Decatur, AL: Museum/Union Depot, Microwave Tower and L&N Oakworth Yard & Freight House

Depot: (Satellite, 302 photos)

Tower: (Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite)

Freight House: (Satellite, the freight house no longer exists.)

Street View, Oct 2022

Dale Proctor posted
Decatur Ala., 5/18/85.
Jim Kelling shared
Decatur Alabama (L&N station)
Dennis DeBruler: It has been restored, and it is now a museum:
 https://maps.app.goo.gl/eDyHxpxWLysJzxwn9

L&N's predecessor depot.

History of Decatur Alabama posted
An incredibly rare image of the L&N Depot circa 1915. This Depot was roughly at the end of Grant St. in the general area of the Farmers’ Mkt. and Decatur Daily today.  This Depot was demolished after the L&N joined with Southern Rwy to form a Union Depot.
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Historical Society shared

Since the bridge over the Tennessee River was used by both the L&N and Southern, it makes sense that this Union Depot was shared by those two railroads. Jim's comment confirms the L&N usage, and this wall decoration confirms the Southern usage.

Morgen Friess, Feb 2022

I included the microwave tower because they are now also a relic. I don't know why this one is still standing.

Street View, May 2016

I don't see any cell-phone antennas on it. I do see at least one microwave dish. 

Street View, May 2016

Andrew Waldo posted

Valuation Section 42a on the Louisville & Nashville RR included only Decatur and the Albany Shops, but there was a lot to inventory, especially in Albany. The first photograph appearing in the ICC Engineering Field Notes for this section is of the Decatur Freight House. When built in 1895, the head house was only one story. Sometime prior to this photograph, taken on 25 January 1918, the second story was added.

Photo Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Valuation Section 42a (Decatur-Albany Shops), Building Notes, Alabama.

 

Andrew Butler commented on Waldo's post
It looks like it was on the edge of what is now ready mix usa's property. I believe the freight house is the building directly southeast of the roundhouse. Source:
 https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/.../AL_Decatur_303658_1936_24000...