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| Alan Culley posted A sad looking sight, looking west from the CL & LE&W diamond at Buckeye St. in Kokomo. These look like dead tracks as they haven't seen use for quite some time. I used to walk across and throw the target for what ever movement there was. Ed Bell The tracks are still there, so there is still hope! Alan Culley To the west several grade crossings have been cut or paved over and bridges removed. To the east it has fared better with the Central RR operating to Marion.and the NS. |
This junction is the lower-left corner of the triangle of tracks in the middle of this map. See Water Tower for details concerning the map.
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| INDOT 2005, zoomed |
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| Steven Grigg posted Every since our home flooded last August I've had trouble finding things that I know survived. Most of my railroad photo collection did and I knew I had photographed the operator's little office at Kokomo where the LE&W Dist. crossed the Clover Leaf. Well, I finally found those shots that I've been wanting to post for Alan Culley. I took the two photos April 27, 1985. |
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| Steven Grigg posted This is the second view I took of the Operator's building at Kokomo, IN. The double-tracks are the LE&W running north & south. The interchange track is behind the building that connected to the Clover Leaf. |
Joseph Tuch Santucci posted five photos with the comment: "In Kokomo, IN there were once three railroads that ran through town. This was in addition to two inter urban lines. The three railroads crossed each other and manual crossings at grade. This series of photos are from the crossing between the LE&W/NKP/N&W/CERA Indianapolis-Michigan City line and the T&StL/NKP/N&W/NS/CERA/back to NS Cloverleaf line that ran from the original namesake cities of Toledo, OH and St Louis, MO. Both lines have been out of service through this crossing for well over a decade. Both lines were leased out to the Central Railroad of Indianapolis for a time. The Cloverleaf is still active a little east of here beginning at Grand Jct where it connects to the former PRR Logansport-Richmond, IN line east to Marion, IN. The IMC is out of service but mostly intact and now owned by Kokomo Grain. CERA gave up service and the lease on the portion they operated well over a decade ago. Kokomo Grain acquired it from Kokomo south to Tipton to protect its business interests but does not use it. The Industrial Heritage Trail is immediately adjacent to it through town so getting photos is extremely easy. From this crossing west through much of town is the Cloverleaf trail. There are plans to extend it completely through the west end of town and to Michigantown, IN with long term plans to extend it further to Frankfort, IN. All trains had to stop and a crew member had to unlock and manually operate the signal here and proceed. All photos from August 20[, 2021?]."
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| 1 Looking east on the Cloverleaf. Grand Junction, the PRR/Cloverleaf crossing is a few city blocked east of here. The IMC is actually single track but the track closest to the camera is actually a short siding and lead into an industry off to the right. NS actually resumed control of the Cloverleaf for a time after CERA gave up the lease on the portion between Kokomo and Frankfort. |
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| 2 Looking west on the Cloverleaf. The rail ends about two city blocks west of here and the Cloverleaf trail heads west on the old right of way. The end of the track is near The Train Exchange hobby shop. |
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| 3 Love looking south on the Cloverleaf. Off the south end of the siding here is the switch to go into the industry. |
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| 4 There were lights on the signal at one time. |
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| 5 The lever to operate the signal. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Joseph's post The route of the LE&W through Kokomo was east of the one that went to Michigan City. This is a copy of an INDOT map that I had marked up with yellow lines to highlight the LE&W routes when I studied the history of the NKP. https://maps.indiana.edu/.../Railroads_Active_Abandoned... (The blue line is the original NKP mainline and the green line is the Cloverleaf.) |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Joseph's post I accessed this 1953 topo map to see how the railroads crossed each other in Kokomo. I have zoomed out to capture the two Panhandle routes in this area. I'm dismayed that the railroads are labeled with 1970s names instead of 1950s names. Topo maps normally don't have a mistake of this magnitude. 1953 Danville Quadrangle @ 1:250,000 In a 1956 map, the routes are labeled New York Chicago & St. Louis and Pennsylvania. |
LE&W Freight House
In 2009, locomotives were parked on the siding.
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| Street View, Jun 2009 |
Now there are no locomotives, but the loading platform has been transformed into outside eating.
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| Street View, Aug 2019 |
The freight handling part is now a brewery.
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| Eric S, Feb 2021 |
It appears to have survived the Covid-19 impact of eateries.
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| Greg Jones, Aug 2021 |
And the office building part still seems to be an office building.
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| Street View, Aug 2019 |
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| Trevor Whited, Jul 2022 [This is another historical society that does not understand the difference between a freight house and a depot.] |
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