K&IT Roundhouse

[George Lortz]

Photo of the K&IT roundhouse that appeared on eBay recently.

Did the Monon have its own freight yard in the Louisville area or did it use the K&IT yards or some other yard?

George L.

[Ron Marquardt]

George, the Monon was 1/3 owner of the K&IT yards, and used it for their freight trains.  The other 2/3 was owned by the B&O and Southern.  The passenger trains, of course, ran through the K&IT yards down to 10th. and Broadway in downtown Louisville.  / Ron

[George Lortz]

Ron,

Thanks for your reply.  Did the Monon have locomotives permanently assigned to the K&IT yards or did they depend on K&IT locomotives to do the switching.  I know that the K&IT had at least a dozen locomotives in service.  I suspect it's possible that the Monon had one or more SW1s or NW2s available for this assignment.  Over the years I haven't seen many photos of Monon switchers operating at the Youngtown yards.  One photo I have seen is one of the Monon's FM units at the site.

George L.

[Ron Marquardt]

The Monon didn't have any locomotives there assigned to work the K&IT yards.  They did have the New Albany yard engine based there.  During my years it was an SW1.  When it was down, they would use a K&IT yard engine to replace it.  I think in later years they leased a K&IT engine full time for the New Albany job so they wouldn't have to maintain an engine down there.  / Ron

[David Longest]

You may find the attached images of K&IT diesels of interest.  I have more but got to head for the NQC in a few minutes.  Bill Gaither and many, many other talents are on the program.

David