Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1910 — NEW DEPOT PLANS LOOK LIKE BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

NEW DEPOT PLANS LOOK LIKE BUSINESS.

Officials Visit Rensselaer and Discuss Preposition to Erect Fine Station Next Year.

If present plans are carried out the Monon railroad will build a fine new station here next spring, expending something like $20,000 for the station and track improvements. J. M. Caldwell, superintendent of buildings and bridges, accompanied by Engineer Anderson, were in Rensselaer Saturday under instructions from General Manager A H. Westfall, to look over the field for these improvements and have their report ready within a few days. They had with them an architect’s plans for the depot, which provided for a length of 110 feet and a width of 30 feet, provided with agent’s office, waiting room, women’s rest room, toilets, smoking room, etc., also freight house. The structure will consist of boulders and pressed brick. The rock will be used for the building as high as the lower edge of the windows and pressed brick for the remainder. It is probable that the depot will be located two blocks west of the present location, at the Forest street crossing, on the west side of the street. There is only one thlpg that may alter the plan to put the building there and that is the fact that it is near the curve, that might make the starting and stopping of trains difficult. The present depot will be removed if the plans are carried out and the room thus, gained will be utilized in sideerack extension, for which there is a crying need. While the men who were sent here were not instructed to give out any Information about the plans, the matters here set forth were secured in a reliable way by The Republican, and it is thought very probable that building operations will-begin in the early spring.