The city is at the junction of several rail lines. The Monon Railroad (The Hoosier and the Tippecanoe Chicago-Indianapolis trains), New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate) (The Blue Arrow and the Blue Dart St. Louis-Cleveland trains) and the Pennsylvania Railroad (The Kentuckian [Chicago-Indianapolis] and South Wind [Chicago-Miami/Tampa/St. Petersburg] trains) ran passenger trains through the city.Pennsylvania Railroad timetable, July 26, 1964, Tables 1, 13 http://streamlinermemories.info/PRR/PRR7-64TT.pdf Successor railroads such as CSX and Norfolk Southern have the tracks or right of ways of the routes today.
