Where the sidewalk ends

This is where Lagrange Road and New Lagrange Road come together—almost, since they don’t really meet but instead run parallel on opposite sides of the railroad tracks.

New Lagrange Road follows the old path of the Intraurban Railway that ran to Lagrange, and which stopped running in 1939. A road was put in its place at some point. What we now think of as New Lagrange Road once ended at Lyndon Lane.

1. An old white-painted concrete post with a “9” on it. I suppose it’s mile marker 9. It is old.

2. A turnoff that peters out before it gets to the tracks.

3. Long sidewalk that seems to end at the turnoff.

4. The start of another turnoff, but it’s even more abbreviated (or covered over) than point #2.

5. An asphalt path that seems to follow the same direction as points # 2 and 4.

I looked at #5, and the asphalt path is old, but not really old. It might be on top of something older, but I noted that the rises and dips in #5 correspond to the drives of the parking lot it passes across, telling me that it was laid at the same time. So it might be a coincidence that it lines up with #2 and 4.

Why is this sidewalk here? It can’t get a whole lot of foot traffic. And where did this little drive, #2, go? The sidewalk and turnoff are old, but I don’t know how old. I can’t tell if they are 30 years old, or 80.

Might there once have been a driveway or private road that stretched from Lagrange Road, over both the RR and the Intraurban RR, and onto someone’s property? Or might there once have been a little Intraurban boarding station there?