| A CN local passes the station sign and approaches S. Nash St./Hwy. M (originally Oshkosh St.) as it heads southeast with six cars via former C&NW rails at Hortonville, WI on 6 Jan. '19. I believe that the depot stood a little closer to S. Nash St./Hwy. M than the station sign currently does. It is difficult to believe that there used to be five tracks here. The historic Peter Olk’s Elevator (a.k.a. Olk’s Elevator), 136 W. Dewey St., is partially visible above the train. The oldest part of the facility dates to at least 1894, when it was the W. L. Root Grain & Potato Warehouse. A 10,000-bushel elevator was added to the facility in 1908, about the time that Olk acquired it. A couple of other additions have been erected since then. Circa 1910, Peter Olk was a “dealer in grain, flour, feed, salt, lime and cement.” In 1934 the facility became the home of Schneider’s Feed Mill (a.k.a. Schneider Elevator, a.k.a. Schneider Multifeed) (a purveyor of feed for livestock and pets), and operated as such until at least 2006. Black Otter Supply is the facility’s most recent occupant (a bird seed store). Partially visible at right is the historic Schwebs’ Hotel, later Hotel Jungmann, later Hotel Hoffman, currently Black Otter Supper Club, 503 S. Nash St. (originally Oshkosh St.), built in 1877. The local was headed back from New London to Appleton. |