Original: (
Satellite, there was a house track behind the depot and a grain elevator north of Small St.)
There is a Monon caboose under the shelter at the far end of the depot.
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This museum is the world headquarters of the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society.
The formal name for this facility is The Depot at the John Hay Center. It is "a replica of the Monon station that served Salem from 1909 until it was closed in 1973 and demolished in 1982."
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posted four photos with the comment:
This week’s Monon Monday was Salem. Here’s some pictures from back in the day.
Salem is one of the locations for this year’s MRHTS 50th Anniversary Convention and any attendees will have the opportunity to hike this section of trail. We’d love to see you there 🥳
Enjoy the old time pictures!
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I wonder when they replaced the above depot with the current one.
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This reminds me that the original name for the Monon was the Chicago, Indiana & Louisville.
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| 1950/50 Salem Quad @ 24,000 |
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"Prominent in the history of the Monon Railroad, Salem was the birthplace of the New Albany and Salem Railroad. In the spring of 1847 James Brooks and six associates, Henry B. Shields, W.C. DePauw, Samuel Reid, John Gordon, V.C. Campbell and John S. Davis organized the New Albany and Salem Railroad. Brooks intention in 1851 was to build from New Albany to Lake Michigan, but he chose the name New Albany to Salem out of a desire to appear conservative in his ambitions and not frighten investors with a plan that might appear to big in scale. In January 1851, the first train arrived in Salem, greeted by 5,000 people who had gathered for this great event. As a shrill whistle was heard from east of town, bands played, bells rang and cannons boomed as the crowd shouted, “Here she comes! Here she comes!”" |
The museum has a large layout.
Here is another part of that layout.
And they are still working on scenes in between the above two scenes.
If you look above the partition in Jon's photo above, you can see a train on tracks that are hanging from the ceiling. They can stage rather long trains on those tracks.
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"This aerial photo of downtown Salem taken in 1975 shows the courthouse in the center. In the foreground is Smith Cabinet Company, at one time the area's largest employer and the Monon's biggest customer in Washington County. -Courtesy Cecil Smith.-"
[At the left edge, we can see the grain elevator that is in Photo 4 above. The depot would be just out of frame to the left.]
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"A portion of The Depot Museum is exclusively for the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society, Inc. for Board Of Directors meetings, storage and display of its archives." [
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I wonder if this addition on the backside of the depot houses the Historical Society.
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