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MONON Trains => Steam Locomotives => Topic started by: Tom Kepshire on October 29, 2014, 02:03:45 pm
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Received this photo recently and felt compelled to share it. Chicago and Wabash Valley Steam Locomotive #4 taking on water from an artesian well near the locomotive facility at Kersey, Indiana. The photo was sent to me by Mary Yeoman Sholey, who still lives in Kersey.
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And while I am sharing, how about C&WV Steam locomotive #3 and the engine house at Kersey.
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Mary's Grandfather Lawrence Vernon (Vern) Stroup, at the controls of Steam Locomotive #76.
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Tom,
Looks like he's actually in the cab of #76 according to the steam dome.
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You're right Eric. That is 76, but it was on the old CWV at Kersey.
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Thanks Tom, for posting these. Not too awful many public photos available of the C&WV out there.
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These photos kind of fell into my lap. I hope she locates additional photos of the C&WV. There is a better than average chance there are more coming.
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Group,
I found these images on the Monon Bygone webpage about a year ago and was excited to finally see a good number of quality images of the C&WV show up. My family has some of the former ROW just a mile south east of Kersey. I hunted squirrels with my dad often in the woods the track ran through. It was a very distinguishable cut through the woods and was quite elevated further south. My father rode his trail bike up and down it when he was younger which actually helped pull many cinders up through the weeds that are still visible today because others also ride out there recently. I have a collection of spikes, Nuts and Bolts found on the ROW when I was a kid. I actually kept a wooden crostie with a small spike in it that was still laying out there. I dated a girl whose grandparents owned the farm that artesian well was located at in Kersey which was still there to some extent. That same well ran to my granparents farm and ran a small stream constantly at a stand pipe all year long. A great teacher and shop teacher of mine in high school lives in Supervisor Lewis's home in Kersey and mentioned part of one of the barns there was part of an old reefer or box car from that era. Let's hope more of these photos show up. They are some of the closest things to time travel we will know!
Andy Hershman