Here's looking West from the top of the bridge. There use to be a two- or three-arm railroad lead alongside the tracks. There also used to be a CB&Q station on the left side, where I spent many happy hours with the station master, who in the mid to late 1950s still used his telegraph.

I have commented elsewhere about being in the station when a signal maintainer came in on a cold winter's day, to warm himself by the Round Oak stove. He was cussing up a storm about the kids who had shot some of his insulators, and broken the line wire, necessitating repairs.

About 1984, the first time I was back to visit since leaving in 1960, the station was gone, and my friend was deceased. The only remains of the station was one Purington Paver brick which I found in a nearby ditch.