Depot: (
Satellite, the bank is on the former depot's land)
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Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
This photo was first posted here in January 2017 but it is so "railroady" that we want to do it again. Stratford is located northwest of Ames, Iowa. It was on a C&NW line which once ran from Jewell, Iowa west to toward Wall Lake, Iowa. It is fascinating to note that this once active rail center is now a non rail hamlet of about 700 citizens.
Aaron Grace shared
All gone. |
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Dennis DeBruler commented on the above post
The Security Saving Bank now sets on the depot's land and the grain elevator's land is part of a fertilizer supply company. 1950 aerial [ARA000700060255 @ 70,0000] |
I started with a 1963 aerial because it has better resolution. But the depot was gone already. It looks like there were a bunch of small bins south of Commercial Street on the west side of town.
Looking at a route map, it makes sense that the route would have been abandoned so early because it is so close to the main route to Omaha. That route was not redundant when it was built in the horse & wagon days, but it did not even need interstate highways to make it redundant, paved roads were good enough to make it redundant. Stratford is too small to be on this map. Stratford is between Dayton and Stanhope on this map.
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| 1978 Stratford Quad @ 24,000 |
These are some of the biggest wood grain elevators I remember seeing, even in photos, for a rural town.
It has grown even though it lost rail service.
Receiving and applying fertilizer is as important as shipping grain.
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