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Monon Property => Buildings and Bridges => Topic started by: Ron Marquardt on February 26, 2012, 02:17:05 pm

Title: Romney Depot
Post by: Ron Marquardt on February 26, 2012, 02:17:05 pm

How about a nice Sunday afternoon surprise?  A very rare picture of the Romney depot.  Before you ask David, I got it at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago.   ;)  / Ron

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Roger Nulton on February 26, 2012, 05:03:18 pm

Thanks for the photo, Ron.  Does anyone know what the colors would have been?  On my layout, they are red and gray: a guess I made years ago and have been sticking to, because it looks neat and I have not seen a color image to contradict it.
Roger Nulton

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Ken Weller on March 11, 2012, 09:41:30 pm

A different picture of Romney depot.

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Ron Marquardt on March 11, 2012, 10:48:30 pm

Interesting picture Ken.  Wonder what the Jno stands for?  / Ron

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Ken Weller on March 11, 2012, 11:07:35 pm

Jno may stand for Junior. 

Here is another picture of a Romney depot; I think it predates the one in the other 2 pictures;
look at the brackets holding up the roof, and also whether there is part of the building
that sticks out trackside for the operator to see.

Didn't the railroad have a different name for Romney?

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Joe Land on March 11, 2012, 11:14:56 pm

Ron,
Jno is abbreviation for Johnathon. 

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Ron Marquardt on March 12, 2012, 01:12:20 am

Thanks Joe, I appreciate it.  That Romney picture is neat Ken.  Obviously taken during a period when the mileposts were numbered from the south to the north?  / Ron

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Tim T Swan on March 12, 2012, 08:46:56 pm

Quote from: Ken Weller on March 11, 2012, 11:07:35 pm

Didn't the railroad have a different name for Romney?

Corwin

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Robert Gibson on March 12, 2012, 11:25:54 pm

I took some photos of the Wanatah depot in 1974.  The paint was badly faded but looked to be red and grey.

Bob Gibson

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Tom Kepshire on March 13, 2012, 12:03:38 am

Quote from: Roger Nulton on February 26, 2012, 05:03:18 pm

Thanks for the photo, Ron.  Does anyone know what the colors would have been?

Here is a screen capture of the Lowell depot from the DVD Birth of a Train. It appears that the lower portion is a dark red and the upper half, either a gray or creme color. I realize this is not the clearest image but it's all that I have.

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Ron Marquardt on March 13, 2012, 07:33:01 am

That may not be a very clear picture Tom, but so far it's the only one I've seen.  I just checked the archive depot pictures.  We have 567 photos, and not one colored photo of a depot painted in the wide band wainscoating paint scheme.  Lots of green ones though.  Blugh.  / Ron

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Tom Kepshire on March 13, 2012, 11:57:20 pm

I called my Mom's sister Shirley today and asked if she remembered the colors of the old wooden depot. Shirley said the lower part was a dark red and the upper was a light shade of grey. She gave me another number of a longtime Lowell businessman who also recalled the red and light grey color scheme. Hope this information helps. Color photos are few and far between.

Title: Re: Romney Depot
Post by: Roger Nulton on March 24, 2012, 02:10:15 am

Hey, thanks a bunch, you guys.  I really appreciate the information!  Somehow I didn't notice your replys until now.  Still learning how to use the Board.
Thanks again, Roger