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1910 image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society
Fast train approaching versus no train approaching. What, did you think I was going to play chicken with a freight train out there? They did that sort of thing in 1910. In 2010, we don't, and we also don't get killed by trains as often as they did.
The 1910 photographer was standing east of where Ainsworth Road crossed the tracks — that's the crossing you see in the foreground of the photo. The train looks to be just about to cross State Road 51. Note the milk cans at the left edge of the picture, and the siding behind them. I had to guess where to stand to replicate that photo, since I'm still not sure exactly where the Ainsworth Road crossing was.
My guess that the top image dates to around 1910 is based on the fact that it's from one of several postcards in the Hobart Historical Society's Ainsworth picture file that contain correspondence between Howard Shearer and Elsie Wojahn, and while this particular card is not postmarked, the others are postmarked 1910 (and one 1911). So I'm placing it in the same timeframe. The correspondence on the postcards is not effusive, but I wasn't surprised to learn that Howard and Elsie were later married (on February 12, 1913 per the Indiana Marriage Collection).
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