Frog Hollow Station near Boyertown, is a brand new structure built for the Colebrookdale Railroad tourist line from a design Frank Furness drew for the Philadelphia & Reading RR in November 1883.

The P&R built this design at Gorgas Lane, Bycot, and Noble, but none of those survived the 20th century.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/PhiladelphiaIndustrialHeritage/permalink/4580153592273258

A ghost town named Goo... another was named Tunk - so there must have been enough odd named ones that it wasn't very unusual

Goo was likely located off of a railroad branch that extended from Boyne Falls area toward Alba. It doesn't sound like it was much of a town, more likely a logging camp or small settlement.

"Goo" appears in the Rand McNally Shippers Guide for Michigan, 1908 and 1917.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1282668961809379/permalink/28327162176933358

Central Railway Station in Helsinki, Finland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Central_Station#/media/File:Helsinki_Central_Station_fa%C3%A7ade.jpg

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/03/lantern-carriers-sculptor-emil-wikstrom.html

before and after of the famous location where O. Winston Link photographed “Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper”

O. Winston Link's “Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper”  

Old Maude, with her sledge load of oak stove-wood, just happened along as the train was approaching, and Link took advantage of the situation. He asked brothers Gene and Roy Hampton, who were hauling the wood to the family's farm nearby, to wait a few minutes for the train.

The Norfolk &Western filed abandonment papers and railroad operations ceased in March,1977. The track was sold for scrap and the old line is now the Virginia Creeper tracks to trails hiking biking walking trail

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=746449628363913&set=a.369187376090142

I posted about the Virginia Creeper trail, and this railway station before, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/08/virginia-travel-writers-and.html

and the hurricane flood damage https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/07/damascus-virginia-iron-bridge-showing.html

and O Winston Link's photography https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2024/01/ogle-winston-link-dalhouse-cleans.html

an electric oak clock from the 1950s that was a fixture of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Union Station in Pittsburgh, was retired in the 70s, and finally restored in 2022

They worked with the Electric Time Company of Medfield, Massachusetts, the original maker of the clock, to source missing parts

when the Pittsburgh Union Station was getting renovated in the 70s, the clock’s face, complete with dual armature motor and hands, was recovered and transported from the station to the Arden Trolley Museum in the back of a ’56 Dodge

https://pa-trolley.org/would-you-look-at-the-time/

If you've been looking forward to looking through railroad lanterns, and other steam locomotive era train stuff, to buy for a fathers day gift... you're going to like this auction (I'd like that Seth Thomas No. 2 Railroad regulator myself!)

 

there must be a 180 lanterns, a there are railroad luggage racks, oilers, office chairs, spittoons, passes, time tables, locks, stock certificates, photos, and so many other things. 

These old ashtrays are the coolest! 

https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/Category/All_Items-1.html  July 16 - 17, 2025

Kiah Hall (Savannah Georgia) is one of the original 1856 components of the country's only intact antebellum railroad complex. Savannah College of Art & Design is housed in an 1853 brick structure that was once a railway depot for the Central of Georgia Railway.

Originally conceived as a major trade post for Savannah, the railroad complex was occupied by Union troops at the close of the Civil War. 

In the early 20th century, the area surrounding much of the Central of Georgia Railroad buildings emerged as an important African American commercial district and cultural hub, and remained so through the mid-20th century. 

Despite its prime location and significant pedigree, the complex was beset by five decades of neglect, and by the late 20th century, the depot and its precious Savannah gray brick lay in ruins. 

Yet, a wealth of natural beauty and possibility remained, sparking SCAD's commitment to its students and to the Savannah community at large.

Imagine a parcel of land deep enough to hold the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Louvre. At one end was the old Gray Building, in the Palladian style, six immense Doric columns holding the pediment. It was named Kiah Hall, in honor of educator, artist, civil rights activist, and SCAD trustee Virginia Kiah.

 As always, students were brought in to study the restoration process, how to conserve interior ceilings, how to peel back each layer of paint to expose the same bitumen black used to paint the locomotives.

https://www.scadmoa.org/about

https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/the-remarkable-story-of-the-scad-museum-of-art/

The Depot Hotel in Reno, Nevada (railway station for the Central Pacific Railroad and the Virginia and Truckee Railroad)

The Great Fire of 1879 obliterated the building, but a grander, three-story hotel with 47 rooms, a bar, and railroad offices rose in its place. Tragically, the Depot Hotel met its final demise in 1889, with the CPRR opting to replace it with a modest single-story brick station instead.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1076090357891623&set=a.465020845665247

I'm still working on my family tree... and finally made a break through on the one branch that had been impossible to find more info on... and my paternal grandmother's grandfather and great grandfather were bridge carpenters for the Michigan Central Railroad

The Michigan Central Railroad had several wooden bridges, including the Baker Street segment of the Double Bridge in Detroit, the Kettle Creek Bridge in St. Thomas, and the Saginaw River Bridge in Bay City.

the wood-timbered Baker Street segment of the 1870s-vintage Double Bridge was functionally-obsolete and replaced by a new concrete-and-steel version c. 1910. 

