railroad (at time of opening) |
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe |
Albuquerque, NM |
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Clovis, NM |
8th and Hinkle Streets; Sold in 1949 and converted to Central Baptist Church; old locomotive bell donated by Santa Fe for bell tower (see Santa Fe Magazine, Oct. 1953, in the Archive) |
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Las Vegas, NM |
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La Junta, CO |
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Ottawa, KS |
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Mulvane, KS |
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Topeka, KS |
Built 1898-99; expanded some time prior to 1953; 1898-99 building replaced 1953 (180 beds); another expansion some time after 1953; see photos in Gallery and article on p. 212 of The Railway Surgeon, 9/22/1896, in the Archive |
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Central of Georgia |
Savannah, GA |
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Chesapeake and Ohio |
Clifton Forge, VA |
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Huntington, WV |
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Denver and Rio Grande Western |
Salida, CO |
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Florida East Coast |
St. Augustine, FL |
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Frisco |
St. Louis, MO |
4960 Laclede Ave; now used as Parkside Tower
Nursing Home (2007) |
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Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe |
Temple, TX |
600 South 25th Street; Now Scott and White Health System; original building, now called Santa Fe Center, used as skilled nursing facility and clinic (2006) |
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Illinois Central |
Chicago, IL |
5800 Stony Island Avenue; 300 beds; became Doctors Hospital of Hyde Park; closed 2000 amid Medicare scandal |
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Paducah, KY |
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New Orleans, LA |
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Lehigh Valley |
Sayre, PA |
Now Guthrie Health system |
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Missouri-Kansas-Texas |
Parsons, KS |
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Sedalia, MO |
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Denison, TX |
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Missouri Pacific |
Little Rock, AR |
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St. Louis, MO |
1755 S. Grand Blvd.; 375 beds; now Anheuser-Busch Eye Institute/St. Louis University (2006) |
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Palestine, TX |
Originally International & Great
Northern Hospital; now vacant; conversion to low-income clinic proposed
(2007) |
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Norfolk and Western |
Norfolk, VA |
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Northern Pacific |
St. Paul, MN |
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Glendive, MT |
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Missoula, MT |
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Tacoma, WA |
801 E. Wright Ave., Opened 1905; Closed 1968; Demolished 1973 |
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Santa Fe Coast Lines |
Los Angeles, CA |
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Southern Pacific |
Sacramento, CA |
First railroad hospital – later moved to San Francisco |
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San Francisco, CA |
333 Baker (at Fell); closed 1974; Converted to Mercy Terrace senior housing in 1982-83 (2006) |
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Tucson, AZ |
Tuberculosis sanitarium |
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Houston, TX |
2015 Thomas St. Building now serves as Thomas Street Health Center (2006) |
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St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) |
Texarkana, AR |
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Texas and Pacific |
Marshall, TX |
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Wabash |
Decatur, IL |
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Moberly, MO |
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Peru, IN |
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Western Pacific |
Portola, CA |
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Compiled from multiple sources.
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