Depot

Title	:	Real photo postcard: Illinois Terminal Depot/Station, Gillespie, IL.
Date	:	1950
Description	:	A somewhat out of focus real photo postcard of the IT Depot. This depot, right up to the last day of passenger service on March 3, 1956, was heated by a coal-burning pot belly stove. I would assume that the coal came from nearby, because Gillespie was historically a coal mining community. My maternal grandfather was a coal miner and lived most of his life in Gillespie. There is no publisher or number identified on this card. (Skip Gatermann Collection.)