The Fort Wayne Railfan

Central Kansas Railway No. 701 CKRY 701, blt 12/50 as ATSF 2652, GP7u now resides in Tiffin Ohio on the Northern Ohio & Western Railway (NOW) operates over 25 miles of trackage southeast of Toledo, extending from Woodville to Tiffin, Ohio

Keep an open eye for 2 SD50S that are out on the CF&E I&O 5016 and 5017 have been floating around.

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I miss Big Blue ! the leader NS 3398 SD40 is a favorite model.

For the amount of traffic that goes to Decatur I was surprised to see how tired the track looks..

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Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:42 pm

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

June 20th at 10:18am

Eastbound and packed with NS Executives at CP379 Kendallville IN on the NS Chicago Line

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 ?