Welcome to the Indiana Transportation History Blog.

This blog was started by Richard McClelland Simpson III and he was the primary contributor until he passed away January 22, 2021.

This blog will carry on without Richard as new contributors start posting entries to the blog with the same research and thoroughness that Richard excelled at with each and every blog post.

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Blog Changes…

With the passing of Richard, Myself and Jim Grey are taking over the Indiana Transportation History Blog. In the last week or so I’ve been playing with WordPress to figure out how to make the blog easier to find things like old posts and such, because Richard previously had all of his blogs loading into…

by Paula Simpson

Marion County Road Names, 1905, Part 1

One of my favorite things to do, if you haven’t guessed, is to look at old maps. One of my interests, especially, is to look at names that are printed on those maps, especially for roads. Seeing how long those road names have been on maps is interesting to me. Since I live in Marion…

by Richard M. Simpson, III

Fort Wayne And Southern Railroad

When one looks at a railroad map of Indiana, especially ones like one of my favorites for this subject like this from 1898 (Railroad map of Indiana. | Library of Congress (loc.gov)), it is easy to see that the numerous railroad companies sprang up independently to connect the towns of Indiana. Unfortunately, the truth is…

by Richard M. Simpson, III

Railroads of Indiana, 1850

One of the beautiful things of the internet, one of the things that make doing something like the Indiana Transportation History blog so easy, is the access to a world of information. Yes, some is accurate, and some isn’t. But my favorite resources, as I have shown over the past almost two years, is maps.…

by Richard M. Simpson, III

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