Dave's Depots -- Mobile & Ohio R.R. -- Murphysboro, Illinois

Today's installment of Dave's Depots takes us to Murphysboro, Illinois. Murphysboro is the county seat of Jackson County, and as such, has two impressive depots, both of which are along abandoned right of ways.

Today's depot is the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Depot. This depot is about 4 blocks west of the Jackson County Courthouse, along Illinois Route 13. The structure is in very good condition, but it appears as if the last business in this building, "The Depot" eatery, is no more.

Sources indicate the depot was built in 1888. Also, the M&O maintained a large shop complex adjacent to the depot, until a tornado struck the facility in 1925. This depot is along the same M&O line as the previously-featured Sparta, Illinois depot.

The structure is on the national register of historic places.