Sloan, IN: NX Tower: Aban/CR/NYC/CIS+Milw vs Aban/IC/Rantoul

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CIS = Chicago, Indiana & Southern

I could find no traces of the IC Branch of Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Railroad (HR&E) on the satellite image. The treeline is wider between Sloan and IN-28 because there used to be a siding here. According to the comments, Norfolk Southern now owns this route and stopped the scrapping in 1999 that had started in Danville.

Doug Nipper posted four photos with the comment:

Speaking of the former Chicago, Indiana and Southern "Egyptian Line" in Indiana and Illinois, here are three shots from the collection of the Rossville Depot Railroad Museum that show NX Tower, which was at one time where the IC's Rantoul, IL to West Lebanon, IN branch crossed. In the PC and Conrail years, there was still a passing siding here known as Sloan. Also, a map of the CI&S before it became a part of the NYC. Jim Sinclair provided that scan to me.

Phil Boldman I got a Sloan story for you. My dad was in water service. He took care of the pump and water tower at Sloan. He knew the tower operator good so when dad needed overtime or needed to get away from mom he would contact the operator and he would go take the fuse out of the electric pump and report the pumpnot working. Dad would drive to Sloan and put the fuse back in. 4 hours overtime and 4 hours away from mom.

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Jeffrey Bossaer posted two photos with the comment:

Sloan (NX) railroad water tank and tower in Warren County, Indiana, posted recently by Terri Strickland on the You Know You're From Warren County Indiana Facebook page. Can someone tell us more about the railroad that operated here?

Michael Dye Sloan is an extinct town. In 1903, the NYC ran a line through Sloan, which survived until the 1990s when Conrail abandoned the line and it was pulled up. While nothing remains at the site of Sloan, portions of the line remain. Operated by the Bee Line (Subsidiary of the KB&S), the track runs North from Stewart (4 miles to the North) and joins the KB&S near Ambia, IN.
Mike Sypult Pretty sure this is where the Illinois Central Rantoul District crossed the NYC. LeRoy, Illinois to West Lebannon, IN. Originally narrow gauge, controlled by Wabash for a time, then to IC. Line abandonments on the east end began in the 1930s - the entire line (most of it, anyways) abandoned by 1980.
Art Wallis I think you’ll find that very few people ever lived in Sloan. In fact, it may not have even existed prior to the CI&S (NYC) building through in 1905-06.

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[Note the use of the standpipe even though there was plenty of room to build the tower trackside.]