Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1948 — Page 42

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Times Picture’ Story by Henry E. Glesing Jr. vs Ee , a THE INDIANA State Farm and Putnamville Railroad never will declare a dividend to stockholders, but it's a paying proposition just the same. One of the shortest rail lines in the world, it hauls the produce of the State Farm three miles over hill and dale to the depot of “Putnamviliie; and returns with a load ‘of raw materials for prisoners to work on. Built by prison labor in 1918, the railroad has two miles of

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three-mile straightaway between the farm and Putnamuville. It picks up coal, cans, fertilizer, mill feed and farm supplies from the depot. Then it hauls bricks ~ the

and stone the prisoners crush on the return trip.

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Since the first train: high-

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12,160 carloads of freight have

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switch track in-addition to its |

prisoners | make, food the prisoners can |

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The engine now in" use was purchased second hand two years ago from Ayrshire Col-

cern. in Indiana, at a cost of $115. Operated entirely by inmates of the farm, the four-man train crew: consists of an engineer, a fireman and two brakemen.

Prisoner W. H. Wolfe is-en ~

He is due for release and the ISF&P will have to find a new one.

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