Richmond, IN: C&O Depot and Freight House?

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The contemporary photo indicates it is along an abandoned route. According to a satellite image, the CSX has abandoned the track north of S G Street. 

Donald Burden posted
The C&O depot has not fared so well, as revealed by the ca. 1908 postcard.

Donald Burden posted

Raymond Storey posted
RICHMOND IND

Brad McClelland posted
C&O station in Richmond, Indiana. The station was located at MP-60 on the now abandoned Miami Subdivision.
January 2, 1984
Robert Daly: In December 1974 I took Amtrak's National Limited from Pittsburgh to Richmond and spent a few hours in this station waiting for the northbound George Washington (now the Cardinal) to Chicago. During the Seventies the GW and Cardinal kept moving from one railroad to another as track conditions deteriorated.

 

Pam Simpson Moleski commented on Brad's post
Rick & I photographed this station 23 years later, looking the worse for wear, on January 24, 2017.

Was the white building the freight house? According to a current satellite image, that building no longer exists.

Street View, Oct 2007

Rob Kunkle posted three photos with the comment: "Richmond Indiana railroad depot. C,R,&M. Then CC&L. Then C&O. Then Chessie. Lastly CSX."

Rob Kunkle shared

[Some comments indicated this is like the depots in New Castle and Peru and that those depots are in better shape.]

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The C&O used to go through town near the river.

1960 Richmond Quad @ 1:24,000

The route through town is abandoned and the route north of the depot is now the Cardinal Greenway trail.

Bryan Monaco posted
The former C&O in Richmond, Indiana, near Main St.
Ken Miller: Coal dock?
John Rose: Ken Miller Yes, the Richmond Gas Co. plant would convert coal to coal gas. Dirty process.
The C&O is now the Cardinal Greenway starting just north of this spot. This section of track is abandoned. A few blocks south the track is in place and ostensibly still in service but the last 2 customers on the south side (Richmond Power & Light and Richmond Recycling Center) are no longer using rail. Nearest customer is an ag products operation roughly 5 miles further south in Boston, Indiana.

Tim Shanahan shared

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Dennis Born posted four photos with the comment: "Off the C&O The abandoned former Amtrak station and depot at 3rd and C st.  rails long ripped up still awesome to see."

Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "Richmond Indiana (C&O station)."

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