04-17-2015, 02:22 PM
nachoman Wrote:TN - where is that? What railroad? How old?Kevin, good questions... I had to look it up. Since I'm new to this area, I don't know much about the rail history here. After I dropped my boys off at school this morning, I went exploring and just happened on these bridges.
Looks like an old wooden trestle that has been abandoned a very long time.
It seems, courtesy of abandoned rails.com, "This abandoned railway line was part of the 5th Subdivision of the Monon that ran south from McDoel Yard in Bloomington, IN, to Louisville, KY, just south of the Indiana state line. The Monon connected with the Illinois Central in Bloomington, and with the Milwaukee Road in Bedford."
The article goes on to say that the line had several small spurs built to service some of the quarries in the area. The line between Bloomington and Bedford was abandoned in 1993. The section through Bloomington has been converted from "rails to trails" and I plan on riding it by bicycle in the near future.
The bridges in the pictures were taken just south of Bloomington, about 3 miles out.