Deer Creek Trestle

[George Lortz]

An early photo of the Deer Creek Trestle near Delphi taken in the 1880s.

http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/V0002&CISOPTR=1866&CISOBOX=1&REC=13

George L.

[Tim T Swan]

Stunning find, George.  Thanks for sharing!

Looks like an excursion over the new bridge.  If this is narrow gauge, and I think it is (judging by the relative size of the guy standing on the tender), it's the only photo I've seen of the Air Line when it was still a 3 footer.   /Tim.

[Gene Remaly]

This is a good one for "The Shadow Detectives"

My guess is that the train is Northbound with logs for the lime kilns located near the stone quarry.

there were several lime kilns that burned all available logs in the area. The area 3-4 miles South of Delphi was heavy forest. Harley siding was built to handle log cars. There is only about 80 acres of woods left today.


state road 39 goes through the middle of it.
My theory is that there was no passing siding in Delphi, so the engine is shoving two log cars North to Delphi.

[Victor Sauerheber]

Great picture .Thanks for Sharing Vic

[Pete Pedigo]

It has been pointed out many times that this photo is not at Deer Creek.  It is the Paoli trestle.  This resurfaces every year or two.  I don't have time right now to substantiate this, but surely somebody else remembers this discussion and comparison to the Paoli trestle.

[Tom Kepshire]

I do recall that conversation a while back. There were a couple photos that we believed were miss marked. I do believe this one was one of them. The other was a photo of a trestle identified as the Monon Railroad Bridge at Dunn's Resort. The Monon did not cross the Kankakee at Dunns Resort. That was the Chicago Attica and Southern. Some thought the picture was the original trestle at Riverside, but no consensus was ever reached.

[Victor Sauerheber]

I can see that one that has seen the Paoli Trestle from the end could mistake this one as somewhere else. It doesn't show the curvature that is very obvious in an end view of the Paoli Trestle. i know we have seen an end shot on here before. Do you have that Tom ?

[Jim Wolfe]

We have discussed this before and researched the photo. It fits too much like Paoli. We don't beleive the High Bridge ever had a curviture. The photos on Tom's site pretty much sum it all up.

http://www.monon.monon.org/bygone/paolilick.html