143 years ago a train depot was built of the finest cut limestone available in frontier Iowa on the new Chicago & North Western line. To call it rural would be an understatement. For transportation, there was nothing but a few dirt roads and the rivers. Despite the Civil War raging in the east, the railroad reached Quarry in 1863. Back in that day it would have been like the space shuttle landing in your front yard. An 1860's vintage steam locomotive was the fastest, most high tech machine on the face of the earth. The whole town would come down and marvel when the train came into the station. Over 100,000 trains have since passed by and continue to this day. With one foot in the 19th century and the other in the 21st, we have quite a story to tell. Fires, floods and blood. Death, drama and derailments, this depot has seen it all.
