Tag: Indiana Air Line Railway

• “Central Indiana Interurban” chronicles the state’s electric trains

  There was a time when electric railroads, called interurbans, crisscrossed the state, connecting the small villages and large cities of Indiana. “I was about 10 when my mother first started letting me take the interurban on my own,” recalls Lorraine Simon, who was born in East Chicago in 1911. “My mother would put me on…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  November 14, 2020

  Audiobooks, Chicago, Historic Architecture, History, Indiana, Northwest Indiana, Travel

  Arcadia Publishing, Central Indiana Interurbans, Chicago, Depots, Electric trains, Historis, Indiana Air Line Railway, Interurbans, Muncie Meteor, Northwest Indiana, Public Transportation, South Shore, South Shore Line, Trains