Before the Signals Fall: Chasing J780 Round Trip on the CSX Indiana Sub
For just about a century, Baltimore and Ohio CPL Signals have kept guard over the Indiana Subdivision, a piece of B&O's mainline to St. Louis.
But it seems like that era is slowly coming to an end, with modern signal replacements popping up around Seymour. I wanted to capture the line as it still looks before more new signals replace the old, so on October 7th and 8th, 2021, I chased local J780 from North Vernon to Mitchell and back. The scenery was very nice, and the signals could convince you this was still a B&O mainline, not a glorified branch.
Timestamps:
North Vernon 0:00
Butlerville 3:20
Returning to North Vernon 13:19
Hayden 14:52
New Elizabethtown 16:05
Brownstown 16:46
Tunnelton 18:18
Mitchell 19:42
Tunnelton Eastbound 22:18
Medora 25:25
Brownstown 28:06
Seymour 29:47
Hayden 31:12