Old Depot after it was moved back from
Batavia, MI: (
Satellite)
The depot in the right foreground was the original depot. See
Batavia, MI, for more information about it. The current depot is in the left background.
The current depot is on the left. The freight house in the middle is now a restaurant. And the red buildings were obviously grain elevators. I don't know if they still are.
The other side of the grain elevator.
The depot now serves the Little River Railroad, which is obviously a tourist train railroad.
Their trains include stock cars ("open air") and cabooses as well as coach cars.
Tank engines were normally used as yard goats. But it looks like it can handle a train on the mainline.
Most Class I railroads will no longer allow steam engines to run on their tracks. Fortunately, this route is now owned by the
Indiana Northeastern Railroad. They actually encourage steam excursion trains.
NKP 765 running out of Pleasant Lake, IN, is another example of a steam locomotive running on their tracks. That was a special occasion excursion train rather than a regularly scheduled tourist train. But I think they have had that special occasion at least twice now.
The freight house is worthy of note. Normally the office building part (2 story) is significantly shorter than the baggage handling part (1 story). I wonder why the office was so big in this one.
Steve Houts
posted 10 photos with the comment:
The NRHS meets the NYC in Coldwater. July 2025
In July we celebrated the Little River Railroads presence in Coldwater. What's so special is Coldwater has 2 depots that were on the LS&MS "Old Road" ROW. The original 1850 depot which is the oldest surviving depot in Michigan was moved to Batavia Michigan 6 miles west in 1882 and the current depot was built in 1883. Spring ahead to 1997 the Batavia depot came back to Coldwater and both have been next to each other ever since. The NRHS group got to see both plus a triple header steam show to Quincy and back on the former NYC line. Photo credits: Branch County Historical Society and myself.
Tim Shanahan
shared with the comment: "Coldwater Michigan."
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I confirmed that Coldwater is now on the Indiana Northeastern Railroad, a short line that is willing to host steam locomotive excursions. The NKP 765 is from the
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. I wonder who operates the other two steam locomotives.
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