Nostalgia & History > Past & Present - My Entry - Huntington, Indiana

The first photo I took of the EL in Huntington, Indiana some time in the early to mid-1960's. My late grandmother lived about 2 blocks from the Wabash and about 4 blocks from the Erie. As a boy I would walk from her home to the Erie tracks and watch the Alcos switch, passenger trains come and go as well as a few freights. I would also witness Wabash trains hit the Erie diamond. I probably used my father's camera to take the picture, at this time, an Argus C-33. I may have had my own camera at this time which consisted of an Argus C-3.
The second photo was taken on August 8, 2007 near the same location as the first. The only evidence I could find of anything Erie were the rails in the pavement. Everything else was gone. Progress, I guess.

Roger Holmes

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Is the Erie river bridge still there? It's been several years since I've been there.

I didn't check to see if the Erie bridge was still there. The Wabash freight and passenger depots are still there, but not used by the NS.

How depressing

yes, the bridge is still there.thats about the only other thing in huntington left beside the rails in the pavement.

what direction is the freight train heading? and in the second photo what direction would that be?

Here is another view of the Huntington Ind Depot from my collection.

The photographer (unknown) was more interested in the locomotive than the depot obviously.

Yardclerk

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what direction is the freight train heading? and in the second photo what direction would that be?

The freight is westbound...in each photo I'm facing east.

Roger

Thanks yardclerk for sharing that other photo!! I've seen a few photos of Huntington but this is one of the best I've seen.

Roger Holmes
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