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The Monon Trail in Indy is a rather nice path, particularly thru Broad Ripple area and the White River bridge.

The Monon was (is) the state railroad.  There is a passion for it that is approached only by the Nickle Plate, in my opinion, but make no mistake the Monon is more popular.

Semaphore signals still provide protection in locations, but those are being replaced between Lafayette and Crawfordsville, perhaps as this is written.  There are a few down by Orleans.

The town of Monon did quite well, with a creek, railroad, and trailer manufacturing company named after it.  Not bad for a small town of about 3000.

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