Railroad Locationless: Depots Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Dan & Janet on 08-Apr-02. Waypoint GC4A5A

Naugatuck, CT
This was a train depot when I was growing up. Then the local newspaper set up in here for a couple decades. Now it is a museum and an office for the Chamber of Commerce.

This depot is located in Sedalia, MO and is no longer active.

Kudos and credit to PurplePeople for pointing this old station out in Princeton-by-the-Sea, California (south of San Francisco and just north of Half Moon Bay). I could never figure out why this building seemed so out of place--it's a thick concrete building, but with an added-on Chinese tile roof, sitting kind of in the middle of the highway. Then PurplePeople placed a cache here with a little bit of its history. To quote him (them?) from GCR5P2:

"The remodels and glazed tiles cover what was once a railroad station. From 1907 to 1920 the Ocean Shore Railroad ran here, pushing south from San Francisco down the San Mateo coast. This was the station for Princeton Harbor, at the north end of the Granada residential development.

"In those days there was no breakwater for the harbor, it was only built after WWII. Fishing boats could do a good business here most of the year, shipping their catch to SF on the train, but southwest winds in winter made the anchorage a death trap lee shore."

This is the former NC&StL Depot in Pegram, Tennessee. Located on on the side of Highway U.S. 70 at the intersection of State Route 241.

This Cheatham County settlement was earlier named Pegram Station for George Scott Pegram,
an early settler. The Nashville and Northwestern Railroad built a depot here around 1860 on its
line west which then ended at Kingston Springs.



[This entry was edited by LSUMonica on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 11:09:11 PM.]

The Newfoundland Railway Station now houses The Railway Coastal Museum the single most significant reminder of the glory days of the Newfoundland Railway.
This very distinctive building was designed here, and built of Newfoundland granite.
The 100 year old train station is located at 495 Water Street West in St. John’s Newfoundland. It occupies the completely restored old Station and houses over 100 exhibits and displays.
Thanks for the cache.
ECT Hikers

This was the Railroad Depot of the Railway Station near my hometown Wangen in Germany.
Since 10 year it belongs to a theatre
Thanks for the nice idea and greetings from Germany
Darkghost

Providence & Worcester Railroad, 1847 to present.
The beautiful station in Uxbridge Massachusetts is no longer an active passenger depot, but the building was restored a few decades ago for a savings bank which moved to new quarters this year. A realty firm now uses the depot for office space.

Here's an old train depot which currently serves as a museum in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina. We were disappointed that this was closed on the day of our visit to the area -- it looks interesting. The exterior of the building is beautifully restored, so we can only imagine that the inside must be really cool. We'll be back to visit this one!

This depot is now used as an Store, you can buy lamps here.
It is locatet near the railway in Mayen/Germany about 200 m away from the west-station.
In the Picture you can see the backside with the ramp.


chloderic and the Commander

Today I found this old railroad depot in a village near Cologne/Germany. At the moment it is used as a storehouse.

Greetings
Thoto

Located in Newport Rhode Island. Still used as a scenic tourist railroad, as well as a dinner train in the summer.

The Michigan Central Railroad station located in Detroit, Michigan, was built in 1913. It was designed by the firm of Warren and Westmoreland, Reed and Stem. It is located at 2405 West Vernor Avenue and overlooks Roosevelt Park. It is of Beaux-Arts Classical design. It has stood empty for thirty years while city fathers discussed what it could be used for. Last year's wish was to develop the bottom eight floors for a new central police station and rent out the upper floors. In early 2005, the depot was used for a movie set. The film "The Island" was shot on locations around the depot.

This is an old Canadian Pacific station in Toronto, Canada known as Summerhill Station. It was constructed in 1881, but was converted into an upscale wine/liquor store several years ago. I understand that many of the wine shelves are on rubber legs that help reduce vibration from the trains that still pass by.

Flagler Station: Over-sea Railway Historeum in Key West.

