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    • Wabash Day 2010 - Hendricks County

    Wabash Day 2010 - Hendricks County

    by John Dykstra '13   •   October 11, 2010 Print version Share:

    Wabash alumni gathered at the former Avon B&O (Baltimore to Ohio) Railroad site, which was abandoned after another railroad was laid to cover the same destinations and more, for the third consecutive year in support of Wabash Day. The railroad has been in the process of evolving from a railroad to a recreational trail in the “Rails to Trails” project completed in many parts of the nation.

    The Wabash men picked up trash and some larger items that have gathered over the years along the corridor. Farmers adjacent to the railway have disposed non-decomposable garbage in order to prevent erosion in their fields. The site also contained an abundant amount of rusted railroad equipment.
     
    “When I was approached to get involved with Wabash Day, I looked around and I saw that there was a lot happening with the B&O group,” said Dave Jackson ’87. “I had a lot of interest in what they were doing and trying to help develop this abandoned railroad corridor into a trail in Hendricks County. They are actually starting construction of the trail.
     
    Jim Kerr ’92 assisted Jackson in setting up the project. “Dave and I got together and we ended up finding the B&O Trail Organization. This is our third year in a row of helping them. It’s been kind of cool just seeing what this is going to mean to our community.”
     
    Derick Busenbark ’03 resides near the trail and said it will promote better health practices. “Cleaning-up this trail will help promote people coming out here and using it,” he said. “Health-wise it will be a great benefit.”
     
    Stan Emerson, the final conductor to use the B&O Railway through Brownsburg also praised the transition. “People are becoming more aware by the media, which is making a major focal point on health and wellness,” he said. “This is going to benefit people who ride horses, for example; it’s going to benefit roller bladders; it’s going to benefit hikers; it’s going to benefit people who ride bicycles. And that’s all about health and wellness.”
     
    The trail has been in the process of being paved. Hikers and bikers have already started using the trail.
     
    “It’s one person’s dream that’s now turned into hundreds of people helping and turning these unused railway lines into hopefully a fitness trail someday,” Kerr said.

    "Multiple teams of 17 volunteers from the B&O Trail Association and Wabash College alumni filled an entire roll-away trash dumpster with large items dumped along this abandoned corridor over many years," Jackson reported. "Items collected included 40 tires, household appliances, automotive parts, scrap metal and children’s play sets.  Special thanks to some local Hendricks County businesses who helped with a discounted trash dumpster and with proper tire disposal.  It is gratifying to see the ongoing Wabash – B&O partnership bearing fruit as the trail is truly becoming a reality."

     

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