The Fort Wayne Railfan

Yesterday CSX ran a tank train across the Garrett Sub that turned south at Deshler and down the Toledo Sub toward Cincinnati OH,

I always thought that the mast was short at Winters RD because of aircraft... the antenna defeats that reasoning ?

Compression and the track really does look poop.. but looks okay in other places.. See what happens when you build a RR on a swamp ?

Question: Looking for a picture of the Mill that stood in Berlien IN, This photo is of the Berlien Depot and a St Joseph locomotive.

A meet on the Grand Elk at CP16 near White Pigeon MI the Grand Elk is a WATCO Property. Conrail upgraded this former Lake Shore & Michigan Southern/NYC Kalamazoo Branch in the mid 1970's after the PC debacle, and ran Elkhart-Detroit freight traffic over what would became the Kalamazoo Secondary to K...

Continuing our recent GR&I coverage, here is a shot from February as the local enters the switch at West Wayne and prepares to run up the GR&I with some salt hoppers that they just pulled out of the old FW&J line spur. So would this been the southern most part of the Ft. W&J ? A pair of Hi Hoods to...

I noticed in the last week the Crews from Pioneer/ND&W have lifted the remaining rails just north of US24 to a couple miles west of Liberty Center has been pulled and awaiting to be picked up. On a side note Pioneer has merged with Brookhaven Rail Partners and this was announced last week. https://t...

For as much rail activity/history that took place in Fort Wayne i'm befuddled at the lack of record... I did purchase a deck of NKP playing cards today !

May 29, 1958: "Last steam engine-drawn train on the Nickel Plate Railroad in Fort Wayne, Indiana."

Question: What was the number of that Berkshire ?

My question, which seems more likely to you, that the mixed freight spotted in Lewistown continued on thru Fort Wayne (by what routing?)...or that the Pennsylvania freight did terminate at some interim point and the Heritage unit was put back in service in time to make Fort Wayne within 21 hours of...

Today in Williams County history (May 2, 1909, 110 years ago): Eastbound Wabash train No. 6, traveling at about 50 miles per hour, derailed east of Edon about 8 p.m. on May 2, 1909. A turned switch point threw the tender's trucks off the rails, breaking the coupling between the tender and the engine...

Good News for the Indiana Northeastern Railroad.. RES Polyflow Ashley facility will be the first of its kind to take mixed waste single-use plastics and convert them into usable products at commercial scale. The facility will initially convert approximately 100,000 tons of plastics into over 18 mill...

Today in 1952, The last freight delivered by an Indiana Public Service Company freight motor is made to the company's Ft. Wayne power plant by motor 817. Future deliveries will be made by the New York Central.

JW wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:39 pm

Still have all three. JW

There you are ! Are they complete at the bottom ? What line are they off ? You home or down south still ?

Hotbox wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 23, 2019 11:51 am

Maybe they will put in some benches and a $300,000 statue, and designate the Hadley roundabout as a "railfan park".
Considering the train count that goes through there, that seems so "Fort Wayne"

A statue of maybe Harry Baals ?