In 1905, Henry M. Flagler decided to undertake his most daring, expensive endeavor: to link the island city of Key West with the rest of the Florida mainland via railroad. Most said it couldn't be done, some even referred to it as "Flagler's Folly." Flagler was one of the wealthiest men in the world, having been Rockefeller's business partner at Standard Oil Company, and it is estimated that he spent $30 million (in 1905 dollars!) of his own money to fund the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. Seven years and 130 miles later, the first train arrived in Key West from Homestead on January 22, 1912.

Flagler Station takes visitors on a journey back to Old Key West, giving them firsthand historical accounts of what it was like to live in Key West back then, what it was like to be a worker on the Railway That Went to Sea, and what it was like to ride the train via video recreations. Visitors are able to walk through an actual Florida East Coast Railway train car as part of the exhibit. Flagler never lived to see the demise of his beloved railroad. He died just months after the first train arrived in Key West, and years before the devastating Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which washed out the fill supporting the tracks, swept away two locomotive engines, and killed an estimated 400 people.

This is an old Amtrak line located along route 5 in Wallingford, CT. It now serves as a pizzeria. They attached an old car to it for some additional seating.

Currently the Old Depot Museum located at 4 Martin Luther King Street in Selma, Alabama, this depot was constructed in 1891 and served L & N Railroad.

New Milford Station. New Milford, CT USA

Now the Chamber of Commerce.

This is the Lexington Depot, in Lexington, MA. It is now the home of the Lexington Historical Society. The Minute Man Bike Path now runs where the tracks were, from Arlington to Bedford, and runs right under the sheltered part of the back of the building.

DeKalb IL

Mårsø Station (Mårsø railroad depot)
Denmark
Build 1899 by Odsherreds jernbane (OHJ)
Since 1980 private recidence.

http://www.geocities.com/baja/trails/1530/rly/maa1.html

The Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum
Water Valley Casey Jones
Railroad Museum
105 Railroad Avenue
Water Valley, MS 38965

Date approximately built was in the 1870.

You may also go to the website http://www.watervalley.net/users/caseyjones/home.htm and get all the information about Casey Jones and the railroad.

The Cloverleaf Depot is located in Maumee, Ohio on the Wolcott House Museum Site. It was orignally located near Uptown Maumee, about 2 miles from its current location. It was built in 1880, and currently serves as a museum of local railroad history.

The old railroad depot of Voelklingen, a city in Germany. The new one is situated only a few yards away...
This old depot now contains a restaurant, the local tourist office (the old steel works of Voelklingen is an UNESCO world culture heritage since 1994 !) and a small hall for cultural events. A very nice cache ! THX !

Canadian Northern Railway Station - Calgary Canada

We found the old railway depot this afternoon quite by accident as we were looking for old rail lines that have been abandoned. The old Canadian Norhtern Railway Depot in Calgary is still standing and currently houses a fine arts group. Check out the pictures from the site. TFTH.

Found this one in the south side of the river in front of Lisbon.
Now its used by the Portuguese Red Cross.

Seixal, Portugal

This old railway station building in Franschhoek, South Africa, is now a Deli/Restaurant called Truffles.
Franschhoek, meaning French Corner, was the final destination for many French Hugenots fleeing religious persecution in France in 1778.
They started a successful wine industry in this valley.

This is the old Webster Groves Depot. It is along what is now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe RR. It is no longer used as a depot but now houses the huge model railroad layout of the Big Bend Model Railroad Club. If you live in St. Louis you must come see this clubs layout near Christmas time. It is fantastic.

This is such a wonderful little R and R depot. It is located in Arcade New York and still functions as a tourist attraction and some light railroad commerce. According to the website it was chartered on May 23rd, 1917.

For more info visit this link:

http://www.anarr.com/

TFTC!

Szuchie.

We found this Depot in Austria

greetings from switzerland

Very nice old station in Bourne Texas. It was relocated to this spot and is now used as a store. These people are taking care of this one.

