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Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, Gibson Roundhouse, Hammond, Indiana Southern Railway (U.S.) roundhouse, Princeton, Indiana down to a 1/4 when abandoned in 1958, mostly rotted away by 2/18 roundhouse, Evansville, IN
According to Richard Simmons and Francis Haywood Parker, authors of Railroads of Indiana, it is "easily the state's most spectacular railroad bridge". [2] The bridge was built in 1905 and 1906 by the Indianapolis Southern Railway and successor Indianapolis Southern Railroad, which became part of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1911.
The railroad's largest yard is Blue Island located in Riverdale, Illinois. [2] The Gibson Yard, located in Hammond, Indiana, is arguably the largest automobile traffic switching operation in the United States. Other yards include Burnham, Calumet City, Alsip, Argo, LaGrange, Rose, Norpaul, Whiting, Michigan Avenue, and Lakefront.
Northern Indiana Railroad: NYC: 1837 1855 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad: Ohio Railway: NKP: 1879 1880 New York, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: NKP: 1880 1880 New York, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio and Indiana Railroad: PRR: 1851 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
The Indianapolis Traction Terminal was a major interurban train station in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the largest interurban station in the world and at its peak handled 500 trains per day and seven million passengers per year. [3] The station opened in 1904 and remained in use until 1941, when interurban operation ended.
World 1,374,001 426,313 31.03% 107.95 372.12 4,814 2006 [14] Notes Countries without active network. Former operators. Countries with defunct rail networks [88 ...
The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport with one locomotive and three passenger cars. The museum relocated to Greensburg and then in 1978 to French Lick after the Southern Railway deeded a total of sixteen miles of right of way stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the ...
The Fulton County Railroad (reporting mark FC) is a privately held short-line railroad that runs from Rochester to Argos, Indiana, where it connects with the Norfolk Southern Railway. It is a switching railroad that originally provided service to only one customer, Wilson Fertilizer and Grain in Rochester, and operates approximately 13 miles of ...