Markle, Indiana Grain Elevator

While I am not familiar with the grain elevator in Markle In...this one is still alive and (NOT) kickin in Frankfort, In.  My neighbor may have more pixs if interested.

I want to know if the Markle one is still standing (I doubt it, the kit instructions say it was when the HO kit was offered...1971....there is contradictory info implying it was still standing when the later O scale kit was offered.)   I have a book on Indiana grain elevators that I can't find, that I have used to track down some ruined ones,  but I do not remember the Markle mill as being in there.  Too bad "Markle" did not ring a bell when I was in the area.  Don't want to make a goose chase looking for it.  I made a goose chase north of Terre Haute to try to find an unusual elevator that trucks drove a rickety circular ramp up to the top to dump grain into.  I would have like to find a photo and build a model of that.  It was gone and historical society in Terre Haute had no photo.

Not known for my patience, I made a trip to Markle, Ind., today, and to Huntington, Ind., where my grain elevator  kit was made back in the 1970's.    The wooden elevator at Markle is gone, replaced by modern metal bins, as are the tracks that ran from the junction at Decatur, Ind., to Huntington.  There is still an interesting elevator with odd angles and additions just east of there in Preble, Ind., that was served by that same road, now, no tracks, but it is still operating.   In Huntington a RR freight house is now serving as a pizza joint.  Decatur, Ind. has the Back 40 buffet restaurant with a caboose out front and a lot of railroad and other historical memorabilia in and around it (such as Burma Shave signs).  A little brick RR station is preserved in Decatur, but another on another line that I used to see there has disappeared.  Decatur has a number of antique shops down town, and Markle has a large antique mall, a maze like some of those on U.S. 30 west of York, that had some trains in it when I walked through.