Farewell

Locals gather at the Douglas Depot to see off the very last train to run the Mansfield Branch Line. The pictures above were taken by Alan Loebsack on March 2, 1985, 76 years after the line opened. One year later the line would be ripped out. The wood ties would go to landscape supply companies and the steel rails where shipped to Korea to be melted down. In late 1993, the depot would see the same fate as it was burned down thus eliminating almost any evidence a railroad ran through the area.