Vandalia Depot  

The front of the depot stated the firection of the beginning of the line in Terre Haute at 149.3 milies and the end of te line South Bend at 33.4 mile; this being the front or lakeside of the depot.

The First depot was not built on Lake Shore Dr. but instead it was just what one room a shack and was built at the end of East Jefferson street where the Famr Bureau co-op was located now the Culver Cove.


1883 - Aug 14 - Logansport Branch

(From the Terre Haute Express)

Capt. A. B. Fitch has just returned from the extension,and reports work progressing rapidly. He says everything will be by the 1st of September, about two weeks later than was anticipated...

The plans for depots at Loganpsort, Kewanna and Lake Maxinkuckee have been drawn, and contractors are now making estimates... - St. Louis Globe-Democrat

1884 - July 28 - Assistant Chief Engineer Gibbons, of the Vandalia, is preparing plans for a very handsome depot at Marmont, near Lake Maxinkttckee, which is to be erected this fall. - Indianapolis Journal

1884 - July 30 -A new depot will be erected this fall at Marmont, on the Vandalia, Marmont is on the northwest corner of Lake Maxinkuckee. - Logansport Pharos Tribune

1884 - Aug. 5 - The Vandalia people are putting np a very nice passenger depot at Marmont the station at Lake Maxinknekee The building is to be n great improvement over ordinary plaoes of the kind - Evansville Journal

1884 - August 23 - The new depot at Marmont is nearly completed. It is an exact counterpart of the one in Logansport - Logansport Chronicle

NOTED eleewhere - was that the Marmont depot was completed on 11 April 1885 and features a 200 foot platform and concession stand which contradicts the above newspaper accounts...

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When the station was built on lake shore the "shack" was moved to the far east end of the platform and used for storage. You can just barely make it out in the background, just to the right if the prominent utility pole, and past the passenger shelter (a general location is found for this from the WPA work being done in the town park in 1936 " A five-foot walk has been laid from the freight houae to the round stand"

These photos show where the Colonade was located in respect to the Vandalia Depot
	and where the depot was located on Lake Shore - drive (taken after the depot had burned ; placing the depot at approximately between Liberty Street and Forest Place

This photo shows the beloved Weeping Mulberry tree today, this also helps gives perspective as to where the depot original sat, as it sat in front of the original depot.

12 January 1920 the depot built in 1884 was destroyed by fire

A view of the Depot in 1898 from the park side

CMA Students at the depot, year unknown

This was to be the Station masters house that sat on the knoll in front of the present depot a redition of it painted by David B. Burns (1909-1990); he gave the painting to Clara Hansen in the late 1980's and it hung on the wall at 614 Lake Shore - above the booths there till her closing - what happened to it after that is unknow,\ 1923 - Jan. 24 - Removal of Landmark W. T. Parish has bought the cottage on the railroad land and will remove it to his lot in the Dillon & Medbourn addition north of the Keen gallery. It will be remodeled and modernized into a comfortable renting property. The building was on of the first in the original town, erected about 1866, when there were but eleven houses in side the corportation. Its first occupant was Dr. Wiseman Sr. 1923 Nov 21 Hand Car Shed being remodeled DUG UP OLD PAPERS Herman Morris Finds Some Interesting Things in Former Depot. Some thirty-eight year old papers were brought from darkness to the light last week by Herman Morris, carpenter foreman of the South Bend division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, when the old hand-car shed just east of the depot was being remodeled. The old shed which was remodeled was formerly the depot building in Culver. When the present station was built, it was moved to its present location and used for a store house and for a hand car... Citizen 1946 - Jan 16 - The second of the two large cedar trees on the depot plaza, both old landmarks, was cut down last week as a safety precaution when it was found that the base of the 100-foot tree was rotten two-thirds of the way through.

1944 - Apr 12 - High Winds Results in Considerable Damage Here Tuesday Morning

The strongest wind ever experienced in this vicinity uprooted trees, tore off roofs, broke glass and caused consoiderable other damage...

An old landmark was the victim of the storm when one of the two large pine trees in the oval of the depot was downed...

Part of a novelty set - the saucer -