State Line City, IN: Former Wabash Depot and Current Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

Jeffrey Bossaer posted seven photos with the comment: "Wabash Railroad at State Line City, Indiana."

Robert McNeill: A location Lincoln stopped & addressed the populace at enroute to assume the Presidency. The WRHS has a nice article in a back issue of the Banner on this locale.

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Former Wabash Railroad depot at State Line City, Indiana.
[This depot is so small it barely had room for the bay window for the agent's desk.]

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Wabash Railroad at State Line City, Indiana.

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Wabash Railroad at State Line City, Indiana.
[Note the grain elevator peaking out around the signal mast.]

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President elect Lincoln stops in State Line City, Indiana.

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[The bins in the left-background past the long building are for the Wright Farms.]

I could not find a filling station nor a downtown in this town. But it does have a rail-served ADM grain elevator.

Like the ADM elevator south of Attica, IN, this one uses a yard rather than a loop track to hold a train. The satellite image on Google Maps is old. They had built a ground storage pile across the road by Oct 2018. Note that they also have a rectangular ground pile on the north side of the elevator. I counted the hoppers in the yard. There are only 50 of them. I counted the cars in a Sep 2017 image of Attica's ADM grain elevator, and it also had only 50 cars. Is NS willing to split a unit train between the two towns? ADM would be a big shipper. I've noticed before that a Class I railroad was willing to do switching maneuvers for a big shipper (CGB in Olney, IL, served by CSX) that they would not dream of doing for a locally owned grain elevator.

Google Earth, Oct 2018