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City Hall Halloween – Madison, Indiana

Spiders - City Hall Halloween - Madison, Indiana

View of Madison, Indiana’s City Hall Covered in Spiders, in celebration of Halloween. Madison, known for its very large district of historic buildings, is well known for its celebrations of the various holidays and ocassions during the fall, and winter months, including craft fairs, window displays, and parades for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Madison Railroad Incline Cut – Indiana

Madison Railroad Incline Cut - Indiana

This now defunct section of railroad, known as the Madison Railroad Incline Cut, covers a distance of 7,012 feet rising 412 feet in elevation to achieve a grade of 5.89 per cent, the steepest incline of any standard gage, line-haul railroad track in the country. It was part of the first railroad in Indiana, known as the Madison, Indianapolis & Lafayette Railroad (MI&L). The first trip up the Incline Cut occurred in 1841, and was in use up through at least 1942.