Here is another view of the depot building which currently houses the post office, the library and the community center
We arrived in Avery to find a new addition to the depot grounds here shown behind the historic fish pond.
This interested me because of the Nystrom trucks
carrying it.
Before leaving the
depot area we walked through the old diner/lounge.
After taking our luggage up to our motel room we drove around exploring:
RoW east
RoW west
Looking back toward the bridge
Looking back from that same site toward town
Our “motel room” was
really an apartment in this building [DSC03700.jpg] which was one of at
least four built by the Milwaukee for family housing for its employees.
The interior
“appointments” were dated.
Our “favorite Avery
restaurant” was THE only Avery restaurant!
We
traveled west from the approximate position of the Avery East Switch [MP
= 1793.8]. Following Stan’s Johnson’s description as closely as I could
I place the site of that switch at about here, looking eastbound.
Looking west.
Back through town we
again photographed the four “railroad flats,” the old bungalows of the
substation operators.
The one on the left is
owned by the mother-in-law of the gentleman who owns the Avery Trading
Post.
The Avery Substation
site was in the street east of the dining car, where the signal is
standing.
