New Depot: (Satellite)
Freight House: (Satellite)
Wood Grain Elevator: (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.
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| Street View, Sep 2024 via Dennis DeBruler |
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.
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| Street View, Sep 2024 |
The other side of the grain elevator.
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| Street View, Sep 2024 |
The depot now serves the Little River Railroad, which is obviously a tourist train railroad.
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| Photo, Apr 2024 |
Their trains include stock cars ("open air") and cabooses as well as coach cars.
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| Photo, Apr 2024 |
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| A. Bloom, Oct 2016 |
Locomotive 110 was restored in 1975, and the tank engine was restored in 2002. [LittleRiverRailroad_locomotives]
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| LittleRiverRailroad |
Tank engines were normally used as yard goats. But it looks like it can handle a train on the mainline.
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| LittleRiverRailroad_locomotives |
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.
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| Street View, Sep 2024 |
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| Photo, Dec 2022 |
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