Isn't the station on the other side of the tracks now? If so what happened.
That is correct. From the book on Winchester that I just bought:
"In March 1914 it burned to the ground when boxes of millinery piled near the stove caught fire. Station agent H.T.Coombs saved some of the money and part of the mileage books. George Poizer, the telegraph agent, saved most of his record and the freight records. The building's loss was put at $2500, plus an aditional loss of $1200 from the tank house, which also burned."
When the ICC survey was done for the valuation plans, one of the two freight houses was being used as a temporary station. The new station was built next to the freight house, much closer to the road. There is an Authorization For Expenditure record dated 6/21/1915 for $6700 to rebuild the station. A bit more than the previous figure. They also added a "water station" in October 1915. The B&M sold the land, station, and freight house to a couple, Paul & Edythe Mannos, in 1960. There are six AFE records in a row of them buying stations from the railroad. One station I can understand, but why would someone want six?
