A Defunct Depot Turned Railway Museum

A Defunct Depot Turned Railway Museum

The town of DeQuincy, Louisiana was founded at the intersection of two major railroad lines in 1895, just 25 miles outside of Lake Charles. Today, artifacts from those two railroads are housed in a century-old train depot that looks refreshingly out of place in the southwest Louisiana landscape. Most train depots built in the early 20th century were done so in the Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, or standard utilitarian style. When the Missouri Pac…