Found the converted passenger depot in Painted Post, NY. Now being used as a local historical muesum. The Depot was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. It provided passenger and freight service in the Southern Tier. The pre-fabricated building was delivered on rail and erected on its current site in Painted Post in 1881-1882. The depot was used by the railroad until 1954. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It has now been restored and equipped to house the Town of Erwin Museum Collection.

This is the old railroad-depot in Muenster, it is not in use any more ( an ICE would really not fit in there

Greetings from Germany
Schnueffelnasen

This is the Union Station off of Rt 40, in Brownsville, PA. There were a couple store fronts in the building. It is now abandoned, in the part of the town that they call "The Haunted Neck of Brownsville". Enjoy the photos.

This enormous five-story building of brick, granite, and marble was built in 1927-28 by the Monongahela Railway Company. At its heyday passenger trains departed every 20 minutes. In recent years it was operated by Conrail (until 1993).


Thanks for the hunt, that makes kill #161 for us.

TEAM COPYCAT
California, PA

This is a 1900 train station located in Oneonta, N.Y. Formerly used by U & D Railroad and New York Central Railroad. Now a popular resturant. Took pictures while they were closed.

Located in Alvin, Tx used as museum. 1907

This picture is of the Southern Railway Depot building in Knoxville, TN

It was built in 1903.

It was designed by Southern Railway architect Frank P.
Milburn, who had built train stations across the South.

Mail, express, telegraph, dining rooms and baggage areas were in the station's lower level. Ticket offices and segregated waiting rooms were in the upper level. A modernization project in 1945 did away with the station's
chimneys and its once-magnificent clock tower, which appeared to be in structural difficulty.

Architectural features that remain include corbel-stepped gables, arched windows, fireplaces featuring inscriptions by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, coffered ceilings in the former waiting rooms and the old restaurant on the ground level.

Passenger service stopped in 1970, leaving the building vacant. It and suffered fire damage and vandalism until it was purchased in 1988 by the Southern Station Partnership.

The station was renovated in 1989, and a year later it won a first-place Renovation Award from Commercial Renovation Magazine. Today the upstairs serves as the architectural offices of Bullock Smith & Partners. The rest of the building is used for various office space.

The Cowan Railroad Depot once served as the last stop and preparation area before trains were pulled over the "mountain", and through the tunnel on L&N Railroad's pusher operation. Today CSX Railroad run's the same operation with preparation taking place further down the line.

The Cowan Depot now serves as a railroad museum for the area. For more information see this http://www.visitcowan.com/attractions.html .

Found it in Solingen, it was the old Main Station, some years ago it lives refugees there.

Now it should be restaurated and an Restaurant and Hotel should be build.

this is the rail road depot were thomas edison use to stop at. this is were he saved the station masters boy and to thank edison the station master taught him how to use the telograph. now it is a museum.

Le Grand California depot, built in the 1920's for produce transport, is not only used for city storage.

Kauklahti depot is located in Espoo in Finland. Station has been renovated and it is used now as an antique shop. There is also a residence.

Exchange Station, Liverpool, UK

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway & East Lancashire Railways opened Exchange station on Tithebarn Street, Liverpool on 13th May 1850. The first line into the station served Bury via Bolton and Wigan whilst the second line came in from Preston. At its peak the station had ten platforms with services to Scotland, Blackpool & Windermere. During the Second World War it suffered extensive damage, and has been in decline afterwards. It closed on 20th April 1977, when it was owned by British Rail (London Midland Region). On closure it was replaced by the new underground Northern Line from Southport, Ormskirk & Kirby, going through the City Centre to Hunts Cross. This connects with the underground loop of the Wirral line serving New Brighton, West Kirby & Hooton (as well as the main Lime Street terminal in Liverpool). Moorfields station, at the intersection of the Northern & Wirral lines is only a few yards from the front of the original Exchange station.
The station frontage, once a hotel, and a listed building, is now the entrance to Mercury Court office complex. The rear of the station now forms part of a large NCP car park. Several of the original walls are still standing and can be seen from the car park and along Pall Mall.

