Hobart, IN: Pennsy Depot, (HO) and Bart Towers, and Brick Making

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Depot

Street View

Ken Durkel posted
CF&E FWCH passing the historic 110 year old Pennsy Depot in Hobart, Indiana. Now used by Hobart Chamber of Commerce, the building was deeded to Hobart by Conrail in the 1980s and restored inside and out. The depot is on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. Picture taken April 05, 2021.
Mike Stockdale: Those tracks were pulled up at one time . I think around 1997?
Mark Egebrecht: Mike Stockdale The track was out of service from 1991 to 1994, when NS reactivated it up the depot. The rest to Tolleston was reactivated in 1999.

HO Tower

This looks like the Bart tower, but it does have an HO sign on it.

NorthAmericanInterlockings

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Bart Tower

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Towers

This is one of those topics that the more I researched it, the more I got confused. It started with trying to determine the location of this tower.

Paul Jansson posted
On 12/20/1991 the much anticipated run of the newly restored ATSF 3751 is seen passing Hobart Tower.

Dennis DeBruler: In which town? It doesn't look like either Bart nor HO in Hobart, IN. Assuming Hobart, IN, is it westbound on the EJ&E and  crossing the Pennsy? [That would mean it was the Bart Tower.]

The 2005 SPV Map indicates Bart is where the Pennsy crossed the EJ&E, and HO is where the Nickel Plate crossed the EJ&E. And the Bart track diagram is consistent with EJ&E crossing Pennsy. But the above NorthAmericanInterlocking photos don't match Paul's photo.

1953/53 Gary and Portage Quads @ 24,000

Digitally Zoomed

This ariel photo shows that both towers where in the northwest quadrant with Bart paralleling Pennsy and HO paralleling EJ&E.

Dec 1, 1951 @ 28,400; AR1PK0000010011

The EJ&E and abandoned; the NKP is now NS; and the Pennsy is now Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad.

Bricks

Ken Durkel posted two photos with the comment: "A before and after along today's CF&E ex PRR Ft. Wayne Line in Hobart, Indiana. 1st picture shows the brickyards that lined both sides of the PRR mains, probably taken around 100 years ago. 2nd photo taken August 18, 2021 at the same spot. The last of the brickyards in Hobart closed in 1966."

Thomas Boswell: That's why they are the "Hobart Brickies".

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Ken's post

These topos confirms that the lake north of the Pennsy was the clay pit.

1959 Gary and 1960 Portage Quadrangles @ 1:24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on Ken's post
Are you looking West from a location that is west of the bridge? This view is looking West from Front St.