Looking as though the welcoming crowds had left earlier in the day, this was the end of the line for Truman’s 1948 whistle stop campaign when he famously defeated Thomas Dewey --- an upset victory which had the embarassed Chicago Tribune eating its pre-printed “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline. That train ride of almost 22,000 miles won the campaign for Truman. And it was this depot to which he returned to waving local supporters after leaving the Presidency in 1953.