{"id":833,"date":"2018-04-18T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/?p=833"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:14:18","slug":"railroad-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/2018\/04\/18\/railroad-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Debra Thornburgh<\/b><\/a> remembers sitting in my grandfather Freeman Swanson’s truck and watching for the train to go thru to pick up the mail as he use to hang it there<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Christensen<\/b><\/a> I use to play near it alot and watch the mail exchange . Every so often the alignment was not right and the mail would be spread all over the yard<\/p>\n

Donald Christensen<\/b><\/a> The platform side was on the lumber yard side. The entrance was on the highway 10 side. Can’t remember the north and south right now. I think the mail transfer hooks are on the white pole where the ladder is. I can’t see the pictures real well.<\/p>\n

Sharon Roster<\/b><\/a> On the lumber side was a man named Dutch and I think. He owned it.<\/p>\n

Betty Wold<\/b><\/a> Dutch Maus, was friend of Dad\u2019s and I bet Bud\u2019s too<\/p>\n

Stan Lumley<\/b><\/a> I WOULD GUESS IT WAS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE TRACKS NEAR WHERE THE OLD FERTILIZER PLANT IS NOW. I WOULD ALSO THINK IT WAS THE DEPOT THAT HAD TO BE BUILT TO COMPLY WITH THE SALE OF OUR OLD HOUSE AT 417 PLEASANT AVE THAT STATED THE BUYER WOULD GET TH…See More<\/p>\n

I was thinking south side as well. I am working on a depot history post and hoping to get it done soon.<\/p>\n

Stan Lumley<\/b><\/a> Jana Harrer<\/a> I DO NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS ON THE SOUTH SIDE BUT IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE DEPOT THAT WAS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE TRACKS.<\/p>\n

Stan Lumley<\/a> i know there were depots on both sides and I know that one burned. I am building a catalog of photos and other stories to try to put the history and timeline all together.<\/p>\n

Jerry Maurer<\/b><\/a> My dad, Ken Maurer, worked at that depot in 1960-61 before I started grade school.<\/p>\n

Gloria Mitchell<\/b><\/a> Lyle and Arlene were are neighbors. When my brother Larry would lock me out of the house, I went to them. Lyle would come over and have Larry let me in. Lyle had a talk with him and it did not happen again. lol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debra Thornburgh remembers sitting in my grandfather Freeman Swanson’s truck and watching for the train to go thru to pick up the mail as he use to hang it there Donald Christensen I use to play near it alot and watch the mail exchange . Every so often the alignment was not right and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-surrounding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biglakemnhistory.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}