GONE FOREVER! CSX Hoosier Sub in 2023: Last Look at Classic Monon Semaphores, Crossings, & Signals

[@crlaw75]

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).

[@UneducatedEngineer444]

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

[@gmftrainvideos]

Nicely done. I love how you rang the bells manually, It sounds really nice hearing them before they are gone.

[@Hopen111YT]

Rip. Thanks for documenting it through!

[@ericzerkle5214]

Seeing the rails removed with the semaphores still standing remined me of the EL being torn up in the early 1980s.

[@charlesgault3777]

I can remember when I was around 5 years old when they pulled up the rails on the old Erie mainline in northern Indiana.

[@scottkew6278]

AWESOME...

[@threepea1151]

There’s a rail trail somewhere in the northwest(?) that has the masts and bells of railroad crossings as a sign that there once was a rail line there

[@MainTrack]

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.

[@RomeKG471]

Rail museums should get those signals!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TrainsAreReallyCool]

F in chat. I really hope someone can get a hold of some of that equipment. Especially the Semaphores.

[@thealexshow2890]

Well people mostly steal them, or put them in a museum

[@kleetus92]

@@thealexshow2890either is better than the scrap bin.

[@crlaw75]

It's interesting how the power of some signals were still there, even though the track was pulled up.

[@kyleb06]

There was still power to everything but it was turned off. They were activated in... ways, let's say. 😉

[@boenaaaaaaaaa]

I Like the Curry Street railroad crossing its sad to See them broken and rusty😢

[@Blank53689]

Many Crossings Still Have The White DOT Signs While Some Had The New Blue One And Still Has The Telegraph Poles

[@kleetus92]

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.

[@finny1548]

1:00 Whoever is going to save those signals I’ll be very happy cause I can’t do that

[@RailfanLogan]

That's crazy that the last train there was only 5 years ago in 2018

[@kyleb06]

Nah, last train was in mid-2009.

[@RailfanLogan]

@@kyleb06 oh. Well that's what I read from a yt video

[@kyleb06]

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.

[@RailfanLogan]

Ah

[@Cnw8701]

This is a serious tragedy!

[@Coloribus2004]

The saddest part about rail trails is that they remove artifacts that have stood there for years. Why not preserve the signals and have them set up along the trail for everyone to enjoy?

[@castercamber]

What about the abandoned box car in Salem?

[@kyleb06]

It was still there along with the spur to it last time I went, but that was 5-6 months ago.

[@codyrapp7253]

When was the line abandend?

[@kyleb06]

Put out of service in mid-2009, officially abandoned in 2017.

[@HVACSirenTowerTrainFanFan2012]

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

[@DolenzFan5]

So they're removing the semaphores? If so I was going to visit

[@kyleb06]

Eventually yes.

[@hannahcallahan4892]

@@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

[@crsd80mac37]

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,

[@railfan5254]

😢😢

[@theisononthecake63]

Why! 😢

[@kenytha5]

Biggest rip to this line.

[@dionwilliams8161]

CSX should've sold the Hoosier Sub to a short line railroad company like Watco or Genesee and Wyoming instead of ripping it up

[@kennethhanks6712]

​@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.

[@railfanlynx]

it sucks the took the tracks out