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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar ....Ah yea, the line running through Muncie that is now N S and question as to what it used to be...Glad someone helped on that one as It has completely slipped my mind. I can say this of that line now....Some years ago it was completely rebuilt into a class one type of route...that is the one that now has much traffic through Muncie from the north to the south and I believe down through the "Rat Hole Div." and on down towards Jacksonville, Fl. That NS line also branches out to the north west from Muncie too as well it must still head north east....Through Albany, In. and so on....perhaps as Joe says, through Celina, Oh...all though I personally don't know that for sure. We have another route right besides the one we're speaking of in downtown Muncie, at the Wysor St. Depot....[Now being renovated into the Trail Head], and that route was in the past the Nickle Plate...C&O...and then CSX...Even had an Amtrak route traveling on it....The Cardinal, back in the seventy's. It is now the Cardinal Greenway Trail...20 miles of paved walking and bike riding trail....and it is really nice. "Close encounters of the 3rd kind land"....???? Sorry, don't follow what that is... [/quote] Don't get it? ................[:o)] You must be a youngster. "Muncie" was where all the action started in the flying saucer movie by the same name. I was just curious to confirm that was the old NKP line that used to snake it's way N-S through eastern Indiana, as it joins the line in question just a stones throw west of here, and the hot shot in question may well have originated down your way, (Cincinnati ?) not sure. Curiously, the old NKP line in question now terminates where it joins the nearly moribund conrail, former Pennsey line, and doesn't even join the former NKP main through town anymore, that section was torn up as part of a local revitalization project. I think Joe was talking about an E-W route that originaly was narrow guage, to St Louis
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