Looking north, elevator seen north of the depot.

Looking southeast, Rod Riley photos, circa 1973.

Howard had a house track serving an elevator, the depot, a dock, in later years an alfalfa mill, and a bulk oil dealer. The main was east of the depot. A spur southeast of the depot and entered from the north served the original hay mill and a stockyard. Burke believes that this was on the original right-of-way for the 3' gauge line built in 1879. Occasional gondolas were loaded on the house track with logs. The docks served McClure Implement Co. with farm equipment from flats and boxcars and also received hardware and feed store supplies. A tornado destroyed the old mill, but the elevator and modern alfalafa mill remain. The Howard stockpens had a 14 car capacity, 6 pens, hydrant, truck chute, and a 5 ton scale.

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Howard had a population of 808 in 2000.

Two old ATSF cars, an Fe-K and Fe-25 are here. View them.