Most people think the golden age of train travel is over, but at Marion’s Train Station Pancake House, the depot is still serving the community, just with significantly better pancakes than the original snack bar probably offered.
The building sits there on the corner looking exactly like what it used to be, a proper train station with all the architectural charm that comes with early 20th-century depot design.
Those wide, sweeping eaves that once kept rain and snow off waiting passengers now shelter hungry breakfast seekers, which is honestly a more delicious purpose.
The roofline alone tells you this building has stories to tell…