Frederick, MD: 1854 Government Office/B&O Depot

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Street View, Aug 2021

Robert L Cole posted
Another Post Card I have in my collection, An artist rendition of the B&O Passenger Station Frederick Maryland. Post card is circa early 1900's.

Michael David Wasiljov: Still there and looks pretty much the same. It's used for social services now I believe.

Dennis DeBruler: Michael David Wasiljov Found it : https://maps.app.goo.gl/6aX9w1KSKcKKfYqPA

This 1854 building replaced the original 1831 depot. [TrainOrders]

By "replace," do they mean the land was reused, or do they mean it was functionally replaced by a depot in a new location? If the land was reused, then this must have been a freight house because the date is 1906, over a half century after the "new" depot was built.

LC-USZ62-52635, c1906
B&O railroad depot, the oldest one in the U.S., Frederick, Md.

The B&O branch to Frederick terminated at this depot.

1908/21 Jamsville Quad @ 62,500

Note the historical marker in the lower-right corner of this view.

Street View, Aug 2023

That marker explains:

At this intersection, President Abraham Lincoln spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents assembled in the streets on October 4, 1862. He had just returned from viewing the battlefields of South Mountain and Antietam and had called on Gen. George L. Hartsuff who was recuperating here from a wound suffered at Antietam. Lincoln was about to board a train for Washington. “I return thanks to our soldiers for the good services they have rendered, the energy they have shown, the hardships they have endured, and the blood they have shed for this Union of ours,” he said. “And also return thanks, not only to the soldiers, but to the good citizens of Frederick, and to the good men, women, and children in this land of ours, for their devotion to this glorious cause; and I say this with no malice in my heart toward those who have done otherwise. May our children and children’s children, for a thousand generations, continue to enjoy these benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under these glorious institutions, bequeathed to us by Washington and his compeers.”

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Robert L Cole posted

Andrew Roberts: That is actually #4441 taking water at Frederick Junction. Headed westbound.

Stockton, PA: 1895 Store/Pennsy Depot

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Trail View, looking East from Bridge Street, Aug 2011

Metrotrails posted two photos with the comment:

Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Historic 1910 postcard image in Stockton, New Jersey from the Shane Blische collection, featuring the Belvidere Delaware Railroad station and the Stockton Rubber Co mill to the right.

The first station at this site was a one story stone structure built by the Belvidere-Delaware Railroad in 1852.

The Bel-Del originally designated the station as "Centre Bridge", for the nearby crossing of the Delaware, but changed the name to Stockton in 1867. The original station was replaced with a larger mixed stone and wood station building by the Pennsylvania Railroad after its takeover in the early 1870s. That building would be destroyed in an explosion set off by dynamite from an attempt by robbers to break open a safe containing quarry workers' pay rolls in November 1894. The station we see today was the borough's third incarnation built in 1895.

Stockton station was a combined passenger and freight depot like many on the Bel-Del line.

The local station agent was eliminated in 1958, and passenger service continued to the site until 1960.

The station was sold off, and hosted several businesses over the years. Today, it is a splendid convenience store and deli.

The Stockton Rubber mill originally began as the Stockton Cycle Manufacturing Company around 1895 which produced bicycles. Patrons as far as Trenton would hop on the train to purchase their products. The bicycle factory eventually closed, sold, and reopened as the Stockton Rubber mill, which operated until a disastrous fire around 1927 completely burned the facility to the ground. The rubber mill mostly made tires. The bicycle factory-turned-rubber mill was a railroad customer during those 32 years, receiving coal for its boilers and rubber gum for the process of rubber tire manufacturing. During its time as the bike factory, bikes were shipped out by boxcars.

Metrotrails shared

M'ke Helbing shared with the comment: "Stockton NJ then and now."

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There were canals on both sides of the river. The Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail uses the railroad's RoW through town.

1954/56 Stockton Quad @ 24,000

Trail View, look West from Bridge Street, Oct 2024, at Google resolution

Mechanicsville, IA: Lost/C&NW Depot and Farm Chemicals

(Satellite, somewhere along the mainline.)

Michael Emerson Avitt posted
C&NW depot at Mechanicsville, Iowa.

1965/67 Mechanicsville Quad @ 24,000

 

The photo above shows that the depot was along the mainline, but I don't see an appropriate rectangle in this photo.

Apr 15, 1963 @ 18,000; AR1VARI00010159

In case the depot was gone by 1963, I got the earlier photo even though the resolution is not good. I still can't determine where the depot was.

This town no longer has any grain storage facilities, but it does have a lot of equipment for storing and applying chemicals (e.g. fertilizer) to fields. This view catches some sprayers on the left and some disk applicators on the right.

Street View, Jul 2024

Applying chemicals to fields is a big business in this town.

Satellite