Circa 1900 There are people and two bicycles leaning against the building. There is a track running directly in front of the Depot as well as to the side where the Big Four train us standing. Note also the snowplow at the far right. Maurice Lewman Collection.
I will say again how wonderful those old railroad buildings were. Thanks for another beauty, Roger and LEW.
Wabash is in Northern Indiana. It is not far from Ft Wayne. It is the only town named Wabash. Yes, there could have been something else known as Wabash in Ft Wayne, but there was only one Wabash town with a depot. There was even Wabash College over in Crawfordsville.
Lovely, reminiscent of the NYC Harlem Div. daily train from GCT through Chatham, NY to Pittsfield and North Adams, MA. Virtually a milk run, picking up and dropping off "baggage" at almost every station along that line.
I wasn't sure where to add this, but fans of Indiana depots might wish to locate a copy of The Next Station Will Be Volume X published by the Railroadians of America in 1988. This is one of a series of excellent 8-1/2" x 11" softcover horizontal format books featuring photos of Erie Railroad depots as taken about 1910. Using a one-depot-per-page format, the photo detail is preserved and it's a joy to look at the scenes. This Volume includes the Marion Division between Marion, OH and Chicago and finds nearly 40 depot photos in Indiana alone. Books from this series are often easily found and are affordable at about $10. I paid more than this through the years when I bought them new. I guess an increasing number of fans just don't find much interest in this sort of thing anymore.
Yep, four cities is correct -- the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway. It was an NYC property.
It operated as an independent agent for a number of years until it was fully absorbed by the NYC. Even then, many of the workers thought of themselves as Big 4 although they ran NYC equipment. It wasn't until CSX took over the line that the Big 4 died. It had gone through NYC, PC, and CR and was still the Big 4.
