Monon F units photographed inside the Monon Railroad Lafayette, IN shops on 08/02/59 using ASA 10 Kodachrome. Original Kodachrome slide. Photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.
Monon Shops, Lafayette, IN, 08/02/59. Original Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.
Ersatz Monon but looking magnificent the lead units of the "Fair Train" are outside on a beautiful winter day. Photo by Mike Dolenski.
Monon's Chicago to Louisville train 5 the "Thoroughbred" at Lafayette, Indiana with F3A 205 on the point, in June 1962. Photo by L.A. Marre , photo part of my slide collection.
It was a gray and gloomy day however visitors to the Kentucky Railway Museum then located in east Louisville prepare to board a Monon BL2 lead train.
Monon's main shop facilities at Lafayette, Indiana. In this view five Monon F3's side by side on September 4, 1961. No photographer information listed on slide, from my collection.
A southbound Monon passenger train makes a scheduled stop in Lafayette, IN during a picture perfect day. John E. Troxler collection, photographer unknown.
Monon #502 leads train #6 passing Vernia Siding in New Albany,IN.
A quartet of Monon F-units, leads a northbound freight through Borden, Indiana in August 1960. Photo from my slide collection, no photographer's name Listed.
Leading this southbound Monon freight is F3A #201, BL-2 #32, two more F3A's and an FM H15-44 #45 at Harrodsburg, Indiana on, Monon's Bloomington to Bedford Line in March 1965. Photo taken from my... (more)
Unknown photographer photo, from my slide collection.
Taken from the nose of a BL2, the Monon has placed its caboose in position for a return drag home to Hammond after dropping off a transfer to the BRC's Clearing Yard. Tom Golden photo.
Tom Golden photo.
A pair of the Monon's distinctive BL2s haul a Clearing Yard-Hammond transfer run through Pullman Junction in South Chicago. The EMD BL2, a late-1940s transitional model between cab units and road ... (more)
Monon 502 leads a Louisville to Chicago freight off the K&IT bridge and onto Vincennes Street in New Albany, Indiana where the train will spend much of the next two miles of its journey navigating... (more)
Monon #5 passenger train pauses in Lafayette, IN on its southbound journey through Indiana during July 1961. From the John E. Troxler collection. Photographer unknown.
The Monon owned nine EMD BL2s, a strange evolutionary step between cab units and GP7s. Some found BL2s to be hopelessly ugly; I always thought they were kind of neat because they were so different... (more)
On a hot and hazy midwestern summer afternoon, the Monon crew has the cab door open for a breath of fresh air as their pair of Alco Century 420s approaches State Line Tower in Hammond, IN, with a ... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
Considered an ugly duckling by many, I'm quite the fan of the BL2 body lines, and especially like the black and gold of the Monon scheme on them. Here #32 sits behind the shops of the Kentucky Rai... (more)
Monon (CIL) GE U23B No.605
Monon (CIL) Alco C628 No.406
Monon (CIL) freight train with three Alco C628's No.407,405 and 400 in Bedford, Indiana February 05, 1967. No photographer listed on slide.
Monon (CIL) freight train with two Alco C628's No.404 and 400 in Hammond, Indiana September 17, 1967. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.
The Thoroughbred A Roger Puta Photograph
Monon F3(A) 81A with F3(A) 85B in the colors of Monon's freight diesels were Black and Gold, pulling Chicago to Louisville train No.6 (The Thoroughbred) August 9, 1960 at Smithville, Indiana. Pho... (more)
A turntable and roundhouse from my slide collection with no name on the slide. Need help with this location.
This car is noted as being the first all aluminum open top hopper built in the United States by Alcoa in 1931. It was the prototype car and is lettered Monon to reflect the heritage of the rail li... (more)
Two things Indiana is known for - corn and the Monon. Monon had a number of dual-purpose boxcars (boppers) designed with covered hopper-like loading hatches on the top for agricultural products. C... (more)
This wrecking crane doubles as a sign holder for this nice railroad museum near Monon.
An all-Alco consist on the Monon, a RS-2 is sandwiched between two bigger brother DL-628s as they lug tonnage northbound at Mitchell, Indiana, Nov. 27, 1966.
SW1 DS 50, pulls the Leviathan Southbound heading to Fishers down the famous street running in Noblesville.
Not sure of the location on this train.
Monon F3(A) #82A on train #6 rolls down the middle of 5th street in Lafayette, IN. 35mm slide taking from my collection, photographer unknown.
Monon's F3's #207 departing Dearborn Station with the 'Thoroughbred'. We also can see Chicago & Western Indiana RS-1 #254 busy switching Erie-Lackawanna cars in the yards. The Monon, at one tim... (more)
K&I Bridge in the background
Monon's "Thoroughbred" boards passengers in Mitchell Indiana
Monon's "Thoroughbred" passing the semaphores at Salem. Photo by Tom Smart from my collection. I was a little over one year old when this photo was taken.
Clean machine in 1966.
The final remnant of the Monon's "Thoroughbred" boards passengers in Bloomington Indiana. On the north side of McDoel Yard where the Monon's last passenger station in Bloomington was constructed.
A Monon caboose Tries to stay warm on a cold April night. 8 Second exposure/ f5.6 / ISO 200.
KRM's 2pm trip passes through Holton Valley Farms northbound.
Taken from the Roosevelt Road overpass.
While L&N mail and express train number 4 readies for departure, Monon’s number 6 rolls out for Chicago in this Louisville Union Station scene from 1964. Number 4’s power is a motley mix of E6... (more)
Monon BL2 #32 heads up the afternoon excursion train at the Kentucky Railway Museum's station in New Haven, KY.
KRM's Monon BL2 waits for its next call to duty.
Power and caboose for an evening southbound heads north. A dismal day, but at least the snow is gone.
KRM's Monon BL2 leads an excursion through the woods at Nelsonville.
Rare birds indeed were Monon’s nine Alco C628s (400-408), acquired in 1964. A third of the entire roster is shown at Louisville’s Youngtown Yard in June 1965. The Hoosier Line deemed the big-f... (more)
KRM's Monon BL2 #32 performs a run-by on a fantrip northbound on the Monon north of New Albany, IN. The Louisville to Bloomington and return excursion had an unexpected delay at Bedford on the re... (more)
From the archives of the Bluegrass Railway Museum. Monon 207, sits at Union Station in Louisville, KY on 9-1-1963. Scanned from a printed photo. Photographer unknown.
Monon train #5, the southbound Thoroughbred arriving from Chicago. The photo was taken at the north end of the K&IT yard in Louisville. The train will continue on the K&IT main to K&... (more)
Ex. Milwaukee Road F7 painted in Monon colors brings up the other end of the Indiana State Fair train at Fishers. On the other end NKP 587 has the honors of pulling the train south.
This museum is an awesome find for anyone into signals. There are at least 25 different signals there.
With the influx of great photos recording the last days of the old Monon semaphores, I thought it might be fitting to share a photo of the semaphores when Monon power still ruled the rails. There... (more)
A nortbound Monon passenger train cruises up the 5th Street trackage in downtown Lafayette. Photo date is approximate. [From the collection of my grandfather, J.T. Childers I]
In 1989 the Central Railway Co. of Indianapolis was formed and they were short on power. They leased two Monon painted F units from the Indiana Transportation Museum for several months. The two un... (more)