The cantilever searchlight signal shown in this photo was part of a rail consolidation project combining Conrail and Grand Trunk Western routes through Battle Creek in the 1980s.
Clarks Hill, 20 miles west of Lebanon and 16 miles east of Lafayette on the Indiana Division main line, is about as midwestern a village of 493 persons as can be found, on the NYC at least (the Peoria & Eastern has a few near-perfect prototypes on…