The start of the work week often has people rushing to get to their jobs after a weekend, but if you take the train at Stonefield Historical Site, you will never be late as the sign by the train depot reads The Governor Nelson Dewey Line “Going Nowhere and Always on Time”.
Always on Time
With more chances of snow in the forecast, the spring arrival birds and the critters that came out of hibernation, just might take a train ride south for a couple of weeks until winter is really over.
Soo-Line Caboose
Train stations or depots were the hub of most towns and almost every town had one as it not only moved goods from town to town, but provided a means for people to travel to other parts of the country. But as the use of the automobile became more common, the local depot fell in its importance to a town and by 1950s the smaller towns and cities depots were closed and disappeared from the landscape. Some larger depots are still in use and some of the abandons ones have survived by serving another function such as housing a different business or as the local museum.
End of the Line for the Depot
