Existing Darke County Stations

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City Railroad Current Location Type Current Use Date Built Track Status Bldg. Mat. Current Railroad Notes
Ansonia CCC&St.L (NYC) End of Michigan St. C Railroad ???? In Use Wood Conrail  
Greenville Cinn.
Northern		 Off Chestnut St. next to Lavy Marathon P Business ???? In Use Wood RJ Corman  
Greenville Dayton & Union Just off of Central Ave 3 blocks SE of Downtown Greenville. F ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? Can anyone confirm this building is a D&U freight depot with a photo and more info?
New Weston Cinn.
Northern		 SR 118 near racetrack
between New Weston
& Rossburg		 C House ???? None Wood None Grain elevator
storage
Union City PCC&ST.L
(PRR)		 ???? P Museum 1893 In Use Brick CR See Notes
Versailles CCC&St. L Versailles Feed & Grain P Business 1919 In Use Wood Conrail Grain elevator
storage
Versailles Tol., Delphos
& Burlington		 North side of town. P ???? 1881 None Brick None See Notes

Notes. . .

Union City - Station is on the Indiana side of Union City. The station was originally built in 1893 at Piqua, Ohio, for the PCC&StL Ry. It was moved in 1912 to Union City, Indiana. It only ever ever served one railroad, the PRR. Brick was added after the station was moved, it is actually a frame station with a brick veneer. As for the notes that it served four railroads in Union City, only three ever existed in that town. The Big 4's station was two blocks east, near the Indian-Ohio line and the D&U had a small station practically across the street. They are all gone. -- Notes by Scott Trostel.

More on Union City from David Allen:

I used to live in Darke County and railfanned and photographed in Union City OH/IN. In 1974, I became acquainted with Joe Fahnestock, who published a booklet titled, Dateline Stateline, Williams, Arcanum, OH, 1974. In it, and in discussions we had, he named the four (4) railroads serving Union City at one time.
New York Central (CCC&StL or Big Four)
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio (Dayton & Union)
 
and the "Indiana and Ohio electric interurban cars"
 
I remember him telling me that the interurban line went up and over all of the other tracks on a trestle to get to "the Broadway (State Line Road ?) loop right behind the depot", closer to town (so passengers did not have to negotiate the busy multiple grade crossings to get to the business district, I suppose.) I recall that, due to the interesting feature of Union City sitting squarely on the state line, this effected the railroad charters and operations. I don't recall the details, except that I am pretty certain he said either the interurban or the D&U was not chartered in Indiana, and their tracks stopped short of there.
 
Finally, as to the depot itself...... notice that in the photo:
 
http://www.armstrongswebsite.com/Trains/DepotAlbum/photos/photo9.html 
 
there is a train marked up on the Big Four side. There is a photo in Joe Fahnestock's book of him in front of the same train board while it was still hanging in the depot. It clearly shows four trains on the Big Four side and none on the Pennsy. The caption indicates: "Last regularly scheduled passenger train out of Union City......" So, the statement, "It only ever served one railroad, the PRR." cannot be correct.
 
Finally, it should be noted that there was never grass and trees between the depot and the tracks while it was in use. The platform was brick, and later repaired / filled-in / extended with concrete. I am pretty certain there were still bricks in place when I was there in the 70's.

Versailles - The original Toledo, Delphos & Burlington narrow gauge station remains at Versailles, though it is some distance from its original site. The station is a transmission repair shop. It sits along an alley often mistaken for the right-of-way for the narrow gauge railroad. It has not served a railroad since 1923.

Darke County Stations Of The Past

Station Railroad Notes
Ansonia CCC&St.L (NYC) The freight station sat about 75 yards to the southeast of the existing passenger station.
Arcanum CCC&St.L The passenger and freight station in the photo sat on Main Street diagonally northeast of the Arcanum Milling Co. and south of the Kaylor Furniture Factory.
Arcanum Dayton & Union (B&O) The D&U passenger station sat on the north side of George Street between Sycamore and High Streets. It was directly across the street from the Commercial Hotel. There were two D&U freight stations in town. One station sat in the southeast quadrant of the crossing with the CCC&St.L and the other was near where the D&U crossed Main Street and was situated across the tracks from the J.C. Smith Grain Elevator (later H.J. Niswonger Elevator, later Miami Valley Tobacco Co. Warehouse).
Gettysburg PCC&St.L
New Madison PRR
Osgood Dayton, Ft. Wayne & Western (CH&D) Was on North Street.
Union City CCC&St.L See notes below.
Yorkshire Dayton, Ft. Wayne & Western (CH&D)

1898 Darke County Railroad Map