The two houses to the left are still there. The house on the right is there and the dark building behind the tree burned down in 1946 and took the freight house, which is the building in the background between the loco and the depot . Before 1905 between the car house on the right side of the photo and the house was a water tower. The elevator was rebuilt but the railroad never rebuilt the freight house . This was located at mile post 193.3 , the mileage from St. Joseph Michigan . This was the start of the 1% grade with a reverse curve south bound . If you go north 5mile to Knightstown you have another 1% grade, both letting the trains out of Blue River Valley and both are about 2.5-3 mile long . There also was a siding at the top of each hill used to double trains when need be.
LEW

Fairmount Big 4 depot - 1905
View of the Big 4 depot railroad station in Fairmont, Indiana in 1905. The one story wooden building is located next to the railroad tracks. A signal is mounted in the middle of the structure. Some empty freight wagons are in the loading area.
Photographer: unknown

Another photo of the same station taken a later.
Photo supplied by Robbie Blue

Milroy Big Four Depot - 1915
The depot stood at main street and the railroad. East of the depot was the elevator. The siding switch was about five car lengths north of the depot and held about 25 cars. At about a third of the way from the south end of the siding, there were two tracks, one for the elevator and the other used as a house track and team track.
Marc Haston Collection

Sandusky Big Four Depot - 1912
Sandusky had an elevator, store, blacksmith, etc. and after 1900, a depot, but was not a block or train order station at this time. There was a siding located and it was a regular stop for one passenger train each way and a flag stop for two others.
Maurice Lewman Collection.

The first photo was probably about the same time as the second and the photo taken from the freight house is the second. The passenger train was taken off in April of 1950 and I bwgan work in August of 1950. Every building in both photos were gone by 1950. The siding in the first photo was gone and the freight house in the second including the water spout was gone. The two main tracks were the PRR high iron from the windy city to Ft. Wayne and points east. The loco in the first photo was a 4-4-0. The second photo is a 4-4-0, 7092, Built 4/89. - Maurice Lewman

Milwaukee Road Depot Circa 1900-1905
Also, the old "Southern" (Milwaukee Road) scheduled several trains a day, including passenger trains, and many railroaders layed-over in Westport, taking rooms at the Owens hotel building and at other rooming houses in town, including the Low Hotel which burned in 1911.