Elberta Depot

        The building in the back of the depot is an old one room store, with 2 attached “privy’s”; one for “white” and one for “colored”, as it would have been said “in the day”. Things have changed a great deal since then, and since the time this depot was full of peaches leaving Middle Georgia for markets all around. The actual new depot building just south was built during the time of the II World war, and is now the museum in downtown Warner Robins. I do not know if the Elberta Depot as it originally stood was raised on piers as now but that is a southern convention. That was about 1918 when it was operated by the Georgia and Southern Railroad. You can hear the steam chugging, the whistles blowing, and feel the weight of the engine as it rumbles to a stop for another load of peaches! Probably no heat in the building. I suppose it actually was a busseling local depot for passenger service year round in a place which now has been pretty much passed over by development. One thing for sure, there are a whole lot less of these classic depots to be found around the country, and it is nice to see this one.