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Post by kaylynnfoxgmailcom on Sept 9, 2008 7:43:16 GMT -5
George, I am not as busy today. My other two reply's have some misspelled words SORRY I hope you can conger what I am trying to say. The questions I have about LS Ayres.of Indianaoplis? from the other post above. Would you no if the Interurban stopped close by the store front or not? I am interested about the carts that put supplies on as well Any unusual memories with twists. Thanks for any info at all. From Kaylnn
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2008 19:19:03 GMT -5
Trucks and horse-drawn wagons are unloading at the Indianapolis Traction Terminal's freight sheds at the southeast corner of Capitol Ave and Ohio St.,circa 1916.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2008 19:27:36 GMT -5
Kaylnn,
I'm sorry, but I have been unable to find any information about the interurban making stops at the L. S. Ayres store, will keep looking.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 18:47:11 GMT -5
The interurban was also used for postal service, this is at the Indianapolis Terminal in 1935.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2008 19:58:46 GMT -5
This postcard shows the first Interurban to enter Seymour, the card is postmark June 18, 1909. As can be seen on the front of the car it's stops made after leaving Indianapolis.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2008 20:02:46 GMT -5
Back of Seymour Interurban postcard of 1909.
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Post by RER on May 11, 2009 11:00:05 GMT -5
If You Left Columbus In 1905 On The Interurban Line To Indianapolis You Might Have Ended Up On The Busiest Street Intersection Of The Indiana CapitalLocation is Illinois & Washington Street Indianapolis, IndianaHistorical Transportation & Dressing Comments: Look close there are bicycles, horse drawn carriages, horse drawn carts and wagons. It is like the old transportation methods are merged with the new, however I see no automobiles. The men are sporting straw hats and the women are in fancy dresses and hats of the times. The building designs are beautiful just like Columbus Indiana downtown old Washington Street. Historically, many famous and not so famous Columbus residents took the Interurban train system to Indianapolis to shop and spend a day shopping. Written in these history boards it was known that Joseph I. Irwin, Q.G. Nobblitt and many others loved to take trips on the Interurban, trolleys and trains. When my father bought his first automobile he took the Interurban/train system to Indianapolis and returned to Edinburg with his new car. You have to admit there were a lot of shopping folks, on that corner during 1905. I hope you enjoy the picture as much as I did when I found it in the Library of Congress files. Source of Picture: From the United States Library of Congress
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 20:28:55 GMT -5
This freight car having Columbus on it must have ran between Indianapolis and Columbus, there was not any information with the picture.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 19:58:12 GMT -5
This photo is dated April 21,1938 and shows the Interurban crossing the Flat Rock Bridge at Newsom Ave., the tracks followed Newsom Ave. to Washington St. and then turned south down Washington St. to the Interurban station at 3rd. and Washington St.
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Post by Gregg on Feb 28, 2010 14:03:33 GMT -5
This is just a quick "heads-up" for those who may be interested. Tomorrow, March 1, 2010, at 5:00PM, central time, "Indiana Railroad", a show documenting the inter-urban system that ran through Columbus in the 1930s, will be featured on the show, "Trains and Locomotives", on RFD-TV. That's channel 345 on DirecTV. I saw the show a year or so ago, and while there are only a couple scenes from Columbus, there is quite a bit of footage from Seymour and towns between Columbus and Indianapolis. It's a very informative program.
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Post by David Sechrest on Mar 31, 2010 21:25:21 GMT -5
George--is this the wreck that happened somewhere along the south side of the railroad tracks on Gladstone Ave? Heading toward the old Clifty bridge?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 8:41:03 GMT -5
David......Yes this is the same one. We were living in a apartment that was on the back side of the Custer's grocery at the corner of Oak and Indiana St., I remember my dad and I riding our bicycles to the scene of the wreck.
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 1, 2010 14:54:24 GMT -5
Thanks for posting that George
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Post by RER on Apr 1, 2010 19:34:45 GMT -5
Ref: George's Interurban Train Wreck Newspaper Post During Year 1941This Indiana Railroad train wreck ended the Interurban rail system during the same year of 1941. Here is a brief summary of the demise of the Indiana Interurban Trains after the horrific train wreck. Quote: This article is for the electric interurban railroad of 1930-1941. For the currently operating freight railroad Indiana Rail Road see Indiana Rail Road. Indiana Railroad Interurban The Indiana Railroad (IR) was the last of the typical Midwestern United States interurban lines. It was formed in 1930 by combining the operations of the five major interurban systems in central Indiana into one entity. The predecessor companies had all previously come under the control of Midland Utilities, owned by Samuel Insull. It was Insull's plan to consolidate the Indiana interurban network, modernizing the profitable routes and abandoning the unprofitable ones. With the onset of the Great Depression, the Insull empire collapsed and the Indiana Railroad was left with a decaying infrastructure and little hope for overcoming the competition of the automobile. During the 1930s the Indiana Railroad's lines were all abandoned one by one until a fatal wreck in 1941 put an end to the last operation of interurbans in Indiana. END QUOTE Sources: Wikipedia and go here for full content: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Railroad Picture Source: George's picture post in this thread November 6, 2007. Post number 35 by George.
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 2, 2010 22:03:04 GMT -5
Great stuff, George.
About 10 years ago, I rented a video from the library regarding a history of the interurbans in Indiana. It had a lot of clips of them running along the tracks all over this part of the region. Anyone interested should see if the library still has it. I might see if I can get a copy and burn it to dvd and offer that to the library as well (don't know if they would take it, or if it's ©).
There was a part at the end I remember where they are showing scenes of the old railroad station in Indianapolis and all the congestion, what with cars, busses, and interurbans.
It was really the automobile that killed the interurban.
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