bandorr2000
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 Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: MONON Colors |
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Frome the monon.com website :
The MONON served five major Universities in Indiana, Purdue University (West Lafayette), Wabash College (Crawfordsville), DePauw University (Greencastle), Indiana University (Bloomington), and Butler University (Indianapolis). The state's decision to put Purdue University at Lafayette in 1869 had partly to do with MONON service, there since 1852. So important was the college traffic that the road painted its passenger rolling stock the red and gray of Wabash College, and painted its freight engines black and gold of DePauw University (not Indiana University and Purdue University as is commonly thought). In 1959, after the Indianapolis to Chicago trains were discontinued, it didn't make sense to continue with two color schemes, and to economize, the red and gray passenger scheme was slowly converted to black and gold. |
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