Train Depot on the move!!

[Ron J]

[attachment 47809 ScannedImage-2.jpg][attachment 47810 ScannedImage-3.jpg][attachment 47812 cannon050.jpg][attachment 47813 cannon056.jpg][attachment 47815 cannon052.jpg]This postcard of a train depot is in Danvers Massachusetts, about ten minutes from my house. Its interesting to me,because its nearby,but also because ten yrs ago,i had helped a friend clean out a house. There,i found some old photo's. A couple show the depot on the move. Never seen anything like it. What is really intriguing,is the fact it was moved by the railroad,on their on flatcars. I have also included a couple of photo's of what it look like now. Unfortunately its been used as a warehouse for yrs,at Bursaw Oil Co. In the past year, its also been in local newspapers. The boy scouts cleaned it out,and the Historical Society wants to preserve it. They have acquired donated land,and are raising funds to move it again! [attachment 47808 classics.jpg]

 

[Wayne in BC]

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[Ron J]

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[Micheal_R]

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[Sunny]

know Johnboy did a pen & ink drawing of it years back. I bet it's already been detected to death by now, tho.

The one in Little Rock was turned into a bar!

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

Are you allowed to detect places like that ?

 

[david(tx)]

i noticed they replaced some of the original windows,oh well,it moved once,it can make it again.

 

[Terry B]

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[Royal]

that are moved now days! I saw them move a dang Lighthouse on tv last year>

Thanks for the pictures buddy

 

[Dan-MO]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

I do hope that someone will follow through and fully restore it. Something like that could be converted into a fascinating home.

While doing some recent research about this area of San Antonio, I discovered that a U-Haul store was a former elementary school house, that an antique store was a former theater with the stage still intact at the rear of the store, that somewhere on one of the fields near an apartment complex use to have a race track, and a grocery store is now located on the former site of a drive-in movie.

Thanks for posting the interesting photos. Kelley (Texas)

 

[VT Dave]

I'll have to look it up next time I'm down.

Dave