Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Calhan
Former Rock Island Line passenger rail station
Location	704 Fourth Street, Calhan, Colorado 80808
History
Rebuilt	1906
Services
Preceding station   Rock Island Line   Following station Peyton toward Colorado Springs Main Line Simla toward Chicago
Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Calhan, Colorado
NRHP reference No.	95000476
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 20, 1995

Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot is a historic railroad station located in Calhan, Colorado, United States. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad provided transportation between Colorado Springs and Kansas until it went into bankruptcy in the early 1970s. The depot, built in 1906, still stands on its original site. The rails were removed and sold for scrap by 1994.

Depot station

The one story depot was built according to a common Rock Island depot plan at the time. It had a waiting room, ticket office, freight storage area and a pot belly coal stove. The building, about 24 by 64 feet (7.3 m × 19.5 m), had wood clapboard siding, and windows facing the train tracks in the passenger waiting area. Station personnel were able to view trains as they entered and left the station from a bay window. Later the wood siding was covered by asbestos siding and there was likely a change in window and door placement from the original design.