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| Lansing Historical Society posted When looking at this photograph of the old Lansing train depot, one can almost hear the lonely cry of the steam whistle blowing in the distance. This photograph was taken in the year 1910. Back in 1910 the Village of Lansing still showed as a station stop on the Pennsylvania railroad timetable. The man on the left looks like he could be the station agent. Pedro Allen Stifer: Where was this located? Lansing Historical Society: Where the new skate park is now located. It was about a block south of the clocktower on Ridge Road. Mike Breski shared Bill Molony shared Bill Molony shared |
I'm saving the satellite image I saw when I wrote these notes because I suspect the skatepark construction will remove the foundation remnants.
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| Satellite |
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| Lansing Historical Society posted The Depot Ice Cream/Gram's Central Station Ice Cream Parlor ~ 18236 Sherman Street, Lansing Illinois. Phone # 895-1230. The restaurant was built into the old Pennsylvania Railroad's train depot. This is how it looked in the year 1980. Attached to the depot was a 36-seat lightweight stainless steel dining car - the BIRMINGHAM- built in 1950 by Pullman-Standard for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. The coach went to the Seaboard Coast Line raillroad in 1967 and finally to Amtrak in 1971. After the restaurant closed in the early 1990's, the coach was shipped to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois (where it still resides today). Bill Molony posted |
I discovered this construction activity when I tried to look at the foundation remnants with a street view.
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| Street View, May 2023 |
I knew Ridge Road was built on a glacier moraine. This topo map clearly shows that Lansing was built on that moraine.
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| 1953 Calumet City Quad @ 24,000 |
This topo map has a square parallel to the tracks to mark the location of the depot. Looking near Central Avenue is how I found the foundation.
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| 1953 Calumet City Quad @ 24,000 |
Is that steam from a locomotive obscuring the depot in this image?
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| 1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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