From the steps of B Tower, the scene to the west includes the freight leads, in line with the camera; the passenger mains, curving across to their right; and the Jackson-Elkhart main in the right foreground. Traffic is stopped on Main and Middlebury…
For its size (1960 population 40,274), Elkhart, Indiana, is probably as unadulterated a railroad town as there is in the highly-developed industrial area comprised of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. It is, moreover, a one railroad town, with the Central…