Ericson's two-story depot, built 1888, became the first recorded "conversion," conversion into a church, that is. A Methodist congregation acquired the Ericson CB&Q depot in 1940. The first floor served as the church while the pastor's residence was upstairs. After the congregation disbanded in the 1960s, the building was converted again, this time into a hog barn. Photographed September 15, 1968 by Francis G. Gschwind, Callaway, the picture and story is found in Railroad Stations in Nebraska, An Era of Use and Reuse, by Reisdorff and Bartels, South Platte Press.