Plainville, Ind. Never was a town more aptly named. It was on state Highway 57 and had nearly 500 souls in 1955. It had Charles England’s Machine Shop and was home to my grandfather Frank Morgan’s Plainville Mill and Elevator. For miles around, the grain elevator was farmers’ last stop for their corn, soybeans and wheat for the flour mill.

What made Plainville different from nearby, smaller towns was the railroad. While it wasn’t a major line, it carried grain in excess of what the storage silos at the Plainville elevator could hold north to Terra Haute or south to Evansville and beyond.

There were both express and local trains, but both carried only freight, no passengers. The expresses flew through town while the local trains veered onto a short spur to pick up boxcars filled with grai

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