Freeport, IL: Decrepit/Milwaukee Depot

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Larry Foht posted

Chicago Milwaukee

St. P & P Railroad Depot and Train

Freeport Illinois

Larry Foht collection :

Carol Datt Mattar: Thank you for posting this. Years later my parents would take us there to watch the passenger train come in just after watching the IC passenger train a few blocks away. We also left from here to take the overnight Milwaukee Road train to Kansas City to visit relatives.

John Cook: Freeport, in the early 1900s was second only to Chicago in Illinois when it came to trains arriving and leaving.

Rory Peterson commented on Edward's post below
CMStP&P 6155, ALCo Brooks 2-1910, retired 10-1951, at Freeport, IL on July 18, 1936./ Roy L. Peterson photograph

Andy Zukowski posted
Milwaukee Road Depot in Freeport, Illinois. 1975

Edward Weber posted five photos with the comment: "I added some more pictures of the abandoned Milwaukee Road Depot in Freeport, Illinois. Such a shame. I left from this depot many times in the sixties to see my grandparents In Lanark, Illinois."

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Brian Keith Landis commented on Edward's post
Brian Keith Landis posted
Some people been asking what the Milwaukee Road Depot in Freeport Illinois looks like now .Brian Landis photo.5/14/2023

Brian Berthold commented on Edward's post
.. that must have been a new depot? cuz that building is just noth of the old Baggage Depot which in turn was north of the Passenger depot

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

See Railroad Hub for the Milwaukee route through town.

1944 Freeport Quad @ 62,500