Coffee Siding Nebraska

Former cattle-shipping siding · Sioux County · siding 1886–1958

About Coffee Siding

Coffee Siding is the site of a railroad cattle-loading siding in western Sioux County, on US 20 about a mile east of the Wyoming line and 8 miles west of Harrison. A state historical marker stands beside the highway; little else remains.

History

Charles F. Coffee, a pioneer rancher with headquarters on Hat Creek in Nebraska and Rawhide Creek in Wyoming, shipped the first trainload of cattle from Harrison to Chicago on August 15, 1886. To avoid higher Wyoming freight rates, a siding was built here just inside Nebraska: 1,023 feet of track and seven cattle pens, where up to three trains of at least 14 cars could load at once while herds grazed on the Niobrara to the south. It became a major shipping point for Nebraska and Wyoming ranchers, was used into the 1940s, and was removed in 1958.

Things to see

the Coffee Siding historical marker on US 20

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