The first trains through Calhoun on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad arrived in 1881. Milk, grain, sugar, beets, cattle, farm produce, and hops went out on the trains, while brewers grains, saloonkeepers, supplies, farms, machinery, and mail came in. Mail was delivered by horse and rig to the depot at Calhoun Station. The closing of the TM, the nickname for the interurban railway service provided by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co., now a bike path, and the decline of the railroad changed the early hamlet of Calhoun forever. Yet the two old taverns, Calhoun Hall and Elger’s store, still stand on either side of the railroad tracks as they have for more than 100 years, and trains still pass by occasionally at noon.