But what is known — and what railroad devotees soon revealed online — is the building was actually an old train depot that serviced Prairie Home south of Waverly on the Chicago Rock Island ...

This once popular song was not popular among long-suffering customers of the Chicago ... even on the eccentric Rock Island, the automobile, equipped with railroad wheels, that came down the ...

Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the ...