Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Three Vie for One School Board Seat; Greentown To Be 150 Years Old; "Main Street" Officers Elected; Large Steel Beam Installed; Glass Festival to be June 6-8, 1996
Inclined railroads; Railroad cuts; Public utility companies; IKE; Madison; Railroads
The incline is once again cleaned up and ready for business. This clean up was done to enable the Indiana-Kentucky Electric (IKE) plant to use the tracks for moving heavy equipment to its site on the river front.
This is a photograph of the old Pennsylvania Railroad depot in Dupont, Indiana. The wooden crates stacked beside the depot are egg crates ready to be put on the train. Two gentlemen stand in the doorway. It is surmised that the one on the left...
On March 28, 1896 at St. Louis, a great, black cloud loomed menacingly over the city. The "City of Monroe" chanced to be moored at the Anchor Line wharf-boat, ready to start on her regular trip to New Orleans. She was heavily laden with freight...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Excursion boats; "Belle of Louisville"; "Idlewild"; "Avalon"; Rivers
The "Idlewild" was sold to J. Harold Gorsage in 1947 and the name was changed to "Avalon". She became the most widely traveled excursion boat on the rivers. During her tramping days she made stops at Omaha, Nebraska; New Orleans; Stillwater,...
The inscription on the old picture reads, "Madison & Milton Ferry Landing--1908." The landing at Madison and the ferryboat, "Trimble" looked much like this during the winter of 1917 and 1918 when some of the worst weather of the century hit much...
The inscription on the picture reads, "Train 927, ready for the last passenger run out of Madison, June 30, 1931. Compliments of the engineer J. R. Pogue." With this brief passage Mr. Pogue summarized almost 100 years of railroading in Madison,...
We know little about this picture. Were the name "Wirt" not clearly defined over the door, we would not be able to identify it at all. There is a rail cart behind the gentleman and he seems to have what may be the mailbag. He may be ready to...
