Comments on: Train Depots

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:29:28 +0000

Just wanted to point out that the Newfoundland Train depot featured in The Station Agent is located in Jefferson Township, right on the borders of West Milford and Rockaway, about 17 miles away from Dover, NJ (I live right next to the Newfoundland station.) It’s a lovely little structure located near 2 mid-sized fields, and during 70s and early-80s, the local fire company would host a fair/carnival there. Today, the field is largely abandoned, but there appears to be a small group working to repair and restore the main building, and the few remaining adjoining structures and train cars.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:56:20 +0000

Thanks estatik for the awesome photos! I loved looking through your portfolio. I wish we had more of these train depots where I live.

By: estatik

estatik — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:38:51 +0000

How nice and surprising to find my photos used for this story. I have been documenting the stations along the New York, Susquehanna & Western for a while now and most of the stations are long gone. The ones that do survive are in various states of repair- from a fully restored statin in Maywood to the “swallowed” station in Bagota, NJ. Feel free to see the rest of my station photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/estatik/sets/72157607543922458/

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:19:41 +0000

Hi Warren – thanks for the link and letting the Tiny House Blog know about it. Much appreciated…Kent

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:11:41 +0000

HGTV.COM has an article about this at

http://www.hgtv.com/home-improvement/train-depot/index.html

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:05:14 +0000

We almost bought a house that had an old train depot in the backyard, and was used as a garage. It was really cool, and was seriously my favorite thing about the house. In the end we didn’t buy it because the house wasn’t right for us and the location was terrible.

I’ve always thought an old school would be a great house. A one-room schoolhouse would be amazing, and definitely big enough for a house, especially if you added a loft bedroom.

And on the very, very NOT tiny side, there was a big old high school in my old hometown. It had been abandoned years earlier, but it had so many really great old features. It would have made an amazing huge house, or group of apartments. (Darn asbestos ruining everything!)

By: Ilana

Ilana — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:17:54 +0000

“The Station Agent”…one of my favorite movies, no my favorite movie ever! Thanks for this post. There’s a remodeled train station in Talent, Oregon where I live. It has a coffee shop and some offices in it. Not tiny, but oh so charming…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:17:23 +0000

We had a lake cabin when I was growing up that was an old depot. 3 rooms, Kitchen, Living Room, Bedroom. It was 16×36 and built solidly.

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:48:32 +0000

There was an old train depot building, quite small, in Sausalito, CA. I’m not sure if it was in the original location by the time I moved there, but it was charming. At the time, it was being used as the offices for an architectural firm.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:38:33 +0000

I was thinking of the Berkeley Springs, WV train depot as I read this, and I went to Flickr to see if I could find a picture of it… and lo and behold, someone has a whole set of train depot pictures up!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/sets/72157594538100644/