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Dead Soldiers, Part Three
Continuing a short, sad series of posts documenting the demise of color position signals along the Baltimore & Ohio line between Cincinnati and St. Louis. These images were made two days apart.
Currently the line is operated by CSX, but was built as the Ohio and Mississippi—the location is Brownstown, Indiana.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken November 13th and 15th.
Brownstown Memory
Here are some shots from today—juxtaposed with a couple from the late 1970s (as teased in the previous post).
We're along an old railroad: built (in broad gauge no less) as the Ohio & Mississippi prior to the Civil War. It became the Baltimore & Ohio later, and was still so, though becoming the Chessie System, when I photographed it as an adolescent. This siding is called Brownstown, though it's removed a bit from the burg itself.
I was looking west for the first two images (that is the same curve in both shots, though difficult to tell). I turned for the going-away shot and have a pretty good comparison capture made today.
Five images by Richard Koenig; two from October 22nd 1977, and three from November 13th 2024.
