Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society

Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society The Facebook home of the Monon Railroad Historical Technical Society, Inc. https://monon.org

The Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society is housed in the Depot Museum in Salem, IN. The Museum is open to the public, the Society's facilities are not open to the public, except on Board Meeting days when Society members are welcome to attend.

Ames Junction was last week’s Monon Monday. Congratulations to those who guessed correctly, especially to E.J. Caylor wh...
09/05/2026

Ames Junction was last week’s Monon Monday. Congratulations to those who guessed correctly, especially to E.J. Caylor who got it in 8 minutes. Impressive!

I never did get the present day pictures posted up- so I will do that now. The archive photos will follow.

This was a fairly difficult spot to get to as industry has taken over three sides of it. Without trespassing I was standing as close as I could get to the Monon line. In the Monon Monday photo, the Peoria and Eastern (P&E) is behind me and the Monon was to my far left, the photographer’s right.

Ames Junction is in the south east corner of Crawfordsville, just north of Nibble Park. It is where the Monon, P&E (owned by the New York Central) and the Vandalia (Pennsylvania Railroad) lines come together.
The area has changed significantly over time.

I will add captions as I have time, please feel free to add some.








The Munster Dyer station on the Monon Corridor was this week’s Monon Monday picture spot. Congratulations to all who gue...
09/02/2026

The Munster Dyer station on the Monon Corridor was this week’s Monon Monday picture spot.
Congratulations to all who guessed correctly! Special congrats goes to Mel Davidson Perzo who got it in five minutes. Well done 👍

As part of the MRHTS convention we rode the Monon Corridor from Munster Dyer to the Hammond Gateway station then hopped on the South Shore Line and rode it out to South Bend. We ate lunch at the airport and then did the trip in reverse. It was a great trip and part of a great convention. Thank you to all who joined us for a big weekend of Monon, Monon and more Monon 🚂 🚊 😃

In addition to the day of riding trains, we had some wonderful speakers for our dinners on Friday and Saturday evening. We learned about the Michigan Central and how it relates to the Monon from Kevin Keefe, we also got to see a great slide presentation on the Monon before and after from John Eagan, and then had two speakers to tell us all about the NICTD’s West Lake Corridor project (now known as the Monon Corridor). The board of directors meeting was Sunday morning and then we hosted a swap meet from 11-2. Wow! It was a packed weekend and well worth the time.

Here’s pictures from our fun weekend. I already posted some video of our train rides but have a few more rail fan videos to share as well.

I know I also need to get back to Ames to finish that up from last week but first I wanted to get the convention stuff up so those who didn’t join us can see what they missed out on. 😊

Happy Hump Day, friends!






What a whirlwind weekend 🤩 Hope you all had a great one too! I haven’t finished up Ames Junction from last week.. but no...
08/31/2026

What a whirlwind weekend 🤩
Hope you all had a great one too!
I haven’t finished up Ames Junction from last week.. but no worries there, we will get to that very soon.

First off we need to do this little thing called Monon Monday 🥳

I am standing somewhere on the Monon line.

Where am I? 🤔 🤷‍♀️
Name the place! 🚉 🛤️



08/30/2026

First car view on the South Shore Line, heading east. 🚆
Yesterday’s ride for the MRHTS convention to South Bend from Hammond Gateway. 79mph!

Video courtesy of ace videographer, James Craig. Thank you, Jim!



swap meet, Hyatt Hotel in Munster
08/30/2026

swap meet, Hyatt Hotel in Munster

08/29/2026

79 mph on the Monon Corridor!

At the MRHTS convention in Hammond.
This was our morning’s ride to Hammond Gateway station. 🚉


I bet you’re excited it’s Monday because it is time for another amazing round of the best game on fb, Monon Monday! 🥳 He...
08/24/2026

I bet you’re excited it’s Monday because it is time for another amazing round of the best game on fb, Monon Monday! 🥳

Here I am, standing somewhere on the Monon line with my arms stretched out looking like I’m gonna take off 🦅

Where am I?! 🤔 🤷‍♀️
Name the place! 🚂 🛤️



This week’s Monon Monday was Romney 🚂 Romney was first platted by Josiah Halstead and Major Harvey Aristide of Crawfords...
08/23/2026

This week’s Monon Monday was Romney 🚂

Romney was first platted by Josiah Halstead and Major Harvey Aristide of Crawfordsville in 1832. They determined it to be a good place for a stage coach stop and an advantageous trading post with the Indians.

Originally named Columbia, the town had a tavern and a large barn where the horses for the stage coach were kept and changed. A Blacksmith shop, church and school were built and as more settlers arrived several houses followed. Some of these settlers came from Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia) and out of love for their old home in Virginia they had the name changed from Columbia to Romney in 1846.

The railroad came to town in 1851-1852 as part of the Crawfordsville and Wabash.

By 1879 Romney had two Blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a general store, post office drug store, a grocery store, an Odd Fellows hall, Masonic Lodge, two churches and a cemetery.

In 1901 a bank was established and was in business at that location until atleast 1932, at the writing of Romney’s Centennial publication. The bank is the same building as the present day post office, which explains the interesting shape of it.

Romney’s main (and perhaps only?) business on the railroad was grain. Romney had a grain elevator up until atleast 2004.

Romney is also known for boasting the last pair of operating semaphore signals which came down in December of 2010.

Hope you enjoy the following pictures of Romney. A few are from our archives, there’s a wonderful Barriger photo and some pictures are borrowed from the Monon bygone page. You will also find a few ads and pictures from the publication in 1932 for Romney’s Centennial.
🛤️ 📸



This week’s Monon Monday was Romney. For those who are interested here’s the remainder of the pictures we took on our vi...
08/22/2026

This week’s Monon Monday was Romney. For those who are interested here’s the remainder of the pictures we took on our visit.

I’m heading out to the lake later today to have some fun in the sun so I don’t have time to get the history posted today. I will get that up for you tomorrow along with a few photos from our archives.

Here’s wishing you a wonderful weekend!
Cheers 🍻 ☀️ ⛵️



08/19/2026

This week’s Monon Monday was the location of the Romney depot. Technically it is now called Corwin, which is a little west of Romney but the name of the stop was Romney so we are calling it Romney. Congratulations to those who guessed correctly, especially Matt Dickerson who got it in a mere 14 minutes. That’s great work- it’s not easy to know when there’s so many silos along the Monon in northern Indiana.

We were filling up with gas, about to go to the spot for our Monon Monday pictures when I heard the horn for this train.

So we quit filling up and raced to the nearest crossing, at CR 1100 South (SR 28).

I will get some Romney history and the rest of the present day pictures posted up soon, so check back in.

Happy Hump Day! 🚂



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