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| Jason Jordan posted |
Jason's comment:
Early 1980's, we are looking south along the Family Lines / Seaboard System (ex. MONON Rwy.) at Medaryville, IN. The elevator was originally owned by the Pulaski County Co - op. Currently it is owned by Co Allinance Co - op and still see's 65 car trains of outbound grain and inbound fertilizer cars off of the CSX. At the time of this photo, the extra gondola's were being loaded with railroad scrap. Track was being removed between Medaryville and Michigan City, IN. Original photographer unknown, out of the Jason Jordan collection.
This is the only elevator I could find in that town. It looks like they replaced the concrete silos with some really tall bins. I used the Bing image instead of the Google image because the sun was lower, and it is easier to compare the length of the shadows of the bins to those of the regular buildings and houses. This is the first time I have seen concrete silos removed. Normally they just add bins and use both.
Since the tracks stop north of town at the river, they don't have to worry about clogging the mainline when they load the unit trains. This elevator is probably the only reason CSX didn't rip out the tracks to this town.
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