Monday 25 September 2017
From 1925 until 1963, the train came through Esther three days a week with freight, mail and grain cars. There never was a station or a station master in Esther. This little building served as the storage shed and a small waiting room. Sometime after 1963, groceries and freight were no longer hauled by train and this little building was purchased by Bruce Pratt and moved to his farmyard where it remains today. It is a small piece of the community history that has been preserved and is still standing straight and proud.
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A small waiting room! I love it!
ReplyDeleteCrazy about train stuff! Such a small nondescript shed looking thing. Yet what history.
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