Vandalia's Early Days

It was 29 years ago June 20 that the Vandalia;s rails reached Culver (Marmont then) from Logansport and a few weeks later a passenger service of one train each way between the two places was established.

The train was a mixed one, carrying local frieght, went down to Logansport in the morning and b ack in the evening.

Bill Marray (now dead) was the conductor and Arthur Holton was the engineer. Holton is still on the run. He boarded at the time, and until the road got through to Plymouth the next season, at Jake Knapp's hotel who conducted Marmont's only hotel onthe lot now occupied by the Pete SMith house, next to George Rollins'

Frank Huntsinger was the station agent and operator. He is now train dispatched at Terre Haute.

The station was a small shack on the west side of the track where the inlet to the Medbourn ice house now is. The building is the present bandcar house at theeast end of the depot platform. - Citizen Jul 11, 1912