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French Lick Scenic Rwy Sign |
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Posted in front of the historic 1907 limestone Monon depot in French Lick, IN, is the sign for the French Lick Scenic Railway run by the Indiana Rwy Museum there. It takes an 18 mile round trip through the Hoosier National Forest including the second longest train tunnel in Indiana, the Burton Tunnel. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:50:00 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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Line of IRM Passenger Cars |
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Standing next to the former Monon depot built in 1907 from Indiana limestone is the string of passenger cars used in the French Lick Scenic Railway exursion train into the Hoosier National Forest. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:53:54 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Table Car #1720 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Originally built by Pullman-Standard in 1949 as ACL 54 seat coach #247, it was used in the City of Miami car pool. In 1971, it was sold to Amtrak as #5479. Later it was sold to at least one private owner before landing at the Indiana Railway Museum. It was rebuilt in 2019 as a table car for multi-puirpose uses. For some strange reason, the IRM chose a Northern Pacfiic color scheme for their southern Hoosier based tourist train. Whatever happened to the Hoosier Monon colors so prevalent in French Lick at one time??? |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:54:00 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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Gary Everhart |
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IRM Table Car #1720 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Another view of Indiana Rwy Museum table car standing next to the former Monon French Lick depot. The car was originally built as ACL @247. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:54:13 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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Gary Everhart |
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IRM Table Car #1720 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Close up of the reporting mark, RPCX #1720. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:54:38 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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Gary Everhart |
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IRM Diner/lounge #1710 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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This car is a real boomer car having jumped from one roster to another. Here's a short synopsis - Originally built in 1950 as Norfolk & Western Pulaski County, a 10 Roomette – 6 Double Bedroom Sleeper. The car was used for the overnight Pocahontas (Norfolk-Columbus). The car was conveyed sometime in the 1950s to the Pennsylvania Railroad who converted it to a 72 Seat Coach to supplement capacity for the 1964 World’s Fair. After 1971, it was used in the Penn Central and then sold to New Jersey Transit for commuter train service. The car was again sold in 1989 to the United Railroad Historical Society until it was acquired by Ringling in 1992. Used in the Blue Unit. Purchased by Paxrail in 2017, the housing interior was removed in 2018. Sold in 2019 to the French Lick Scenic Railroad and rebuilt into an ADA-complaint dining car. Delivered to FLSR painted in NP North Coast Limited colors to match the French Lick consist. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:55:29 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Diner/lounge #1710 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Here is a view from the depot side of the former Norfolk & Western Pulaski County, now Indiana Rwy Museum 1710 used on the French Lick Scenic Rwy. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:55:34 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Diner/lounge #1710 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Close up of the reporting mark, RPCX 1710. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:55:40 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Dome #550 "Homestake Pass" - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Here is another wandering car that ended up in southern Indiana on the French Lick Scenic Rwy. Short history - built as dome-coach #550 by the Budd Company in 1954. Owned by the Northern Pacific Railway, it ran on the North Coast Limited until it was acquired by Amtrak in 1971. It was sold into private ownership in 1995 as Amtrak divested itself of its heritage fleet. The car ran on the American Orient Express in the late-1990s and into the 2000s as the American Spirit before being leased to the Alaska Railroad, where it ran from 2005-2007. The car ran in a variety of excursion service from 2007-2014 before being acquired by Paxrail in 2016 and named Homestake Pass. The car features 66 coach seats, 24 of which are dome seats. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:03 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Dome #550 "Homestake Pass" - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Here is another view of the former Northern Pacific dome car #550, Homestake Pass, sitting next to the former Monon French Lick depot. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:07 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Coach #2545 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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This former Rock Island coach #2545 now serves on the French Lick Scenic Rwy. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:13 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Coach #2511 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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This former Rock Island coach car #2511 now serves on the French Lick Scenic Rwy excursion train run by the Indiana Rwy Museum in French Lick, IN. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:17 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Open Air Coach #650534 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Couldn't find out much about this ex-flat-car rebuilt into an open air coach car for the French Lick Scenic Ray run by the indiana Rwy Museum. On a good fall day, this would be an ideal car to view the fall colors and smell the leave smoke! |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:23 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Open Air Coach #650534 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Here is another view of the rebuilt open air coach, IRM #650534, serving the French Lick Scenic Rwy. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:29 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Open Air Coach #650534 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Rear viw of the open air coach on the French Lick Scenic Rwy with its backup lights. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:56:33 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Open Air Coach #650534 - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Close up of the French Lick Scenic Rwy open air coach info. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:57:19 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Businee Car #500, "Indianapolis" - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Here is another boomer car that bounced around from one railroad to another before landing in French Lick, IN. Here's a "short" summary of the car - built by Pullman 1914, originally Baltimore No. 105, changed to Baltimore No. 5 in 1915, changed to Baltimore with USRA #26 in 1918, changed to Baltimore [no #] in 1920, rebuilt by ACF in “1915” (this must be an error, must have meant 1925) to Maryland No. 2, changed to Southland No. 2 in 1927, changed to Birmingham 1953, eventually into private ownership of David McClure, and finally at the French Lick Scenic Rwy. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:57:23 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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IRM Businee Car #500, "Indianapolis" - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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Here is another view of the French Lick Scenic Rwy business car #500, the "Indianapolis", although it no longer carries that name like it did at one time. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:57:28 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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Gary Everhart |
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IRM Businee Car #500, "Indianapolis" - French Lick Scenic Rwy |
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The two business cars at the Indiana Rwy Museum have their open vestibules facing each other. On the left in the Monon business car #2, "Lynne", which at this moment is now heading north to its new home at the Hoosier Valley RR Museum. To the right is the Indiana Rwy Museum business car #500, "Indianapolis", which has a long and varied history already summarized in a previous photo in this album. |
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8/13/2023 Upload Date: 10/22/2023 5:57:35 AM |
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French Lick, IN |
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Gary Everhart |
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