The Michigan Central had the most direct route across Michigan from Detroit to Chicago. The Michigan Central also had the best access to Chicago of any Michigan railroad.

and you probably recognize the station that Ford recently made a lot of headlines about buying... the famous Michigan Central station in Detroit

And also, I finally made the family tree connection my sister had been hoping for, I proved that we are related to Mary Queen of Scots. Way back during high school my sister did a book report, or essay or something on Mary Stewart, after watching the movie with Katherine Hepburn, Mary of Scotland, which also starred Frederic March https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027948

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Railroad

https://historicdetroit.org/galleries/michigan-central-station-construction-photos#:~:text=The%20soon%2Dto%2Dbe%2D,Arthur%20Lyman%20Sarvey%20photo%2C%20c.

I happened to be driving by the San Diego railroad depot, the Santa Fe Depot, the other day. Impressively still in use every day

 

The caboose design of the entry to the depot? Genius... why weren't railroad depot built that way back when materials were dirt cheap, and old equipment was so easy to find it was thrown away? Anyway, what a great way to give an old railroad depot a new life! Make is a pizza joint!

above, 1919

https://www.facebook.com/depotpizza

Thank you Marc! 

According to https://www.west2k.com/ohstations/sandusky.shtml the area depots (one made in 1875) are now part of a Moose Lodge, one is a barber shop, and this one is a pizza joint

https://www.west2k.com/ohstations/sandusky.shtml

https://archive.nkphts.org/object/14323-lew-frt-sta-fremont-oh-back-side-10-4-72?index=0&page=39

The Clifton Rocks Railway was an underground funicular railway in Bristol, which also served as a WW2 air-raid shelter.

The tunnel through the limestone cliffs was 500ft long and ran 230ft deep. It carried 427,000 people in the first year of operation - a marvel of engineering

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122140533716207506&set=a.122117530544207506

facebook is a good source of hobbyist's photos for nearly every hobby there is, and has a lot of trains and railroad pages... just came across a new one today

bonus, there's in IH Travelall rail inspector! 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225043738554248&set=gm.1051899519011571&idorvanity=280781616123369

the Museum d'Orsay used to be a railroad station, now it's a world class fine art museum featured in the Netflix series Lupin

In 1900, the Orleans railway company transformed a plot of land on the banks of Paris' Seine River into the Gare d'Orsay (“Orsay Station”).

Formerly occupied by the Palais d'Orsay—a building erected under Napoleon and destroyed in 1871 by the Paris Commune, a radical and revolutionary government—this centrally located site was the perfect place to build a bustling train station.

Designed by French architects Émile Bénard, Victor Laloux, and Lucien Magne during Paris' Belle Époque, the Gare d'Orsay paired a beautiful Beaux-Arts aesthetic with top-of-the-line technologies. These included elevators and escalators, luggage ramps, and electrified tracks. Given its modernity, the station's debut was planned to coincide with the 1900 Paris Exposition. This world's fair was held to highlight the innovations and inventions that were transforming the world at the turn of the century.

Following this event, the Gare d'Orsay served as the terminus for railways out of southwestern France for nearly four decades.

 By 1939, however, its platforms proved to be too short for newer, longer trains, and it gradually stopped operating as a train station.

The station was then used as an expedition center, a reception center for prisoners of war, an auction house, the residence of a theater company, even as a parking garage. It was also used as a setting for several films, including The Trial of Kafka adapted by Orson Welles.

Famous for its vast collection of Impressionist paintings, Musée d'Orsay holds the largest number of famous paintings in the world by Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, and Renoir.

Facing the Louvre and the Tuileries and overlooking the Quai de Seine, it is in the center of Paris, located in a strategic location.

https://mymodernmet.com/musee-d-orsay-history/

https://www.justfocus.fr/en/arts-and-entertainment/exhibitions-arts/the-museum-dorsay-reopens-its-doors-to-the-public-this-tuesday-23-june.html

https://www.parisinsidersguide.com/history-of-musee-d-orsay.html

Michigan's Railroad History 1825- 2014 36 page PDF is online

 

https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/-/media/Project/Websites/MDOT/Travel/Mobility/Rail/Michigan-Railroad-History.pdf

The train station in Staples, Minnesota on Amtrak's daily Empire Builder service was built in 1909 by the Northern Pacific Railway, it's still used every day

The Northern Pacific Depot and freighthouse in Staples, Minnesota are significant as the sole surviving structures of what were originally extensively developed yard facilities at the railway’s division headquarters. The railway dominated the development and the economy from 1889 until well into the twentieth century. Located on the main line of the Northern Pacific line, the Staples depot is also significant as an extremely well-preserved example of the type of work produced by staff architects of the railway.

  an ice box from a passenger train car.

https://www.amtrak.com/stations/spl

http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/staples.htm

https://discoverstaples.com/staples-historic-depot/

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=209096