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Title: Unidentified Crossing
Post by: Mike Aufderheide on October 18, 2015, 10:53:36 am

All,

The attached photo was posted on the PRR Lines West group and is listed as a crossing with the Monon.  It is in a group of photos of a Logansport to Lebanon local.  Is this photo of Frankfort?

Regards,

Mike Aufderheide

Title: Re: Unidentified Crossing
Post by: Robert Wheeler on October 19, 2015, 04:50:53 pm

I do not have a PRR Timetable to check/verify the PRR Milepost 115.32.

Monon Timetable #8 (Effective October 25, 1956) and others in the same time period show:
      The Following crossings are protected by semaphore target and gates:

Monon.............Monon
Frankfort .........Penna.
Midland............C. M. St. P. & P.

Elsewhere with the various descriptions of individual crossings it has:

  "At Frankfort --- Penna. Crossing: Gate open and signal diagonal, crossing clear for Monon."

The signal and gate in the picture appear to be set against the Monon. The  gate is almost hidden in the roof line of the building across the tracks.

Title: Re: Unidentified Crossing
Post by: Tim T Swan on October 20, 2015, 01:21:15 am

I think it IS Frankfort, Mike.  Check out the attached blow-up from a 1956 Monon track diagram.  The trackage in the photo seems to match.   /Tim.