Kokomo, IN: NKP (LE&W) vs. Pennsy (Panhandle) and Pennsy Depot

(Satellite)

Ray Peacock posted

From a recent show of John Dziobko Jr.’s here is a view for the modelers and fans of “the way it used to be.”

We are looking out the rear window of a N&W coach, tacked onto the end of a regular northbound PRR train at Cincinnati that departed in the morning and traveled via Richmond, Anderson, Kokomo, & Logansport, to Chicago, arriving afternoon.

We see the distant PRR Kokomo depot, which the train just highballed, and the LE&W crossing. Much to see here, the date was 9/3/57 view looks south. Jed Clampett was in town, look at that old truck in the distant.

Later John would board the Portland Rose at Chicago for the second leg of a USA circle rail route encompassing 8,000 rail miles for $188! Copyright John Dziobko Jr. Godfatherrails.com

Bill Edrington: If memory serves, the PRR depot in Kokomo was north of the Clover Leaf crossing. Could this actually be the LE&W crossing (also part of the NKP)? [This explains why a LE&W junction appeared in a Cloverleaf Facebook Group. Ray has corrected this comment. So the Pennsy depot was on the west side of the tracks between the upper corner and the lower-right corners of the triangle in the following map excerpt.]

This junction is the upper corner of the triangle of tracks in the middle of this map. See Water Tower for details concerning the map.

INDOT 2005, zoomed

A topo map pinpoints the location of the Pennsy depot.

1960 Kokomo West Quad @ 1:24,000

Digitally Zoomed
Dennis DeBruler commented on Ray's post
When I zoomed in on the depot, I noticed that the Pennsy Positional Signal was using three amber lights to indicate Stop rather than two red lights. Was 1957 before Pennsy converted to the Red Eye or is this a permissive signal?