Location: RAILWAY-STATION MARIANSKE LAZNE
State: CZECH REPUBLIC (WEST BOHEMIA)
Utilization: DEPOT OUT OF ORDER

Greetings from Czech - LIFEBOOK & PETRA

This very nice triangular shaped "alter Bahnhof Oberkassel" is center of the Belsenplatz, a historic location on the left-Rhine-Side of Düsseldorf, capital of Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany.
Historc picture from internet:(http://www.alter-bahnhof.net/.
As you read in the Info http://www.geschichtswerkstatt-duesseldorf.de/historischestextepublikationen/strassennamen/50410595d30f91e1a.html the train-station is buildt in 1898 after building the Oberkassel-bridge (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?IID=5b242579-1d97-43d4-8dd9-88cfff7bf1da&LID=11297182). After 2nd World War the station was reanimated for personal-transport but only for a short time.
Since the 1970's it's used for Restaurant and Beer-Garden (http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/dtonight/locations/bars_lounges/105557 sorry: retired) with often changing owners.
When I took the photos I git thirsty but unfortunately the actual pub is closed since only a few days. I hope it will reopen again soon.
Greetings Mapweazle.

This little depot is on the Monon rail on 38th St. next to the Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis. The rail has been converted to a rail trail. You can read about this trail here.
http://www.indygreenways.org/monon/monon.htm
The depot is now an office for Indy Parks.
TFTC!

This old depot is now being used for a thrift store, it is in Lincolnton, NC. The old railroad tracks are being converted into a rail trail to walk and run on.

The Union Station located in Oklahoma City, Ok waa the primary station for freight and passengers used for over 30 years, and it now is the home of CENTRAL OKLAHOMA TRANSPORTATION & PARKING AUTHORITY, Transit Excutive offices.

Érigée en 1924, la gare du Canadien Pacifique de Trois-Rivières, située au 1075 rue Champflour et classée gare ferroviaire patrimoniale en 1991 par le gouvernement du Canada, est maintenant utilisée pas la Commission scolaire du Chemin-du-Roy, comme centre de coordination pour l’éducation des adultes.

Built in 1924 on Champflour street, #1075, the CPR station which was classified as Patrimonial train station by the Canadian government in 1991, is now used by the Chemin-du-Roy, school board, as a coordination centre for adults education.

This Railroad Station is located in Coleman, Florida on Rte. 301. It was built 1 block north of it present location in 1895. It is now being used as part of an antique store. It is open to the public, at no charge, along with other historic buildings. The building was given to the City of Coleman. They moved it to the town dump and eventually it was moved to its present location.

The Iron Horse Grill (now a restaurant) used to be the Pleasantville train station building at the turn of the century. Metro North trains still run by including the train John takes to the city daily, but people now just wait at the outdoor platform.


http://www.ironhorsegrill.com/

My photos include the Sept 22, 2002 NYtimes restaurant review posted in their window as well as a shot from the north looking at the building with and without GPS.

The address is 20 Wheeler Ave, Pleasantville, NY. The geocaching map puts the GPS coords a couple of blocks off, but the google maps are right on.

This station is situated in Hermanus, South Africa. The station was built in the early 1900's. The odd thing is though that the station was actually never used as a station. Sir William Hoy, the General Manager of the South African Railways at that stage, stopped the railway line from being built to Hermanus to ensure that the natural beauty of Hermanus would stay unspoilt. Currently the station acts as a tourist info centre.

This is the Chelsea Michigan train depot.

Found in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. This Canadian Pacific Railway depot was builded in 1887 in downtown St-Jean on the railway between Montreal and Halifax, NS. Thanks for this cache!!

The first railway station built in 1879 at the Credit Valley Junction north of Britannia Road, first used by the Credit Valley Railway, and then by the CPR. In 1914 a new station was built, and the original station was bought by Ephraim Evans and moved to its present location at 78 William Street. Designated under the terms of the Ontario Heritage Act.

