WAYNE COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Current Use	Date Built	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
Apple Creek		Mill Street and Lance	P	Private	????	None	Block
Fredericksburg		80 yards due north from the intersection of West Clay Street and Water Street	C	Storage	????	Gone	Block
Orrville	AND	145 Depot Street	P	Museum	1868	In Use	Brick
Orrville		Corner of McGill and Pine Streets	F	Storgae	????	In Use	Brick
Rittman		West side of South Main Street between Sterling and Front	C	Railroad	1891	In Use	Wood
Rittman		Intersection of Seneca, Grant, and Erie Streets	P	Business	1913	In Use	Wood
Smithville		Main & N. Milton	P	Business	????	None	Wood
Sterling		Behind a warehouse at Kauffman and Chestnut Streets	F	Storage	????	Gone	Wood
Wooster		Columbus Ave SW of downtown	C	Business	????	In Use	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Apple Creek
Armstrong		This station was built in 1888 (according to the B&O Annual Report of that year).
Burbank		This station was on Depot Road. Technically it was probably over the line in Medina County although most of the town is in Wayne County.
Burton City (Fairview)		This station sat on the west side of Mt. Eaton Road north of Market Street. It was on the south side of the tracks.
Burton City (Fairview)		This station was on the SE corner of Mt. Eaton Road and Burton City Road.
Creston		This station was on Hay Street east of Brooklyn Street. According to Sanborn Fire maps, this station was gone by 1930.
Creston	AND	The Erie and W&LE shared this station. There was a shared freight house to the east and the old Morehead Hotel sat to the west with the interlocking tower between the two.
Easton		This was the first Easton station, built in the early 1880s. It was on the old main line located on the south bend of what is now called Harvey Circle.
EASTON		This was built later (compared to the above) by the B&O. It was probably built when the line was moved to the other side of town.
Fredericksburg		This station was about 80 yards north of the intersection of Clay Street and Water Street on the west side of the tracks. This is probably the building that still exists there (as of 2009) with heavy modifications made by the PRR in later years.
Marshallville		Both the passenger and freight stations sat on the bend in Euclid Street south of Market Street.
Orrville		The passenger station was located near the intersection of Chestnut and McGill Streets. It was on the north side of the tracks on the east side of McGill. The freight station was at the end of West Chestnut Street (the part that is unpaved). Both locations are empty lots as of 2009.
orrville		The CA&C had a freight house NW across the tracks from the passenger station.
Orrville		A frame station predated the 1868 station. It was on Main Street and was destroyed by fire in 1867.
Overton		This station sat on Winkler Road south of Mechanicsburg Road. It was on the west side of the tracks.
Rittman		The first station on this line was located at the corner of Main and Elliot Streets. After the new passenger station was built in 1913, this station served as the freight-only depot for a few years, but was gone by 1924. This station sat on what is now part of Erie Street.
Shreve		This station was located on the west side of Market Street between Jones and Robinson Streets. It built sometime prior to 1892, and was torn down around 1963 with the bricks used as fill for a southern extension of Market Street.
Smithville Station
Sterling	AND	A NYP&O-designed, v-shaped union station sat on the south side of Atlantic Street about 50 yards east of Lake Street. This station was still visible on maps from 1908.
Sterling	AND	This station was a standard B&O design. It was built in the early 1900s and sat at the same location as the station listed above.
West Salem		This station was on what was formerly known as Depot Street. This location is now known as Centennial Street. The station was at the south of the end of 2nd Street toward 3rd Street (which is now gone).
Wooster		Photo is from the late 1970s.
Wooster		A freight house was built here in 1888 (according to the B&O Annual Report of that year).
1898 WAYNE COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Apple Creek (PRR) - Was this station moved to its current location? Is that location correct? This may be the original CA&C station after undergoing the heavy modification program that the PRR performed on old CA&C structures in later years. See Killbuck (Holmes Co.) and Sunbury (Delaware Co.) as other examples. Fredericksburg (PRR) - Building is block but covered with shingling. Sits about 200 yards off Clay St. behind old feed mill. Old CA&C milepost nearby. This may be a part of the original station as maps from 1897 show the original station at this same location. It looks like it underwent the extreme PRR makeover of removing most of its distinguishing features and was then chopped into a smaller piece. Either that or this was a later PRR station. Orrville (PFt.W&C and CA&C) - Home of the Orrville Railroad Heritage Society. The new W&LE bought these tracks from Norfolk Southern back in the early 90's, when the new W&LE was established. See OrrvilleRailroad.com for more information. Orrville (PFt.W&C Frieght) - When the railroad abandoned the freight station, most likely in the 1950's, it was connected to the Orrville Body Company building (now a storage/manufacturing facility for the Wilburt company). The windows are the same shape as the union depot. Smithville (W&LE) - Moved here from the tracks in the late 1970s. Sterling (CL&W) - It was previously reported as torn down, but this was not the case as Mike Lytle photographed it in 2006. It is behind a warehouse that was built in the early 2000s. Maps from 1897 and 1908 show a B&O passenger or freight station located on the west side of Kauffman Street just south of Atlantic Avenue (to the NW of where the old passenger station sat).