 |
| Tim Shanahan shared Brian J Hadley's photo |
Brian's comment:
Before & After: The once busy interlocking between the Pennsylvania & Nickel Plate at Elwood, Indiana as Marvin Crim saw it in 1971. After in 2010 when Robert J Della-Pietra and I saw it. The tower was shut down in March of 1976 with the track being abandoned in August 1976.Another victim of Conrail.
It is Pennsy's
Panhandle route that was torn up. It looks like the second building past the tower may have been a freight house with a concrete floor at boxcar door height because I see a concrete relic is still left. Was the first building the depot? The resolution is not good enough to spot a bay window. The view is looking northwest and the NS/NKP/Lake Erie & Western track would have been by the photographers feet.
A remnant of the Panhandle remains as an industrial spur for
Red Gold, which packages tomato products. The satellite image I looked at showed 10 tank cars parked on a siding. Browsing their web site, I don't think they are shipping tomato juice, or any other product, by tank car. I know ketchup has sugar in it. But does it have enough sugar that they receive corn syrup by the tank-car load?
No comments:
Post a Comment