Railroad Depots of Northeast Ohio by Mark J . Camp

Author:Mark J . Camp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.

Brownhelm’s depot, although compact, provided all the essential services to the community. Structures of this size were sometimes relocated to other stations after the closing of the agency, to be used as yard offices and storage buildings. They could be easily transported on a flat car. This depot was once an important sandstone shipping point but has been gone since at least the mid-1900s. (Bob Lorenz collection.)

In 1872, the LS&MS built the above Amherst depot to standard plans, much like Ceylon and Vermilion. Note that the depot has separate waiting rooms and no facilities for freight handling. A standard plan freight house was also erected. The tracks through Amherst were elevated in the 1890s. Around 1902, a brick freight house was built on Franklin Street, replacing the earlier one. The local sandstone quarries kept the passenger and freight depots very busy in the early 1900s, but with declining local stops of NYC passenger trains in the late 1940s, business declined. The passenger depot was reportedly torn down for its lumber in 1946. By 1979, the freight house had been renovated and continues to serve as a meeting room. (Above, NYC Railroad photograph, Allen County [Ohio] Historical Society collection.)

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