The Fort Wayne Railfan

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...

More DPU on the NCD: This past week, I've seen several versions of train 702 running South out of the fort. (I assume it is coming in from Chicago) It is a LOADED coal train with up to 137 cars. So far, only BNSF power on this train and 2x2 with the DPUs on the tail. One day, they stopped the train ...

Missed it by 3 hours.

In all my years of railfanning, I have only been able to witness a SD80MAC in Allen County on two occasions, and the first time BOTH of my camera batteries were dead! This is the second time, taken in March, and though the conditions and location didn't make for very good photos, I'm still thrilled...

What day was this? I was out along portions of the waterlevel route Thursday.

There is little mass in the antenna compared to the signal mast and heads. A plane would suffer minor damage after contacting an antenna. Many years ago, it was a taller, but still not full-sized signal mast.

Last I knew crews can go from Peru to Elkhart, Detroit, or Toledo Eastbound and Decatur Westbound. Trains terminating or getting on/off the ex Wabash will have a crew from Peru or Detroit take a cab the rest of the way they aren't on a train. FWA-Bellevue was its own crew district. FWA-Chicago is a ...

I've always been disappointed when reading a book on something local and seeing little local. That seems to be the norm with few exceptions.

Hopefully, the railroad gets a good share of that, but I'm not optimistic. Those are truckable quantities.

Bob Durnell wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:30 pm

... it appears to me that the extended Hadley Siding will stop a little short of East Dunfee.

About how short? It would make little sense to have a short stretch of single main, depending upon that length and geological obstacles.

HB Since the traction lines did things a little differently, I can see them handling it many different ways. Some had "LCL" cars (like a baggage car) for parcels and freight. They could be parked at a station so the consignee can come and get it similar to a freight house on a steam line. For good c...

I'm thinking something along the lines of a Chicago-Rubber-Tired-Transfer between railroads took place here as well. Back the wagon up to the dock. Load wagon. Pull ahead. Back into other dock. Unload. :roll: Did the traction roads commonly have sidings with dock access at their customer's end loca...

I'm thinking something along the lines of a Chicago-Rubber-Tired-Transfer between railroads took place here as well. Back the wagon up to the dock. Load wagon. Pull ahead. Back into other dock. Unload.

p.s. I worked for years at Pearl/Harrison. Interesting to see prior ownership.

That unit was leading a grain train Monday NB on the NCD toward Muncie.