Steubenville, IN: Depot and Tower for Wabash and NYC

(Satellite, the tower is gone and the depot has been moved)

John Storer posted
Larry Jack: Depot building is on south side of pleasant lake. [I spent some time looking for it on a satellite image, but I could not find it.]
Craig Jon Berndt: The depot is in very poor condition. Five years ago the owner tried to find someone to relocate and preserve it, but there were no takers. Twenty+ years ago I stopped to photograph it and the owner, now deceased, told me that he and his brother-in-law moved it there from Steubenville on two wagons. He asked if I wanted the depot sign, and of course I did. We looked for it in the garage and it wasn't there. We finally found it, in pieces. Grandkids had cut it up for a skateboard ramp.

Terry Wisel Heintz updated
Michelle Smith Sheffield: The depot is at my cousin’s farm. He would love to find a new home for it!
Tom Cochran: Michelle Smith Sheffield he needs to talk to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society.
Eric Davis: Where was this located?

Dennis DeBruler responded to Eric's question
I dropped a pin on the crossing we see in the left side of the photo.

https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2...

That was a simple junction, I see only a couple of signaling pipelines leaving the tower.

It appears the buildings were on the south side of the track. The NYC was the north/south route and the Wabash ran east/west.

1942 Ashley Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

When I saw the spur going south from the Wabash on the east side of the NYC, I checked out the satellite image. I wonder what was mined because the lake has grown since 1942. Were they digging marl for cement like they did at the end of a Wabash spur in Stroh?

Satellite

Originally, the NYC route was the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw and then the Lake Shore & Southern Michigan and then it was absorbed by NYC.

Terry Wisel Heintz posted
Steubenville Indiana.
Tim Shanahan shared

The resolution of a 1958 aerial photo is poor, but it appears the buildings are north of the Wabash tracks. So this train is southbound.

A different exposure of this photo.

Bill Molony posted
Steubenville, Indiana was where the New York Central Railroad's branch between Jackson, Michigan and Fort Wayne, Indiana crossed the Wabash Railroad's main line between Chicago and Detroit.
Back in the 1920's the NYC had two steam passenger locals and a motor car run each way daily that stopped here.
The Wabash had one daytime and one night express each way between Chicago and Detroit each way daily that were not scheduled to stop here.

Terry Wisel Heintz posted
Steubenville.

Dennis DeBruler: Where the Wabash crossed the NYC.