GONE FOREVER! CSX Hoosier Sub in 2023: Last Look at Classic Monon Semaphores, Crossings, & Signals
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
- On Sunday, March 26th, 2023, me and @IllinoisCentralVideography and @railfanproductions3294 took our last chance to explore and document the CSX Hoosier Sub before its ultimate demise. In February, CSX completely the sale of most of the line from Bedford to just north of New Albany to Radius Indiana, while selling the remaining 4 abandoned miles into New Albany to the city of New Albany. CSX still owns and operates 3 miles of the line there to serve Sazerac Distilling, and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
The Hoosier Sub is a very historical line. It is the southern 60 or so miles of the Monon Railroad's mainline from Chicago to Louisville. Not only is it very scenic (for Indiana standards, at least), but it also features a DTC block system and ABS signals, most of which are classic semaphores. Almost all of them have had their blades stolen/saved, however 4 remain with blades, including one complete set in Campbellsburg. Other signals include US&S searchlights, an odd colorlight/searchlight combo at Smedley, and at one point 2 newer "Darth Vader" signals, however one was recently removed by CSX. CSX has already gone through and removed any signal equipment they see value in (i.e. modern stuff), and the rest will likely be thrown away.
We also took a look at several crossings and shook the signals in order to hear the bells ring one last time.
The City of New Albany and Radius Indiana both have full intentions to build a trail on this right of way, named the "Monon South Trail."
Enjoy this last look at CSX's Hoosier Sub before it is gone forever!
0:00 Yockey Road, Yockey, IN
0:12 Mitchell Interlocking (Indiana Sub diamonds removed)
0:26 Grissom Avenue, Mitchell, IN
0:33 Curry Street, Mitchell, IN
0:56 Mitchell Signal Yard
1:02 Orleans "Fogg," IN
1:15 Saltillo, IN
1:25 Campbellsburg, IN
1:52 Just south of Campbellsburg, IN
1:56 Smedley, IN
2:07 Hitchcock, IN
2:13 Rush Creek Road, near Salem, IN
2:16 Market Street, Salem, IN
2:30 High Street, Salem, IN
2:33 Salem Depot Railroad Museum
2:41 Bata Road, near Salem, IN
2:52 Harristown Road, Harristown, IN
2:55 MP 287.8, near Salem, IN
3:11 NE Borden, IN
3:27 Broom Hill, IN
3:31 Bald Knob Road, near New Albany, IN - Hry
When you shake the crossing post at :28, it reminds me of the '77 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where Richard Dreyfuss' character drives the yellow Ford truck to the crossing, the UFO goes up behind him, shines a very bright beam on the crossing and the post violently shakes (that used to scare me when I was a kid).
Nicely done. I love how you rang the bells manually, It sounds really nice hearing them before they are gone.
I am a local here in Judah Indiana. Me and my dad always talk about the monon, he remembers it well. It used to run through Guthrie which blows my mind. I plan on modeling it in ho scale
I Like the Curry Street railroad crossing its sad to See them broken and rusty😢
Seeing the rails removed with the semaphores still standing remined me of the EL being torn up in the early 1980s.
When looking at abandoned railroads like this, I’m always shocked at how quickly Mother Nature reclaims things. It never takes long for weeds, brush, and trees to erase the path of a mainline railroad.
Rip. Thanks for documenting it through!
Rail museums should get those signals!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOME...
F in chat. I really hope someone can get a hold of some of that equipment. Especially the Semaphores.
Well people mostly steal them, or put them in a museum
@@thealexshow2890either is better than the scrap bin.
1:00 Whoever is going to save those signals I’ll be very happy cause I can’t do that
Many Crossings Still Have The White DOT Signs While Some Had The New Blue One And Still Has The Telegraph Poles
It's interesting how the power of some signals were still there, even though the track was pulled up.
There was still power to everything but it was turned off. They were activated in... ways, let's say. 😉
This is a serious tragedy!
0:57 not sure what kind of crossing gate that is, most of the ones I've seen have much more refined guts and a totally different layout for the cam switches, relay and clutch.
I hate that they are gonna remove this entire line and they should just leave the signals and tracks there
This is what happened in Shelbyville
That's crazy that the last train there was only 5 years ago in 2018
Nah, last train was in mid-2009.
@@kyleb06 oh. Well that's what I read from a yt video
The video may have possibly been talking about the southern 3 miles, which, as I stated in the description, are still in use to this day, however I believe there was a short break in traffic down there around that time.
Ah
rip. up and down the monon all the way. but it is crazy to think those where there in the steam Eara and still counited to stand decades later. until now,
Thank our 'leaders' for shipping every manufacturing job to CHYNA...
This abandonment has nothing to do with politics.
blud thinks joe biden caused this to happen ☠
@@kyleb06I beg to differ. If the industries that were on this line were still here, the line would still be in use. We've been systematically disassembled since the mid late 60's when everything started sneaking over to china for extremely cheap labor. The fact that our government today, in 2023 STILL considers china to be a 'developing country' and continues to carve out exemptions for them should obvious why we're in serious trouble.
Now there's not much of anything remaining, to the point that if we ever did have to build something on our own, we physically can't. Try to find a forge in the USA. Can't do it.
Why! 😢
😢😢
What about the abandoned box car in Salem?
It was still there along with the spur to it last time I went, but that was 5-6 months ago.
When was the line abandend?
Put out of service in mid-2009, officially abandoned in 2017.
So they're removing the semaphores? If so I was going to visit
Eventually yes.
@@kyleb06 im going to see who i can contact to buy a set at scrap value. id love to save some of this old equipment. any idea who to contact. thanks
Biggest rip to this line.
CSX should've sold the Hoosier Sub to a short line railroad company like Watco or Genesee and Wyoming instead of ripping it up
@dionwilliams8161 Any interested party could have made an offer during the abandonment process but there was just not that much traffic potential left and the Indiana state gov displayed no interest in supporting any preservation attempt.
it sucks the took the tracks out