Anderson
Angola
Ashley-Hudson
Barret
Big Rapids
Bourbon
Brazil
Brownstown
Cedar Lake
Crawfordsville
Danville
Elkhart
Evansville
Freemont
French Lick Springs
Ft Benjamin
Ft Wayne
Grabill
Greensburg
Griffith
Hammond
Harmony
Highlands
Indiana Harbor

Indianapolis
Union Station
Traction Terminal

Jeffersonville
La Fayette
La Porte
Madison
Martinsville
Michigan City
Monon
Muncie
Norman
North Judson
North Vernon
Peru
Richmond
Rome City
Scottsburg
Seymour
South Bend
Sparksville
Syracuse

Terre Haute
Big Four
Union Station
Haley Tower

Vallonia
Vincennes
Wabash
Warsaw
Washington
West Baden
Winchester
Winona Lake

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There are precious few good references for many of the railroad stations and depots that used to exist.

One of the better resources I have come across to this end is the plethora of old post cards still around depicting many of these structures, some better than others.

Most of the postcards were found on EBay unless noted, other pictures, mostly the more recent ones, come from Google and/or Bing images - credit given if the source is known.

Dates are in the picture name, x means the date is approximate.  If they were available, and interesting, I included the back side of the postcards.  1910a and 1910b would be the same card, both sides.

If the picture was really, really bad, some of them have been cleaned up and/or repaired when I had the energy.

If you have the time, other good sources for pictures are: Shorpy, Google, and Bing images, and the Library of Congress (you have to be very patient to find things here :-)

Since many of these stations are no longer around (railfans seem to prefer the term "extant", I'm not one of them! :-), this page is mostly for historical reference.

What's the difference between a station and a depot?  Most people will say "nuttin", it's a matter of preference, although many will use depot for older buildings.

If you have a picture you would like to contribute, please see the bottom of the page for how to find me, credit is always given to contributing photographers.

Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
http://northamericaninterlockings.com/index.html


Anderson





Angola

Same picture, one colored, one not...

 


Ashley - Hudson





Barret





Big Rapids - GR&I RR Depot

 


Bourbon





Brazil - TH&I "station"

 



Brownstown







Cedar Lake - Bartlett Station at Road #10





Crawfordsville



 



Danville

 



Elkhart

 

 





Evansville

 

 







Freemont





French Lick Springs





Ft Benjamin





Ft Wayne

 

 





Grabill



Grabill today... nice catch with the oncoming NS freight!  Screen captures from Google Maps street view.









Greenspring

 

 



Griffith

One postcard showing off the three depots in town at the time!

      Photo courtesy Denver Todd

GPS Coordinates: 41.520853, -87.427552
Address: 155 S. Broad St, 46319
Phone: 219-924-9701
www.griffithhistoricalsociety.org

The station is part of a larger museum dedicated to railroading in Griffith
For more info, click here







Hammond

 



Harmony





Highlands





Indiana Harbor



 



Indianapolis - Union Station

  



 

 

  





Indianapolis - Traction Terminal & Hotel

 

 





Jeffersonville


 



Lafayette

GPS Coordinates: 40.419494,-86.896113
Address: 200 N. 2nd St, 47901

Station in current use for Amtrak.
Station code: LAF.

History from http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/LAF The Romanesque style brick “Big Four” depot was built in 1902 by the Buckeye Chum Company for the Lake Erie & Western and Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the Big Four) Railroads.  This well-landscaped restored station sits opposite the bank of the Wabash River, directly beside a city park.  The brick and limestone building served as a train station until about 1970.  It was partially restored in 1979 and given to the city of Lafayette in 1983.

The Big Four depot was relocated to the site from an address three blocks away in 1994.  The 550-ton building was placed on 18 sets of wheeled dollies and rolled to the site over the better part of four days.  Renovation was completed in 1995 and the depot was rededicated as the centerpiece of the James F. Riehle Plaza.  The depot is open for plaza events and has meeting rooms for rent.  The interior has been modernized and utilizes two levels, with track access on the lower level and the plaza entrance on the upper level.

When Amtrak trains began using the facility on January 4, 1996, it was first time Amtrak passengers traveling to and from Lafayette had the benefit of a waiting room in an actual railroad station.  It was a major step toward completion of the Lafayette Railroad Relocation Project, a more than $170 million joint federal-state-local effort to end the practice of trains and motor vehicles sharing a 14-block stretch of Fifth Street in Lafayette.

