CIN was the Chicago & Indiana Railroad that tried to make the western end of Erie work when Conrail abandoned it as redundant.
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| Mark Llanuza posted Photographer Don Ellison captured this cool shot at Kingsland Ind March 1976. Mark Llanuza posted again Matt Myers I stopped in Kingsland a few years ago and it's really hard to see any traces of the EL there today. GS tower & depot are long gone. Some of the ROW is still visible along US 224 in the area. Keith Van Sant The NS is still there. They have a siding on the line just north of the diamond... Matt Myers Somebody pointed out with irony that when the EL was still in existence, the NS line was a slightly run-down branch line, while the EL was a well-kept mainline. No one would've thought the EL would be gone today and the NS line re-worked into the very busy New Castle District that it is today. Justin Gillespie An interurban line used to cross here too. A horrible head on collision occurred about a mile north, killed several. |
According to a 1951 aerial, the tower was in the northwest quadrant. So the piggyback train is eastbound.
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Mark Llanuza posted two photos with the comment: "Photographer Don Ellison captured this cool shots at Kingsland tower and train station March 1976."
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| Mark Hinsdale posted "Kingsland, Indiana" In February, 1975, a westbound Erie Lackawanna (EL) merchandise train rumbles past "GS" Tower, across from the clapboard sided Kingsland IN station. Both structures have received a fairly recent coat of maroon paint. "GS" protected the crossing of EL's New York-Chicago main line and a light density Norfolk & Western (N&W) branch line that once belonged to Nickel Plate Road. At the time, EL provided nearly all the activity, with a healthy number of daily freight trains, while N&W only operated a local service train through Kingsland two or three days a week. Fast forward to 2024, and the situation is completely reversed, with the EL double track line abandoned and removed, a casualty of the creation of Conrail in April, 1976, while the N&W track was totally rebuilt and now serves as an integral part of N&W successor Norfolk Southern's route from Fort Wayne to Cincinnati and points south. Nothing is as constant as change. February, 1975 photo by Mark Hinsdale Marke Hinsdale shared Mark Hinsdale posted again with the same comment Daniel C Carroll Jr.s shared |
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