[cripplecreek]

Yeah, lots of little towns popped up along the track in response to it.

There is no railroad here anymore but my house sits on the spot where the local icehouse was. My yard is underlaid with bricks they used to slide blocks of ice off the lake into the icehouse and the track was right behind so the ice could be slid into train cars. There was a mill at the dam about 75 yards away, farms and logging all around.

[Arm_Bears]

And old railroad heads will still reference the “Icehouse” as a landmark, even though it’s been gone for 30+ years.

[NicknamedBob]

"There is no railroad here anymore but my house sits on the spot where the local icehouse was. My yard is underlaid with bricks they used to slide blocks of ice off the lake into the icehouse and the track was right behind so the ice could be slid into train cars. There was a mill at the dam about 75 yards away, farms and logging all around."

Ice, free for the taking, and properly stored, enough to last the year.

But now we have refrigeration and air-conditioning, which requires the energy from oil to produce. Progress, see?