Since the practice of "street-running" ended with the Amtrak train down Fifth Street on July 22, 1994, passengers used a temporary platform at Second and Alabama Streets. Previously, various Fifth Street storefronts were utilized.

Although the city of Lafayette first began discussing railroad relocation in 1926, the first federal funding for engineering of the relocation did not come until 1975. Environmental studies and hearings lasted until 1979 and federal officials approved the final design in 1981. Construction began in 1986, with phases completed in 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.

Amtrak passengers cross above the rail line on an elevated pedestrian bridge, which provides access to the Amtrak waiting shelter on the west side.  Other features of Riehle Plaza include a brick-paved gathering place and public open space, a fountain, landscaped green space and a textured concrete wall to provide visual and sound screening from the tracks.

The Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, also known as the Monon Railway, also served Lafayette, specifically Purdue University in West Lafayette. Founded in 1847 as the New Albany and Salem Railroad, the Monon (deriving from a Potawatomi Indian word for “swift running”) provided service from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River by 1853.  The route map formed a tilted “X” over Indiana, the main line taking freight and passengers from Chicago to Louisville, and another branch connecting Michigan City and Indianapolis.  A small spur also linked Orleans and French Lick.  Purdue University was situated in Lafayette in 1869 specifically because the city was lying on the Monon Line.  Monon discontinued passenger service in 1967, and became part of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1971.  CSX still operates most of the remaining Monon tracks.

The Lafayette station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Lafayette is served by two trains, which combine to offer daily service to Chicago and Indianapolis and provide service three-days-weekly between Indianapolis and New York City, via Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. This is one of two “Lafayettes” on the Amtrak map, with Lafayette, Louisiana, on the route of the Amtrak Sunset Limited.



  Photo courtesy Denver Todd

  photo by Bohao Zhao, found here









La Porte


 



Madison

GPS Coordinates: 38.735632,-85.38718 (the green arrow below is the location of the depot)

The railroad station houses a small museum which offers not only railroad related artifacts, but local history as well.
More info here: http://www.jchshc.org/

  Photo courtesy Denver Todd

 







Martinsville





Michigan City

 

 





Monon

 



Muncie

 



 

  Popular postcard, huh? :-)

  As Louie says in Hello Dolly: One More Time!



Muncie - Traction Station

 



Norman





North Judson

 



North Vernon







Peru - C&O Rwy Depot





Richmond

                                           



  



Rome City

 



Scottsburg





Seymour

Dan Maners has four pictures of the former JO Tower in Seymour on his North American Interlockings website, look under JO and not Seymour......













South Bend

GPS Coordinates: 41.669386, -86.254852













Sparksville





Syracuse





Terre Haute - Big Four Station







Terre Haute - Union Station







Terre Haute - Haley Tower

GPS Coordinates: 39.486347, -87.396364
The museums website: http://www.wvrrm.org/
My page for the tower is here.

 









Vallonia





Vincennes





Wabash







Warsaw


 





Watson





Washington





West Baden





Winchester

 



Winona Lake



 



Unknown Location

Streetcar of the Indiana RR at an unknown location/station.  From ~1920. Found on EBay.




Disclaimers:

I love trains, and I love signals.  I am not an expert.  My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page.  This is something I have fun with while trying to help others.

Please Note:  Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them.  For those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my indexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike.

If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct.  Once in a while, an error may creep in :-)

My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning.  Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost or disoriented.  Take along good maps.... a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still better if you get lost!  I belong to AAA, which allows you to get local maps for free when you visit the local branches.  ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the railroads on them.  If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and concise graphics, and they do a really good job of showing you where tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads.  Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known.

Aerial shots were taken from either Google or Bing Maps as noted.  Screen captures are made with Snagit, a Techsmith product... a great tool if you have never used it! 

By the way, floobydust is a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data book, and means miscellaneous and/or other stuff.

Pictures and additional information is always needed if anyone feels inclined to take 'em, send 'em, and share 'em, or if you have something to add or correct.... credit is always given!  Please be NICE!!!  Contact info is here

Beware: If used as a source, ANYTHING from Wikipedia must be treated as being possibly being inaccurate, wrong, or not true.

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