Slightly less than six miles east of Elmhurst is the town of Moscow, long a passenger stop for the EL's inter-city trains. Down-graded to a flag stop in about 1960, by the end of passenger service in 1970 the passenger station sat vacant and the building deteriorated until it was restored in about 1993.

The passenger station was built in about 1911. The photo below, dated June 2, 1917, depictes the station in its heyday. The photograph is from the Lackawanna glass negative collection, housed at Steamtown.




By September 1972 the building's condition had deteriorated significantly and had been boarded up. The passenger walkway over the tracks had been removed, as had the electric service:




The Moscow Freight station is located about 200 feet north (railroad west) of the passenger station. By 1975 it, too, was in poor condition:




And here's a shot of from the Steamtown Collection of the building before restoration (date and photographer are unknown):




To the north of the passenger station is a roadway underpass, today painted in a lively green and white, but in 1975 it was unpainted concrete. I don't have a picture from 1975, but below is a picture from 2011:




Click here to see the model version.