School trying to save former Grand Trunk Western depot

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School trying to save former Grand Trunk Western depot

Fantastic project. Save history with the help of tomorrow’s trades people. Same thing was a great success in the mid 1980s up the GTW line at the Vicksburg, Mi depot.

Bravo!!!

Why move it? What’s a depot without a railroad track?

My mom and dad went to college at Valparaiso University. We had one family friend living close by to the tracks of the Grand Trunk and recall passenger trains stopping there until Amtrak. I was by the depot last month in my travels, and the building is not all in that bad of shape and is worth preserving. Valparaiso is a college town and a learning center, so moving it to a school campus is appropriate as the building itself will help educate future builders of the construction trade interested in historic preservation, while giving the building a modern renewal.