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Title: Location ID please
Post by: Joe Land on May 31, 2012, 03:54:03 pm

Do you know this location? Slide in Lloyd Kimble collection with no information noted.

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: Jim Davis on May 31, 2012, 06:26:34 pm

Joe, it looks alot like Greencastle to me.

JD

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: Steve Dolzall on May 31, 2012, 06:38:51 pm

The location is Bedford, Indiana. The photo is looking east down the MLW. line toward Seymour. The MILW freight house is to the right. The track leading to the MILW Bedford yard curves off to the left.

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: Tom Kepshire on May 31, 2012, 07:20:55 pm

It looks like Bedford to me also. The Milwaukee Road .

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: Gene Remaly on May 31, 2012, 08:26:03 pm

notice the high switch stand----not MONON JD   

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: David Longest on May 31, 2012, 09:58:35 pm

I think Tom is right; milwaukee RD in Bedford.

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: Tom Kepshire on June 01, 2012, 09:44:05 am

I wonder if the boxcars in the picture are filled with Miller Beer?

Title: Re: Location ID please
Post by: Tim T Swan on June 01, 2012, 10:52:42 am

Absolutely Bedford.  Almost MONON though.  A block behind the photographer's back was the MONON diamond where MILW's CTHSE line crossed the MONON mainline just north of the stone depot.  MILW's stone depot was immediately to his right rear.  The depot in the distance of Joe's photo is MILW's freighthouse, still standing the last time I was there.  Attached is a 2006 photo of it.  The wye to the left (north) led to MILW's yard and engine facilities and also to their Bedford Belt line up to the Oolitic quarries.