Evansville, IN: Union Station/L&N Depot and L&N Freight House

(Satellite, the depot was along Fulton Avenue between 7th Avenue and Ohio Street. Back then Ohio Street was just a stub west of Fulton and was used as a parking lot. There was a freight house along the river, and most of the rest of the land west of Fulton was full of track including the stations platforms across the top and team tracks between Ohio Street and the freight house tracks to the south.)

L&N forced C&EI to move from their 1907 station to this station in July 1935, so C&EI refers to this depot as Union Station.

Photo via info via map and photo gallery, Source: Facebook - Evansville IN Pictures group (Tim Dill)
Old L & N Depot in 1981
At the corner of Ohio and Fulton

C&EIRHS posted
The L&N-C&EI Union Station in Evansville. The L&N trains came in on this side of the station from the south and handed off trains to the C&EI on the two tracks on the left side of the photo.

 

Daniel Bennet posted
Evansville Indiana
Michael Maitland: Looks like a fire in the boxcar.

Robert Gibson Jr. commented on Daniel's post
This was the rear of the L&N-C&EI Union Station at Evansville, Indiana. Bob McCord photo John Fuller collection.

Photo via info via photo gallery, Source: Willard Library - Misc 593
L & N Railroad Depot and vicinity 1930s 
View of L&N and other buildings on Fulton Ave, looking northwest
[Because of the rows of boxcars, it is obvious that the building along the left side of the photo was L&N's freight house. Because of the spacing between the tracks, it is obvious that the tracks to the right of the freight house were the L&N team tracks. The photo gallery also includes Sanborn Maps for 1910 and 1962.]

 

Roger Waibel posted
C&EI and L&N Locomotives
Evansville L&N Depot.`

A photo in Aerial Views of the 1937 Flood
The L & N depot and freight station (long building) on Fulton Ave. near Riverside Dr. is in the lower left; the solitary building sitting on a snow-covered lot, just above the center, is Willard Library. Dated January 26, 1937 (Miscellaneous 842)

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society posted
We're at Evansville's Union Station in this photo from the C&EI Historical Society archive. A pair of L&N FP7's have arrived with a northbound passenger train. In the background C&EI E9A No. 1002 is waiting to pull the train north. The date and photographer are unknown, but probably the early 1960's.

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society posted
Bob McCord took this photo at Evansville Union Station. The train is probably #92 waiting to depart for Chicago in 1965. #92 was discontinued in January, 1966.
Connor Hochleutner What a sad little train. One boxcar, a chair coach and a baggage mail car.

C&EI Historical Society posted
Looking south on Evansville's Fulton Avenue in 1964. Union Station is on the right and the L&N-NYC freight depot is beyond on the right. The Ohio River is on the other side of the gravel piles at the end of the street. C&EI closed it's downtown Eighth Street station in July, 1935. By then most passenger trains were handed off to the L&N at Union Station after traveling down the middle of Division St. between Garvin St. and First Avenue.

C&EI Historical Society posted
A few minutes after leaving Evansville's Union Station this northbound C&EI passenger train is lumbering down the middle of Division Street on its way to Chicago. Ray Curl collection in the C&EI Historical Society archives.
Raymond Barr Division Street was the main East - West throughofare for Evansville. This dance between trains and cars went on into the early seventies.
Joseph Kuczynski Guessing 1949 or 1950. Don't know when C&EI dieselized.
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society May 9, 1950 dropped fire on last steam engine.

Rails Around Indiana posted on Nov 2, 2021
 A cold morning in November 1967 finds a southbound C&EI/L&N trailer train stopped at Fulton Ave near Evansville Union Station for a crew change. This is where the C&EI officially interchanged passenger trains and run-through freight trains to the L&N. The train is bound for Atlanta. (Robert Stevens, photo; Chad Jenkins collection)

CEIRHS shared
The back of the L&N-C&EI Union Station in Evansville shortly before it was torn down in February, 1985.

CERHIS commented on their share
Evansville's C&EI-L&N Union Station in better times. Bob McCord photo from John Fuller collection.