I was browsing the locationless caches and remembered this station from doing a prevous multi cache in the area.

I took some photos with gpsr just as it was getting dark, and I had a couple of pics from a few days ago in daylight.

The building is being used as living quarters for a family. It is located in Streetsville, Ontario, Canada

This depot is located in Canonsburg, PA, build in 1870. The original railroad was the Chartiers Railway. Currently, it is the home to the Son's of Italy.

In 1872, M.K.T. Railroad built a line through Indian Territory. It honored a Creek Chief, soldier and statesman, Samuel Checote by naming it's railhead "Checote Switch.

The Town of Checotah was born when the railroad came through this territory.

Even though the trains don't stop anymore and the depot was a museum and now a restaurant, Katy's Depot Family Restaurant. Farming and ranching are still important to Checotah. Our heritage lives on in Pow-wows, reenactments, festivals and rodeos. "Steerwrestling Capital of the World" is now Checotah's byline, thanks to our many rodeo champions. Join us in Checotah ..., "a town so colorful Wrangler named a whole line of shirts after it!"

Landing Train Station
Roxbury Township, New Jersey
Built in 1881, by the Morris and Essex Railroad. Later acquired by the DL&W. Abandoned by NJ Transit. When service was restored, NJ Transit built a new park and ride nearby.

This is the old railwaystation of Lilla Edet, a little town in the western part of Sweden. Nowadays it is used by the municipal leisuretime administration (fritidsförvaltning). It was bulit in 1906.
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I found this train depot on the side of Rt9A in Croton On Hudson, N.Y. There are 4 cars rigged together, I believe that a reality company works in there. There is some kind of buisness in there. Sorry Pic is kind of bad. There is no where to stand to get a good pic. Thanks for the cache.
Crazyway

This depot was part of the Rock Island system and now houses several business, including a law office.
It sits on Wright Street near downtown Iowa City.
A little history:
On February 5, 1853, the railroad incorporators saw Ariticles of Association executed under the laws of Iowa to create the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company with authority to construct and operate a railroad from Davenport to Council Bluffs.
Iowa Citians, fearful that the railroad might not reach their town, then the capitol of the state, decided to post a $50,000 bonus to the builders if the line was finished and a train run into the station on or before midnight December 31, 1855.
The line to Muscatine was finished first and on November 20, 1855 the first train ever to operate in Iowa departed from Davenport with six crowded coaches for the run to Muscatine.
But the builders had not forgotten Iowa City's $50,000. On December 31, in a temperature of 30 degrees below zero, the rails were just 1,000 feet short of their goal. Crews worked feverishly to finish the job. Ties were dropped on the staked earth and rails spiked hurriedly in place. Finally, with only minutes to go, a signal was given for the engine to approach. It couldn't move. It was frozen and dead on center. With the help of every available man, chains attached to the pilot and pinch bars under the wheels, the workmen pinched and pushed to slide the engine to the station seconds before the old year rang out.

This depot is located on the old Cotton Belt Route in downtown Tyler, Texas and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The depot is now being used by the Tyler Transit Authority.

En 1890, Le Canadian Pacific Railway vient de racheter les lignes du Vermont Central et de l’International Railway. Le « Pacifique Canadien », comme le disent les francophones, débute alors son service de trains de Montréal vers Halifax par Sherbrooke. La gare est installée sur une rue appelée Terrasse CPR. La Gare du Canadien Pacifique sera réaménagée vers 1920. À partir de 1928, le réseau du Québec Central installera son terminus sherbrookois dans cette gare. Cette gare appartient maintenant à la Iron Road Railways. La Ville de Sherbrooke en fera bientôt un marché public.

