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A CSX freight train with run-through BNSF power waits for yard clearance in Monon, Indiana. The railroad got the name Monon from the convergence of its main routes in Monon, Indiana. From Monon, the mainlines reached out to Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Michigan City, Indiana. [1] In Chicago the Monon's passenger trains served Dearborn ...
Following World War II new Monon president John W. Barriger III embarked on a program to renew the Monon's passenger service, long neglected. The centerpiece of this program was a group of 28 surplus hospital cars originally built by the American Car and Foundry Company (ACF) in 1944–1945 for the U.S. Army.
The Fair Train was the museum's biggest yearly event with ITM passenger trains transporting as many as 16,000 people to the Indiana State Fair daily, with ten daily round trips each day of the fair during August. [45] The Polar Bear Express was held in the months of November and December. It included a train ride and a visit from Santa Claus. [46]
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The train was inaugurated in 1911 as the Hoosier Limited and was intended as the premier service of the Monon Railroad. New Barney and Smith cars were acquired for the service. In April 1914 the trains name was shortened to simply the Hoosier. The train's consist featured an elaborate dining car and observation car. [1]
In its heyday, the Monon Railroad had two train yards in Monon. The main yard was 11 tracks wide with a capacity for 270 cars. The South Yard was narrower, 5 tracks wide, but longer and had a 278-car capacity. There are no longer passenger train services, as has the line to Indianapolis and most of the line to Michigan City was closed.
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Monon Railroad: MON MON 1956 1971 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Morris Terminal Railway: RI: 1905 1948 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad: Mound City Railroad: IC: 1855 1885 Mound City Railway: Mound City Railway: IC: 1882 1902 Illinois Central Railroad: Mounds and Olive Branch Railroad: IC ...
A Pullman-built troop sleeper at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum.. In United States railroad terminology, a troop sleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks (essentially, a sleeping car) for transporting troops over distances sufficient to require overnight accommodations.