Chickasaw County Iowa

Nashua Rail Road Depots



Illinois Central Depot ~ Nashua

This photograph of the old Illinois Central Depot was taken in the early 1900s, when it was a busy place, accommodating the many passengers who got on or off the trains that went through Nashua.  This depot was built in 1868, when the railroad first came to Nashua. It was torn down in the early 1940s.  It had been used as a freight depot since the new passenger depot was built in 1916, on the west side of the tracks.




The New Illinois Central Railroad Depot
This depot was built in 1916 as a passenger depot.  You can see the over hang of the first depot, in the upper left side of the photograph.  (The first depot is shown in the other picture above.)

SOURCES:
The Nashua Reporter and Weekly Post
Original photographic negative from the Avice McGregor Collection,
at the Nashua Public Library
Contributed by Mr J. Adelmund




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