The Painesville Depot was opened in 1893, under the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Line. This was a very proud building in its day. The entire building cost was $18,075.00. The style of the building is Richardsonian Romanesque and the Architect was Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge from Boston, Massachusetts.
Painesville depot 1898
Painesville depot 1910
Painesville depot looking east 1914
Depot 1915
World War II
Men going to war
band playing wishing them fairwell
Men going to war
men going to war, Painesville
Men going to WWII, Painesville
men going to war, 1943
Nazis Surrender
Painesville train depot 1948
E-8 NYC passenger train 1961
Painesville, OH, LS&MS(NYC) Depot, Look SW 1967
depot 1962
staton 2-1-2020
GPS Marker
Mile Marker
Ohio Historical Marker
PD article LCHS depot
On October 22nd, 1997 the Western Reserve Railroad Association was born to save the Painesville Depot. The Western Reserve Railroad Association is dedicated to the restoration of the NYC Painesville Depot. Now the WRRA is doing business as the Painesville Railroad Museum.
