Just outside of town on Washburn Road along the Cedar Valley Nature Trail sits a brick building that holds treasures from a time when Waterloo and its surrounding towns thrived as a “railroad town.”
The Gilbertville Depot, built between 1912 and 1915, housed the Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Railway, which was one of four railroads that ran through town.
“Waterloo was kind of a railroad town, but it’s largely forgotten,” said Dick Dewater, president of the Friends of the Gilbertville Depot nonprofit organization.