Angola, IN: Aban/NYC/FW&JS Depot

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Terry Wisel Heintz posted

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The depot for the Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad still stands in Angola. It is now an eating establishment. What used to be the Tri-State University is evidently now Trine University. Students can eat here using the meal ticket so it was doing a pretty brisk business when we ate their.

The railroad route is now part of Indiana Northeastern, and it looks like they are doing a good job of maintaining the track

The passenger side is now the serving facilities and some seating. The baggage side is more seating. They did preserve the center part. The agent's office is now the manager's office. The PRR emblem above the door has to be wrong. The FWJ&S was absorbed by the New York Central System.

They hung quite a few historic photos on the walls. Unfortunately, most of my photos of them were bad. Fortunately, one of the more interesting pictures is viewable. It appears that there used to be a freight house across the tracks from the depot. The semaphores would be for train order instructions that the agent would receive on a telegraph and hoop up to the engineer and conductor.

This Facebook posting is what motivated me to find my pictures and post them.

Nick Cook posted
This picture was taken from the platform of the former New York Central Freight Station in Angola. The station survives to this day as a private business. The train is the Lake Central Passenger Train that briefly ran from Angola to Hamilton in 2005 and 2006. As a kid, I took steam excursions from Pleasant lake to Angola on Little River Railroad. When in High School, I volunteered for the LR when it ran from Pleasant lake to Steubenville, IN, So this trip was a real bit of nostalgia for me. I had never ridden the segment from Steubenville to Hamilton, though I had walked it the day after the last day of school my freshman year in High School.