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Mendota, Illinois. Train Station - Station Building (with waiting room) 783 Main Street. Mendota, IL 61342. Directions. In addition to a passenger waiting area, the building houses the Union Depot Railroad Museum where one can admire a working HO model of central Mendota in the 1930s.
The museum has a waiting room for trains that stop in Mendota, a large HO model railroad layout depicting Mendota with its grand railroad station, display rooms with railroad artifacts, and an extensive railroad library. Union Depot Railroad Museum is an MMHS museum and a Amtrak station stop.
Mendota, IL train station. Origianlly buiilt in 1886 by Illinois Central and highly modified and restored since. Now used by Amtrak and the Union Depot Railroad Museum.
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The current Amtrak station in Mendota is a brick structure. Mendota rail travelers originally used the Passenger House, a combination depot and hotel, which was built in 1853, as a place to change trains going to and from Chicago and St. Louis.
Union Depot Railroad Museum. The restored portion of the 1888 Union Depot provides a perfect setting for a memorable, lifelike HO train layout of Mendota in the 1930s and railroad memorabilia. Explore.
Mendota station is an Amtrak intercity train station at 783 Main Street, Mendota, Illinois, United States. The station was originally built on February 23, 1888, by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, as a replacement for the former Union Depot that was built in 1853 and burned down in 1885. It originally contained a hotel, restaurants ...
- October 20, 1853
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- Mendota Museum and Historical Society
- 8th Street and 6th Avenue, Mendota, Illinois
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