Here in Germany by Aachen / Eschweiler Aue

This is the Machias Depot in Snohomish Co., WA (USA). Built in the 1890's, it now houses a Bike Rental Shop and Concession Stand for the Centennial Trail. The Centennial Trail is constructed on the original railway right-of-way built north of Snohomish by the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railroad (S.L.&E.) in 1889. In 1892 the Sumas Branch line between Snohomish and Arlington was purchased from S.L.&E. by Northern Pacific and later sold to Burlington Northern in 1970. Operation ceased on the Snohomish-Hartford section (of which Machias is part) in 1987. Machias is located just outside of Lake Stevens, WA.

Found this one in Ely, Nevada.

The Last Bonanza Railroad
Nevada Northern Railway Company
1905-1983

Ely was named in honor of Smith Ely, president of the Selby Copper Mining & Smelting Co.; which was founded on the site of the present Ely's City Hall in 1878. By 1902 extensive copper deposits were found in the area. Mark Requa, son of a wealthy Comstock silver magnate, owned the Eureka & Palisade Railroad, a narrow gauge in Eureka. Requa was interested in bolstering the sagging economy of the E&P and explored the local copper properties at Ely. He organized the White Pine Copper Company - constructing a route that would require 140 miles of track construction. In 1904 White Pine Copper Co. merged into other mining properties and organized as the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. ( NCCCo)



1905-1906 - Construction at Cobre began and tracks reached Ely and a gala "Railroad Days" celebration took place. The branch line was completed from McGill Junction to McGill.

1907-1908 - Construction of the McGill smelter began. NN tracks reached Lane City, Keystone mining district, Veteran Mine and Kimberly. Passenger & express service begins to McGill. The Hiline is completed.

1920 - Regular Pullman passenger service discontinued.

1938 - Local passenger and express trains discontinued.

1948 - Dieselization of ore trains begins and most Kennecott ( successor to NCCCo. ) steam engines retired.

1978 - Ruth district mines are closed & ore trains to McGill are discontinued.

1983 - Last NNRy freight operated in East Ely to Cobre.



In 1983, the White Pine Historical Railroad Foundation was organized to receive, administer, and develop an operating railroad museum. Kennecott made substantial donations consisting of: over 32 miles of track, East Ely Complex of machine shops, roundhouse, yards, and rolling stock as well as the McGill Depot.

In September of 1986, Engine #40 was steamed up for the first time since 1964 and pronounced to be in perfect mechanical condition. A new era thus was born as the newly dubbed "Ghost Train of Old Ely" began chugging along once familiar rails to thrill generations. Here is your invitation to come to Ely and experience the nostalgia of an era gone by.

Old Ikamatua Railway Depot/Station - situated on west Coast of South Island in New Zealand.

This was originally 200 metres west of the current location, but with the decline of the rail services was dismantelled and relocated to its current position.

It now serves as a cookhouse, lounge & laundry for the Ikamatua Camp Ground, situated behind the Ikamatua Hotel

Nice little spot!!

The "Estació de frança" is the more important stations of train of the Barcelona city. At the moment the majority of the destinies of Europe leaves from this depot.
Greetings from Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.

Gateway center Railroad Locationless Reverse cache (depot). Now an office, this former train depot is in Brea, CA.

The E.L. Greenway Welcome Center, Warner Robins, Georgia, held an opening celebration of its Caboose Exhibit and Century Tree Commemoration. The Greenway Welcome Center inhabits the “new†train station in Warner Robins, constructed in 1944 by Southern Railway at a cost of $20,000 to replace the wooden structure that had been used for the previous 57 years by the community of Wellston. After Southern Railway closed its Warner Robins office in 1970, it leased the building to the city, and Warner Robins Art Association refurbished it to house their Train Station Art Gallery and Gift Shop. Southern deeded the train depot to the City of Warner Robins in 1994, and renovations were accomplished in 1997. The building now serves as Welcome Center for the City of Warner Robins, and houses the Bureau of Civic Affairs, the Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Keep Warner Robins Beautiful program.

We found this small station in Wewelsburg (Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany). It is for a long time out of operation and without rails.

