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Indiana_Jawnz t1_j7dudzr wrote

My mom grew up on Nixon street and she knew the family who were the stationmasters here. They were the same family for like 100 years or something like that.

I truly hope they follow through and restore this building.

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MeEvilBob t1_j7eouy7 wrote

I love that the reason the station building is two story is because back in the day the stationmaster and their family would live in an apartment above the station, that way there's someone there on site 24/7. It's kind of a lighthouse deal, which makes sense considering that back before all the development, stations like this one really were in the middle of nowhere.

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Indiana_Jawnz t1_j7gv3bf wrote

Nixon street was so much more isolated and quiet just 20 years ago when I was a kid. Back in the 1970s and before it was about as close to the country as you could get inside of city limits.

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