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| Carl Venzke posted Pennsy and Monon crossing at Limedale, Indiana. An interlocking tower and station are nestled between the tracks where the Monon crosses the two tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Love this shot  😉 Look and you can see a train on the Monon.Jose Vicente Sendin also posted Pennsy and Monon crossing at Limedale, Indiana. An interlocking tower and station are nestled between the tracks where the Monon crosses the two tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Danny Bryant A good place to be careful. |
The tower was on the south side of the junction, and a 1969 aerial photo confirms that the five smokestacks on the right side of the photo were part of an earlier version of the cement plant. Evidently, after the quarry grew, they moved the plant so that they could use more modern methods and to shorten the truck runs.
The Pennsy was abandoned by Conrail because it was redundant with the NYC/Big Four route just north of it and NYC had the big Avon Yard west of Indianapolis. The short line Terre Haute, Brazil & Eastern (TBER) was formed to save the Pennsy route between Terre Haute and the cement plant that is south and east of Limedale. But the TBER was abandoned by 2005. CSX got the NYC route when Conrail was split up. CSX also has the Monon route because L&N bought it. The former-Monon route looks better on the Bing aerial than on the Google image because of tree shadows on the Google image. When I first looked at the Google satellite image, I thought that CSX was letting this route fall apart. But the ballast does look fresh (white).
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