Just looking on my RR Map...wow if you lived here back in the day and loved trains...this would definitely be a depressing situation in this town.
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Pennsy, New York Central Erie and C&O junction - there's a good RR museum there keeping the town's railroad heritage alive:
During my visit there, my son and I were riding behind 765 when it derailed; my brother was running the diesel that towed us back to the museum after the train was uncoupled from the derailement. C&O pulled up its Cincinnati - Chicago Indiana mainline, leaving behind a short segment of track between North Judson and Malden, the Pennsy and NYC lines were killed off, and a short segment of former Erie track is in place.
The Pennsy line ran north to Chicago and south through Logansport to Indianapolis and on to Cincinnati. Logansport had Pennsy lines radiating in all directions and was a beehive of activity - Conrail clipped almost all lines in the area, leaving Norfolk Southern (former Norfolk and Western, originally Wabash), TP&W, and short segments of the Pennsy. Sad that these small Indiana towns (and so many others) lost their service and the railroads only live through photographs and memories...
Good friend of mine was raised in North Judson and whose father was a section foreman for the Erie. He talks about his Dad their, all the time, and indicates that this is where his love for RR's was started. I've never been there but I understand that much of the old trackage has been torn up. The Erie was very proud of their track and maintenance procedures. Great old Days!
Paul Fischer
North Judson has changed SO MUCH, it's hard to really get a handle on what it all looked like in it's prime.
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