The building was originally a weigh station that was used from the early 1930’s as a place to unload and weigh goods from the train and for the Train Depot. The building is the original weight station for the Train Depot built in the 1920’s by the Madsen Family as a place to unload wood and coal. It was used as a local train weigh station until 1978 when the buildings were abandoned. In 2012 the grandson David Madsen purchased the property from his uncle and began to create the new weigh station - built around the existing buildings and scale area.