Decatur, IN: Grand Rapids & Indiana Depot

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Street View, Jul 2024

Greg Bunce posted
Decatur, Indiana looking north August 22, 1978.

Locomotive Jordan posted
May 1989, we view the former Grand Rapids & Indiana / Pennsylvania Railroad depot at Decatur, IN. Photo was taken by Bruce Emmons, it is out of my collection

Jack Kinney: Worked that station as a relief agent in the 70,s. Very busy place with unit trains Central Soya back then. Agent Yardmaster.............

Tim Shanahan shared

Craig Jon Berndt commented on Tim's share

This was the Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad, which, like GR&I, was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Company, and later the Pennsylvania Railroad, etc.

GR&I ran south from Mackinaw City, Michigan, and ended at a connection to the PFW&C at Junction tower near Swinney Park in Ft. Wayne. CR&FW’s track extended south from Adams Junction in New Haven to Richmond. Trains operating on them ran on PRR’s PFW&C track between Junction and Adams.

PRR had GR&I lease and operate CR&FW for the first 50 years. With trackage rights on PFW&C and PRR or its other subsidiaries, it appeared that GR&I operated from Mackinaw City to Cincinnati. In later years the trains carried PRR marks, but the timetables said GR&I. It was good marketing strategy.

PRR operated CR&FW 1921-1927, when CR&FW was merged into PRR’s PCC&SL (“Pan Handle”). PCC&SL was merged into PRR’s Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington RR in the 1950s. PC and CR owned everything from and after 1968.

It’s a beautiful building. This photo was taken by Sid Pepe in 1961.