Victoria Station
The Victoria Station in Harlan, Iowa was once a railroad station. I interviewed my grandpa, and he said he remember it as a boy. He would take papers back and forth from his dad’s gas station to the railroad station. That was in the year of 1935 through 1975. All of the local supplies were controlled by the station and the ins and outs of products. When my grandpa was 15 he delivered tickets that the gas transports were empty, and one day he got hit by a train in Harlan. The truck was totaled, and my grandpa luckily survived. My great great grandpa had a grocery store in Jacksonville. He would get groceries delivered in a fright car that was left in Harlan. These cars were controlled by the old railroad station in about 1918. He also was with a horse team and wagon to pick up freight, and take out the freight from the store. While the team and the wagon was in town, the team ran away. They ran over a man on the square. Each time they came to town through the winter they would drop off grocery’s for the injured man and his family. In this time, they never had delivery trucks like we do today. Everything was delivered by railroad. Things would get delivered to the rail road station which is now Victoria station. My grandpa estimated the Victoria Station came about around the 1970s to the late 80’s.
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