All Aboard!
by Barry Bauer
This photo suggest that these young men of the late 1930s or early 1940s were about to board a train and head off for their physicals and official induction into the U. S. Army.
I don’t recognize the building on the right and off in the distance on the left are a couple of Shell Oil storage tanks on the north side of the tracks. Those tanks plus the coal yard were probably two of the biggest culprits of ground pollution in that area.
Update from Tom Beechler: “The picture you printed of the depot shows the old freight building. The front of the building housed the office area with storage area extending to the east. As I recall there were 5/6 bay areas for receiving and shipping freight.”
He also adds: “Jim Viers, “Jim the barber,” used a portion of the building for his paper products business. I seem to
remember the building burning sometime in the ’60s.”