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Indiana Transportation Museum, which has already made a down payment on 1.6 miles of track. According to the filing, the Logansport & Eel River Railroad is seeking relief from federal requirements regarding signage and notices at six grade crossings on the line and notices that the rail line in question is once again back in service. The railroad is also seeking an answer regarding whom â the Logansport & Eel River or connecting railroad Toledo, Peoria & Western, a Genesee & Wyoming company â is responsible for replacing a switch which used to connect the short line to the TP&W. Logansport & Eel River is arguing that the switch was removed without permission and TP&W wants $ 86,500 for a new switch. In the filing, Logansport & Eel River states the railroad is ready to re-install signage once a decision is made about the responsibility for the switch.
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A court ruled that the Eel River
Railroad's charter was forfeited by its lease to a competing company (the Wabash), leading to the bondholders regaining control of the railroad. The Wabash continued to use the line on an interim lease until 1902, when the Wabash completed a 25.6-mile (41.2 km)
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Since being completely abandoned in 1977, the ground which laid the railroad has been left mostly untouched, leaving behind a ghostly touch of the past. Most of the larger bridges have been removed, but many of the smaller wooden bridges covering creeks remain. In
Logansport, the path of the line
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Magazine reported that the
Logansport & Eel River Railroad was seeking a waiver for a requirement to put a section of out-of-service track back into service. The Federal Railroad Administration filing says the railroad, which currently exists in name only, is seeking the relief as part of a
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was opened, On
October 18, 1873, the section between Auburn and Butler was completed. The entire line opened in 1874, completed by the Detroit, Eel River and Illinois Railroad. The company was reorganized in 1877 as the Eel River Railroad.
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has been turned into a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) asphalt surface trail, called the River Bluff Trail, and a similar effort is in the works between South
Whitley and Columbia City, called the Eel River Trail.
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to ease movements with a connecting line from Chili to Peru, abandoning the line between Chili and
Logansport. Bondholders residing in the Logansport area, in outage, began a ten-year legal battle.
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Griffith (1998). "Butler to Auburn, Churubusco to Columbia City (Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad)".
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placed on the line between Auburn and Butler due to poor conditions, abandonment of the line began in 1954 with complete abandonment by 1977.
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beginning in 1917. During this era, the line obtained the "Butler Branch" designation. From that northeast Indiana town,
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began operating the branch directly on January 1, 1921, with a lease of the PCC&StL.
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to its main line at Logansport, and they used the line as a key connecting link between
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Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (PCC&StL)
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Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad lines
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in 1901, when operations were transferred to the PRR's
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1026:"Donor gifts land to Eel River Trail project"
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1172:Transportation in DeKalb County, Indiana
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1064:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1032:. Columbia City, Indiana. Archived from
376:Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
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131:Detroit, Eel River and Illinois Railroad
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1182:Transportation in Noble County, Indiana
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282:Indiana State Route 205
218:from 1905 to 1916, and
202:between Logansport and
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905:"PRR Chronology, 1953"
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568:Recent developments
328:St. Louis, Missouri
259:Grand Rapids Branch
214:from 1901 to 1904,
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625:Keystone Crossings
576:In March of 2019,
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105:Dates of operation
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141:Route map
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395:Chicago
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