Semaphores in Orleans, IN

Ben thanks for sharing the picture with us.

Thanks! Great shot of the semaphores and the winter scene - evokes a pleasant nostalgia.

Ray

A timeless image of an era long gone.  It's nice to see those still standing.

I visited Orleans when just out of school years ago...I remember it as having

a school bus plant, as did Richmond, Ind. on I-70.  Both plants  I think are gone as is one in the south that produced a 1/43rd model of their first model, on Ford A chassis.

Wonder where they make schoolbuses these days?

Mitchell, In.  is the home of the Carpenter school bus factory.   Still in production as far as I know.   Mitchell is famous as the home of Gus Grissom.   It is 50 miles or so north of Orleans.  That's a guess on my part.   Both towns are in southern, In., not to far from me.

Being we all like "old" stuff on this forum, I got a great job at Mitchell a few years ago.   An older guy, 90's that lived there had collected/hoarded old cars all his life.  When he died, his son just wanted everything gone.   A friend of my was related and was the auctioneer.  I got the job of listing and cataloging everything there.   There were over 150 old cars from the 30's.   Most had been outside all those years, but even rusted pretty bad it was great fun poking around there for a week.