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Spending 2 weeks in Indy IN...Searching for relics of Interurbans...

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Spending 2 weeks in Indy IN...Searching for relics of Interurbans...
Posted by Brooklyn Trolley Dodger on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:27 PM

  First I need to know were the Interurban Station was...

   Then I need to know what remnents of right of way still exists as in humps and bridges

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Posted by wallyworld on Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:36 PM

The grand interurban terminal is long gone. There is one remnant to the South Of Indianapolis that my be worth a trip ...just Google Southern Indiana Railroad..there's a couple of websites to explore.

http://www.trainweb.org/indianashortlines/SIND.htm

The former Big Four Bridge that the Interstate and later Indiana RR used to cross into Louisville is a huge steel monstrosity straddling and spanning an appreciable distance with both approaches long since removed. I have seen it many a time passing through and the first time was fairly dramatic, it loomed out of the ground fog like a ghost of some long vanished world.

Image:Big4Bridge.JPG

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Posted by joseph2 on Friday, April 27, 2007 12:47 AM
here is a link to a busy Indiana forum',you may wish to post yor question on the interurban section.  www.indianarailroads.org/board/     joe

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