Yardville Train Station

I don’t have an exact date on this photo, but judging by the cars I would guess the late 1950’s.

This photo was taken as if standing at Broad Street and the Railroad Crossing in Yardville, looking south.

The Small white building in the lower right is now the Pizza Kitchen, at the time it was the office for Totten Feed and Hay. Later it was D’Amico’s Camera Store.

The building next to it is now vacant, but at the time was C.K. Blauth Lumber and Hardware. I am surprised that my father’s car is not parked in front, as a kid I spent a lot of time there with him buying lumber for home projects. The long building with the white roof, in the top of the picture and the black building behind the coal yard, was the lumber yard for C.K. Blauth. I remember you would buy your lumber at the store, and then drive to the yard with two copies of the receipt, one for you and one for Frank. Frank was the guy that ran the yard and cut your lumber. He was a tall thin guy always wore a hat, with a carpenter’s pencil sticking out from under the hat. I remember it like it was yesterday, not fifty years ago.

There were at one time two freight stations, as shown in this photo; one was also a passenger station, at one time. When the passenger station was active, and according to a Yardville map I have dated 1876 there was a Hotel owned by W. King, where the C.K. Blauth Lumber store is located in this photo.

As you can see there are two sets of Coal Elevators, the first set were owned by Martin Brothers, the grade of Anthracite coal is marked on the Elevators, they are Pea, Stove, and Chestnut. The second set of elevators, with the large sign “Coal”, is owned by T.B. Anderson Coal Company, we got ours from T.B. Anderson. When you were a kid, especially a boy, coal delivery day was a big event; after all it involved a dump truck and noise.