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Floyd Rose
posted seven photos with the comment:
From a Depot, to a Business: Oconomowoc WI. Waukesha Co. Built in 1896, for the Milwaukee Road, designed by the famous Chicago architect, Charles Sumner Frost, in a Tudor Revival style. It is currently believed to be the only remaining Granite Stone depot still standing. As the Milwaukee Road crews were building West toward the Pacific, they were instructed, as they were blasting tunnels through the Rocky Mountains to load flat cars with the most colorful rocks found, they would be used in building this Depot. It probably didn’t hurt, that the president of the Milwaukee Road at that time, Albert Earling, lived on Oconomowoc Lake. Passenger service ended here in the early 60’s. Canadian Pacific freight, (Watertown Subdivision) and Amtrak service continues today, but this location is not a Amtrak stop. Today it’s a popular restaurant, where the main dining room, originally the covered waiting pavilion, is now seating for diners to watch as the trains go by. There are many railroad pictures and artifacts, plus an HO scale Oconomowoc layout located Inside. Along next to the depot is a 1923, Northern Pacific passenger car, now used as the Victorian Railcar Banquet & Catering car, also owned by the restaurant and a restored railroad passenger umbrella shed, built in 1906. This unique stone depot is on the National Register of Historical Places.
My Photos are from 07/23/2006, 08/16/2009, 03/26/2020 and 09/21/2020. Dec. 1963 Slide, by unknown photographer. fmr
Jim Kelling
shared with the comment: "Oconomowoc Wisconsin (Milwaukee Road)
Amtrak’s Empire Builder runs through here without stopping."
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The depot's location is marked on the map.
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| 1959 Oconomowoc West and East Quads @ 24,000 |
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