Towns and Nature: Huntington, IN: Erie Shops and Depot

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Huntington, IN: Erie Shops and Depot

(Satellite, Yeoman Park and the building to the south and northeast were part of the yard complex)

Because of the tree lines north and south of the town and the angle of the Broil King Gas Barbecue Grills, it is easy to see where the Erie used to go through town.

Elaine Luck posted
Huntington Indiana, Erie Shops

Indiana Railroad & Trolley History posted
A photo showing Erie train #6, led by a PA unit, passing 'WR' Tower in Huntington, IN, in SEP59. The locomotive number board seems to end in 2. With the round window at the unit rear and the grabirons bordering the front door, this would be PA1 #852, as PA2 #862 lacked these features.
[I need to research the north/south railroad that the Erie would be crossing.]

In Sept 2020, I got hit with a Double Doomsday. Both Facebook and Google changed their software. I said "changed" instead of "updated" because the new software is not better. In fact, Google's Blogger software is far worse except for a search function that works. Specifically, it has three bugs concerning photos and their captions. So I'm no longer copying photos and interesting comments from Facebook. I'm just saving the link. I hope you can see posts in Private Groups.

One of fourteen photos concerning the depot shared by Tim Shanahan

Michael Dye posted

Built by the Chicago & Atlantic/Chicago & Erie in the 1890s, as the road was built across Indiana, to give the Erie Railroad access to Chicago, Huntington Yard was a flat switching yard. As it was originally built, it was the main yard for the C&E, and had maintenance facilities for the road’s steam locomotives, freight & passenger cars.

Built, just to the NW of the C&E station/offices (which stood at the SE corner of Huntington’s Bryant & Market Streets), and to the W of the crossing of the Erie’s (New York to Chicago) & Wabash’s (Detroit - St Louis) mainlines, Huntington Yard remained active from the 1890s to 1979, serving the Chicago & Erie, the Erie RR, the Erie Lackawanna, the Erie Western, and finally, the Chicago & Indiana (Which shut down on Dec 31, 1979.

The yard was torn out by LB Foster, in 1983, and other than one span of the Little Wabash bridge, and two rails crossing Market Street, no trace of the yard remains.