Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, Train Depot Museum

1997, Placed on National Register of Historic Places

depot from north

Depot museum is open Saturday mornings, 9 -- noon
1200 s. 4th or 401 Collins, Oregon, Il. 61061

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Dick, Cain, Head
Otto Dick, Roger Cain (president of restoration group) and David Head discuss plan for outside-Depot construction. Additional members are Bonnie Hendrickson, Skip Johnson and Richard Roads.
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bicycle facility
bicycle facility at left, behind sign and bench
laying bricks
Randy Travis laying bricks

Felicitously, Oregon Depot restoration group has completed providing, outside Oregon Depot, facilities to host bicycling, including seats, water fountain, bicycle service equipment, and maps of bicycle routes in Ogle County (picture right).  Further Depot work planned are reproduction of original wood seats in waiting room, reproduction of a train schedule to be displayed, fence to separate platform area from tracks (for safety of visitors), and refinishing of floors.

A room at Depot is devoted to those who served in U.S. military. It presents pictures of service-people, decorations, letters, and uniforms. As all people who entered military service did so from county seats, and Oregon is one.  During time when rail-roads were main form of long distance transportation, all service people from Ogle county passed thru Oregon Depot.

Average of 10-12 people visit Oregon Depot during each week's opening: Saturday morning 9-12. Depot is owned by City Oregon and staffed by volunteers.

Pioneer
Wikipedia: Pioneer is the name of the first railroad locomotive to operate in Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1837 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Utica and Schenectady Railroad (U&S) in New York, then purchased used by William B. Ogden for the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU, the oldest predecessor of Chicago and North Western Railway). The locomotive arrived in Chicago by schooner on October 10, 1848, and it pulled the first train westbound out of the city on October 25, 1848.
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Crescent Limited
Southern Railway Ps-4 class, 4-6-2
Union Pacific 'Big Boy'
Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 'Challenger'
Union Pacific 'Big Boy'
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'

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