Nostalgia & History > Depot trio: Medina OH, Mazon IL, Bovill ID

Are any still standing?
1. ACY/N&W   Medina OH  8/29/82   by Jim Marcus
2. AT&SF        Mazon IL      8/9/03      my shot
3. WI&M          Bovill ID       8/15/81    my shot   (Washington, Idaho & Montana)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/09/20 11:02 by valmont.

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Medina station was gone about 1984-85.  But the W&LE has plenty of business in Medina with local industries to keep the line quite active.  One eb & one wb, plus stone extras, and other extras.  A daylight crew switches the industries in Medina.  

Here's Mazon, IL, 4/20/09.  Gerry

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When I moved to Ohio for college in 1991, the Medina depot was still standing, barely.  It was sagging even more than in your photo, and was gone by the time I graduated in 1995. 

The much-remodeled Mazon depot still stands.  The asbestos-clad remnant you photographed was what was left following a 1953 rebuild of a larger structure that, even earlier, included an interlocking tower for a long-gone crossing of the Kankakee & Seneca:

https://books.google.com/books?id=bhnVTdSD9HMC&lpg=PA103&dq=mazon%20depot%20tower&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=mazon%20depot%20tower&f=false
http://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2015/12/mazon-il-junction-tower-k-and-santa-fe.html

BNSF has since remodeled the Mazon depot yet again with metal siding:

https://goo.gl/maps/s7aHsi9HYuCZqz358

I love the photos of Mazon, IL.  For about 40 years I have owned the ticket dater from the agency, so this was a good excuse to fire it up.  It needs a new ribbon though.

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