Thanks for the cache
Ulrike and Rainer

Railroad Depot in:
Cowan, Tennessee
It is now a Museum of sorts and is only open on a limited basis. I remember going here a long, long time ago and the inside was very cool.
Flyingmoose

This is the Campbell Street Station. It is a bar located near the VIA rail station in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. This used to be the Sarnia Rail Depot location before a new building was added behind the bar on the tracks.

Glasgow, Ky. Old railroad depot.

This is the historic depot at Corinth, Mississippi where a epic hand to hand battle was fought in 1863. It is now being converted to a civil war museum.

This railway station is located in Vernon, B.C., Canada. There used to be a passenger train that travelled from the coast and headed east across Canada however no passenger trains now use this line. It is still used for freight. The station itself is no longer used for that purpose but has changed hands several times over the past years. It has held beauty salons, fish and chip shop, counselling offices, design groups, law offices, and also is the home of the Downtown Vernon Association.

I set out in search of the CPR Ignace, Ontario depot. It was one of the rarer type that was located between the east and west bound tracks. In its place I found Don Hay a CPR engineer waiting for his train to arrive and who was kind enough to point out the old location plus all that remained of the engine watering station. I have included a wall mural of the station that once was...

Depot located in Peoria,Il next to the Illinois River.

this is holmesburg junction depot. It is located at Rhawn and state road on the amtrax septa rail line. It is a functional train depot for the surrounding industries. I used to play on these tracks when I was a kid growing up in NE philly. I loved to watch the train come and go pulling long lines a freight. I hope you like the pictures.

The Santa Fe Railroad built its depot in Littleton after about one year of service, in 1888. Originally the structure stood just north of the Denver & Rio Grande Depot. Current use is as an historical part of the city park

Skystyler and I had this bright idea we could snag over 100 geocaches in one day. Nope. We ended up with 59. Not too bad. If YOU want to go for 100, I suggest very careful planning, the summer solstice, plotting a map with every turn, AND finding out which are in Blue Spruce Trees (what’s up with Denver and blue spruce??) and which side of the creek or river they are on. Had it not been for four flat tires on our mountain bikes, we might have gotten 75. We did have a lot of fun however. This was #49 of 59. Vort.

This is the South Cle Elum Depot of the Milwaukee, Chicago, St Paul and Pacific Railway. This depot is under restoration and will become a museum once completed. The exterior, I found interesting, is painted the original orange and maroon from the 1920 time period. That is when this line was electricfied. The blurb from the home page of the restoration project (www.milwelectric.org):

It is the vision of the Cascade Rail Foundation, in partnership with Washington State Parks, that the South Cle Elum site, in the Iron Horse State Park, will become a significant resource for the region and the nation. The site is dedicated to the interpretation and preservation of the history of the Milwaukee Road's western extension and electrification. The Milwaukee is considered one of the most significant and cherished railroads ever to exist in the United States.

The depot itself is from 1908, and was restored to 1920 standards, which is when the line switched from steam to electric. The electric sub-station is still on this site, though it has not yet been restored. In its day, the electricification of this line was a major advance.

"This depot, built in 1914, was the second station built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway in McBee, SC. The town, the most successful of those established along Seaboard's Columbia-to-Cheraw line after it was completed in 1900, grew so quickly that a new depot became a high priority by the end of the decade. This depot was both a passenger and freight depot until it closed in 1971. Now the McBee Library and Railroad Museum, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998."

This is railstation/depot of Tallinn-Väike. It is in Tallinn, Estonia, next to Türi street. Place marked on the 15.10.2005. at 12:40.

This is the old Depot in Springville, NY. It's now a Gift shop.

The old depot is part of the old down town Shreveport area. The depot is now a resturant. It was an old KCS depot that was built back in the early 20's. TFTC

Crawfish & Family

Thought I new of one in Englewood but when we got there it was still empty. Was moving on and ran across this one in Littleton. So stopped and got this cache after all. We looked for history on the building but none was found. Still at its original location. The tracks are next to it and still active rails. The added light rail system also runs next to this old depot. But history has past and now this great old depot is called "Romancing the Bean" a coffee house. The building is still in great shape as the photos show. Baba Looey holding the GPS. THFC!!!

