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

MP Rail Photography posted

NS 8040 leads 121 westbound on the Layfayette District.  Seen here passing the State Line Elevator Company in State Line City, Indiana. 

September 1, 2024

State Line City, Indiana

Power:

NS 8040 - ES40DC