Author: Barb Nemec
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2025 Railroad Calendars
We have reprinted our most popular calendar for 2025 with historical photos of Railroad Depots all over Lafayette County. Stations are: Darlington, Mineral Point, South Wayne, Gratiot, Dunbarton, Shullsburg, Benton, Belmont, Calamine, Argyle, Blanchardville, and Woodford. Proceeds from sales of the calendars benefits the Depot and Caboose Restoration Fund. You can get one at the…
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New T-Shirts!
New T-Shirts are now available with our tree logo and full name on front and back. Available in Navy or Turquoise, and most sizes. get your by online order or stop in to the Museum, and try one on to double check your size. $15 each. And if you’d like a bargain t-shirt the retired…
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Caboose Benefit Concert
Boy did we have fun! Stump Fiddle re-united for this one night only and played crowd favorites to an appreciative audience. Roughly $3,000 was raised for the Caboose Restoration Fund. Work on the Caboose has been held up by weather but will begin in earnest very soon. Thanks everyone for coming! If you missed it…
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Riding the Rails
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It’s HERE!
Our Caboose is on the tracks beside the Darlington Depot. We can’t get to work on restoration until the weather warms up because step #1 is welding steel patches on any areas that have rusted through or been damaged – and that requires warm weather. But once the weather warms we will get right to…
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NRHS : a New Chapter!
We are forming a new Chapter of NRHS – The National Railway Historical Society! With our efforts to update and improve displays of railroad history at the Darlington Depot, and now working to add a real train car, we want help to be sure we get it right. We found NRHS. There is one other…