(Update: Monon also did street running in Bloomington, IN.)
Before I found reference material that indicated the Monon used 5th street in Lafayette, I looked at a 1970 aerial map to try to determine its old route. The resolution was not good enough. But you can see the old Wabash alignment through town. The new alignments along the river route the tracks under the Wabash River road bridges. Thus several grade crossings, as well as street running, is eliminated.
Before I found reference material that indicated the Monon used 5th street in Lafayette, I looked at a 1970 aerial map to try to determine its old route. The resolution was not good enough. But you can see the old Wabash alignment through town. The new alignments along the river route the tracks under the Wabash River road bridges. Thus several grade crossings, as well as street running, is eliminated.
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| 1970 Aerial Map |
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| Photo by Doug Weitzman L&N/Monon used to run in a street in Lafayette, IN, and the Amtrak "station" was a hotel. Here we see Amtrak 218 pulling #317, The Hoosier State, into town. These tracks have since been relocated along the Wabash River. |
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Steven J. Brown photo
Amtrak Hoosier State runs down the street in Lafayette, Indiana - June 23, 1992.
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| Richard Blunt posted The former Monon station in Lafayette Indiana. They left a section of track in the street in front of it to remember the street running days through town. |
This looks like the building on the right in Steven's photo. I wonder what the time frame was of using this building vs. the hotel in Doug's photo. Richard indicates the building is not used as a performing arts center.
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John Sickel III posted
The last Monon (ALCO C420/ no502 up front) "Football Special" loads up on 5th street in Lafayette Indiana, prior to heading south to Bloomington Indiana for the IU/Purdue Game. 1968. Courtesy of Monon Railroad.
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| Steven J. Brown posted Amtrak Hoosier State #317 is making a station stop in the street at Lafayette, Indiana - June 23, 1992. F40PHR 264 was built in 1977, became Canadian American 459 to SLRG 459. Mark Egebrecht: July 22, 1994 was the final day. |
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| Jim Sinclair shared I think the group will enjoy seeing this classic scene from Lafayette! Harold Pierce's posting CIRCA 1957 .. NOTICE 5TH STREET CONEY ISLAND ON LEFT .. |
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| Jeffrey Bossaer commented on Jim's share I think this is the Monon Railroad in Lafayette. Michael Perigo shared a Ray Gray post Kelly Harris posted |
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| Jeffrey Bossaer commented on Jim's share Another Monon Railroad picture in Lafayette |
Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society posted 27 photos with the comment:
Edit: added dates and photographers in captions and two more pictures for your viewing pleasure! 👀Lafayette History Drop! 🚂We have some great pictures of Monon’s Lafayette Depot, this week’s Monon Monday. There’s a wonderful map of Lafayette too.The passenger depot sits at the southwest corner of 5th and North Streets, with the Monon running down 5th Street.Hope you enjoy the map and pictures 📸 There’s always more in the archives! 😊
Mark Niceley: Does the Lahr Hotel still stand. I know for many years, it was the defacto Lafayette train station for the Floridian in Amtrak days.
David LaGuire: Mark Niceley yes, still there today.
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| 1 We aren’t sure of the date of this Lafayette map but believe it is 1932. |
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| 2 Ca. 1970, Dick Fontaine photographer |
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| 3 1974, C.D. Camp photographer |
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| 4 Date & Photographer, Unknown |
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| 5 Postcard of Monon’s passenger depot in Lafayette |
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| 6 Date & Photographer, Unknown |
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| 7 Date & Photographer, Unknown |
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| 8 1915, photographer unknown |
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| 9 1947, M.D. McCarter photographer Paul Robinson: I lived in that Spanish style, 3 story apartment building across from the Monon station from 1992 to 1995. My wife managed the apartments for Don Stein, who owned the property. It was his premium rental property at that time. We were told the apartment house once served as a brothel. Lovely ladies hung off these balconies, enticing men getting off the trains at the station. Makes a great story, but do not know if it was true. |
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| Bob Yong commented on Photo 9 Made it a color photo |
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| 10 Monon Railroad Dispatcher’s Office, June 15, 1949- photographer unknown [Some comments talk about the photos on the wall.] |
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| 11 1937, Charles Medin photographer |
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| 12 Date unknown, Bob Frederick photographer Michael J. Switzer Sr: 5th & Romig, looking North??? [Probably according to the topo map below.] |
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| 13 6th and Salem Streets, Lafayette, IN. 1965, Charles Huffer photographer Michael J. Switzer Sr: 5th & Salem... |
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| 14 Downtown Lafayette, Indiana, 1907. Photographer unknown. |
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| 15 Lafayette’s Monon passenger depot, date and photographer unknown. |
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| 16 Lafayette, Indiana, Date & Photographer unknown. |
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| 17 Lafayette, Indiana, date & photographer unknown |
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| 18 Lafayette, Indiana, 1967, Dave Ritenour photographer |
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| 19 Lafayette, Indiana, 1967, Dave Ritenour Photographer |
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| 20 Lafayette, Indiana, 1956, Bob Wheeler Photographer |
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| 22 Lafayette, Indiana, Date, photographer unknown |
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| 23 Lafayette, Indiana, Date, photographer unknown Michael Scrogham: newest car i see in this pic is a 1957 fairlane,i once had one so i recognize the year. so,,i would think about 1958,or 1959,because the 1957 models came out in the fall of 1957,like they always do. |
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| 24 Lafayette, Indiana, 1940, photographer unknown |
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| 25 Lafayette, Indiana, Date & Photographer unknown. |
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| 26 Monon’s Lafayette Softball Team |
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| 27 The Monon’s New Freight Depot at Salem Street. |
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| Robert Gibson Jr. commented on the above post My photo of Amtrak passing the station on May 9, 1987. |
The dashes in 5th Street indicates street running.
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| 1941/41 Lafayette West Quad @ 24,000 |
YouTube of the last train in downtown (I didn't watch.)
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