Re: What warrants a depot -- Kenosha Depot

Posted by Jim Courtney on Apr 01, 2019; 9:50pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-warrants-a-depot-tp13700p13750.html

I have the Pictorial Supplement, need to see if there is a date.


Mac Poor, in his station list, states the depot was at altitude of 9,991 feet, station call "KN", and had a gentleman named F. B. Ross as station agent in 1885, so it must have been there by that date.

The depot was 16 x 24 feet with an addition on rear of 11 x 13 feet. The depot when built cost $1,200.00 to construct, quite a bit for the mid 1880's. Although the depot is shown on the 1918 valuation map, Poor states that the depot was dismantled in January, 1919.

Trackage at Kenosha included a total of 3,162 feet of sidings and a wye.

Interestingly, there was also a frame "car repair shop" of 12 x 28 feet in the early days. Just long enough to repair a Litchfield boxcar or coal car, but the 30 foot Peninsular cars would have protruded out the end.