The Fort Wayne Railfan

That truck can only fill one locomotive and maybe a little in a second. Hope all three weren't thirsty.

Just a WAG: The CP names of Wells, Blackford, Delaware, and Preble are because they are in/near the center of those counties. Market is the name of a street (take your pick) in Kingsland near the old E Kingsland CP. Salamonie is the river a mile or so from the old W Montpelier CP. Going out on a lim...

It seems NS is slowly rolling out new station names for their Control Points. It appears they are eliminating the East XX West XX name for the ends of passing sidings. For example, East and West Kingsland on the New Castle District are now Market and Wells. East and West New Haven siding is now Boyl...

RDCs were definitely round-house-queens, but I was referring to the partial PA nose frankensteined on one end.

Is it just me or is that thing ugly?

If NS were to re-install the siding at Redkey, they would have a very short highway haul for the new windmills there. Next closest would be CSX at Farmland or Winchester. If they had a rail unloading location for the original set of windmills, they might be able to re-use it for this phase.

Nice.

Do you know destination? I see there is brand-new lay-down yard South of Redkey for more windmills.

In theory, yes. In practice, meh. Because it can come East at Claypool or Alexandria, depending upon crew availability and traffic, it would be a large window as to the time it rolls through. Just looking at some of my notes from the last two months, it has rolled through Bluffton at 0630, 0800, 083...

RE: 143 AFAIK, it starts in Elkhart, so if it comes through the fort, it comes South on the Marion District at Goshen. At Claypool, it turns East on the former NKP Chicago District past Hadley Road. It jumps on the connector at HILL to get to the ex PRR. It used to change crews at Thomas Rd or down ...

Anyone else notice truckloads of truck frames heading North on I-69? I wonder if the GM plant is starting to send some via truck since 288 seems to be very erratic lately. (they could be going elsewhere, the inconsistent schedule remains as a deterrent to using rail for a Just In Time manufacturing ...

Did the Fort Wayne Union RR serve West side industries also?

cute

The reason the scanner has been quiet, is they switched channels. They appear to be using 93 (161.355) North of Muncie and the same 22 (160.44) South.

And just like that, the coal train is gone. I haven't seen it in a week now.

Did NS change their policy on calling signals? Radio has been eerily quiet since the beginning of July. Even the local isn't very talkative while switching the ethanol plant.

Ha! you know what they say when you assume. :wink: It's interesting as historically, very little coal has moved on the NCD. I don't know if this is a new train (i.e. won this round of delivery contracts), a temporary re-route from flooding elsewhere, or an experiment to see if DPU can overcome their...