This RR station is located in Kingsville Ontario Canada. The station was built in 1888 and was originaly serviced by the Lake Erie, Essex, Detroit River Railway which was built by Hiram Walker to bring people from Detroit to the Mattawa Resort in Kingsville. The station is used for community events, meetings and can be rented for private functions.

We found the Blyth Depot of the old Grand Trunk Railway at a commercial leather goods factory outside of Blyth, Ontario, Canada. The owners of the factory had purchased the old depot and then moved it to their property where it is currently being used as a "vintage store". As you will see in the photos they have added some other railway station antiques such as a luggage wagon and a milk jug to their display. The building was moved a few miles from its original location in downtwn Blyth without being dismantled.
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This depot in downtown Rock Springs, Wyoming was built in 1900 and belongs to the UPRR. It now is a place for seniors to meet in one of the rooms. It is in good condition and well kept care of.

This is North Bay, Ontario's old Canadian National Railway station. It is currently being restored/renovated and is available for lease. (Any takers?) The CN station is only four or five blocks from the Canadian Pacific Railway station, logged previously on this cache, and now home to the North Bay Area Museum.

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This is the former St Kilda Railway Station. It used to be the terminus of the St Kilda suburban train line in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The line was closed down, changed from broad guage (5'3")to standard guage (4'8"), and converted to a tram line. The station buildings are now the home to several eateries. It is appropriately called "Termini".

Gare trouvée dans un très beau quartier dans le nord de Chicago. Ce trouve près d'un petit marché.

I found two historic depots today.

The first depot is the site of the former North Bend Depot (N 47 29.814, W 121 46.989) in North Bend, Washington. In the summer of 1911, a 20' x 56' wooden depot was built about 50 feet south of this sign. The former depot's current use is a place to pause along the Snoqualmie Valley Trail.

The second depot, three miles away from the former North Bend Depot, is the Snoqualmie Depot (N 47 31.727, W 121 49.517) in Snoqualmie, Washington. It was built in 1890 and is the oldest continuously operating depot in Washington State. Its current use is a railroad museum and bookstore.

Thank you for maintaining this interesting locationless cache for over three years.

This former depot is in Baker City, Oregon USA. It is being used by the railroad as office space.

This is the Oregon City train depot. The old bepot looks like is is going to be moved here soon. I have included pics of the old depot too.

i used to be a railroad depot but now use as a musium. they move it from les Boules, Québec, Canada to Mont-Joli (approx 20 km).

i found it in Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada

thanks for the cache !

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This was a railway depot in a local town where I grew up. It was always just sitting adjacent to the tracks and wasn't used for a number of years. It was then moved up closer to main street, set on a jaunty angle. It is in Glencoe, Ontario. It was built in 1904 and originally serviced the Grand Trunk & Wabash Railway. It is now used by the Kiwanis and Rotary Club to gain revenue by renting it out for community functions.

This depot in Grapevine, Texas, USA was part of the Union Pacific network, and now houses the Grapevine Tourist Information Center.

#110. This is the old train depot in Lebanon, NJ. It is in good shape and was originally owned by a group of railroad enthusiasts but is now home to the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Museum offices. Beautiful old building. Too bad they don't build them like this anymore. There is still passenger service here, but the depot is not used as a terminal. The passengers are at the mercy of Mother Nature while waiting for the train. Tickets are no longer sold here either. There are other old depots along this line, all used for something other than a depot.

This former Depot is located in Upper Falls, Newton, MA on Chestnut Street. It is now used as a cafe. The Depot was built in 1852 the year that Otis Pettee started the Charles River Railroad. A small history of the village and an old picture of the Depot can be seen in this PDF pamphlet: http://www.ci.newton.ma.us/Planning/hist/Upper%20%20Falls.pdf

Lee's Summit, Missouri. Built 1905, 100 years old, and now is used as a museum as well as city chamber of commerce.