Crawfordsville Station

[Huelsy]

Attached are pictures of the new platform at Crawfordsville along with the current "station". Will a new structure be built to accompany the new platform?

 

[cheerose]

Family on my father's side were farmers in Waynetown

 

[IndyLions]

Attached are pictures of the new platform at Crawfordsville along with the current "station". Will a new structure be built to accompany the new platform?

I wish I knew. That structure is pretty much rusted out. When I was there a month or so ago, it also seemed to be at the wrong elevation as well (way lower than the new platform). You can see that in your 3rd photo.

 

[Huelsy]

I wish I knew. That structure is pretty much rusted out. When I was there a month or so ago, it also seemed to be at the wrong elevation as well (way lower than the new platform). You can see that in your 3rd photo.

The windows were removed from the shelter.

 

[neroden]

Attached are pictures of the new platform at Crawfordsville along with the current "station". Will a new structure be built to accompany the new platform?

I don't know, but there are some hints from that platform photo that there may be a canopy over the platform (see those round bases for posts? those have been used as foundations for canopies in other recent platform construction). That might be the planned substitute.

 

[IndyLions]

Works for me. I’ll take a new, well designed canopy over an old rusted Amshack any day - even in winter.

 

[IndyLions]

My wife and I boarded the Cardinal in Crawfordsville Saturday night March 12th. The platform work is about 60% complete, the old Amshack is gone - and they erected an unheated, unenclosed temporary wooden lean-to about 8’ x 4’ in size.

I read in a local newspaper article the project is about $1.45 million in total - and should have been completed about 3 months ago. The article also said the project was being “overseen” by a company out east.

I’m not impressed.

 

[IndyLions]

Well….it’s done. It appears very utilitarian, currently very clean, and very convenient compared with what was there before.

Unfortunately, in this country we don’t have a whole lot of imagination when it comes to making things nice. Functional, yes. Nice… Not so much.

Now compared to the hellhole that is Indianapolis Union Station’s Amtrak and Greyhound “intermodal” facility, it’s the freaking Taj Mahal.

 

[zephyr17]

Well, it's a step up from the pit that is Indy's station anyway.

 

[joelkfla]

Well….it’s done. It appears very utilitarian, currently very clean, and very convenient compared with what was there before.

Unfortunately, in this country we don’t have a whole lot of imagination when it comes to making things nice. Functional, yes. Nice… Not so much.

Now compared to the hellhole that is Indianapolis Union Station’s Amtrak and Greyhound “intermodal” facility, it’s the freaking Taj Mahal.

Looks a lot better from the outside than on the inside. The inside seems to have all the charm of a prison.