This was and is an interesting site. You can still walk the rail bed here through the woods. The pilings for that big tower are still there as well as some other remnants of the buildings in the background. Hard to see in the summer from the over growth but in late fall or early spring makes a nice site to explore.
Heres what it looks like
The water tower was right in the middle of those big trees and
the rail
bed is off to the left a little. There is a big white house off to the
right that is not seen in this picture but is in alot of the older
ones.
Seemed it survived better than the rail road did. If only that house
could
talk huh!
Picture of the
South Hero Creamery
Picture of Rail
Bed along Keeler
Bay now Lavigne Road. House on Corner is still there!
Heres some more
Rare Photo's
of the Area in Years Gone By!
(click)
Heres some new pics I
took on a recent visit of the station property. These are all Circa
November 2010:
This is what
is left of the bean factory
Just the
cement pilons it sat on
I found this sitting in the brook on side of the road bed about 500'
south of the bean factory. Looks like a piece of a rail car cause of
the air hose connections. Does anybody know what this could be?
This looks like some belt
pully's from inside the bean factory
Next to the water tower there was a His and Hers "Out
House". I found these pipes going into the ground where it should of
been!
Here's the house in
the pics, still there and pretty much the same.
And the rail bed
looking south as of Nov 2010. This would of been standing in front of
where the station was.
If you Zoom in on the Picture at the Top of the page you will see a Freight cart sitting on the Dock. This one Below came from South Hero Station and could very well be the same one!
And the Original sign still resides on a Building in South Hero, To bad it is not the Station
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