The street in the foreground is Main Street.
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| Roland Boles posted |
It is obvious that the depot was in the northwest quadrant of Main Street and the tracks.
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| May 3, 1962 @ 24,000; AR1VAJP00030073 |
The signal box behind the CSX truck is where the depot used to be.
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| Street View, Aug 2023 |
The brick building would house the microwave communications equipment. the tower still has three microwave dishes. It looks like they added to the top of the original tower to add the cell phone antennas. That addition is a testament to how things were over engineered in the 20th Century before computer aided design became available.
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Nice research! I remember the depot from many years ago, but I don't recall when it was torn down. Notice how the station platform goes right up to the edge of the tracks so that was easy to access the train cars.
ReplyDeleteI don't see a date for the depot photo, but it looks very old.
From 1908 until the 1940s there was a separate set of tracks that ran on the west (left) side of the depot for the THI&E Interurban Railroad line that ran between Terre Haute and Sullivan. The electric interurban used a catenary cable suspended above the track for power. Since there is no evidence of a catenary cable, I'm thinking that this photo must be from before 1908.