The Fort Wayne Railfan

If I'm not mistaken, the track in the above photo ended literally just feet west of the crossing. I used to go that way to my aunt's place at Blue Lake and remember seeing the end of the rails from the crossing.

The crossing in new 30 was built. I distinctly remember crossing it as a child with railroad cars being stored east/north of the crossing. It was only protected with crossbucks.

Bob, you have probably seen pictures of the original NKP depot before the elevation. It was still there after the elevation was built and I assume everything used that building, as before the elevation. Sometime after passenger service ceased, someone torched it and it burned down. I remember when i...

It was California Road back then. I think it wasn't renamed Coliseum until the 70's.

Mike (formerly WP) is the crossing of the former PRR main and the Wabash main. Junction was where the GR&I went north from the PRR main plus the crossing of the NYC/NKP line.

Yesterday on my way home from work (about 4:30 pm), I saw something I had never seen before. There was an east bound train by the highway curve at Swinney Park. What was unusual was it began moving westward. By the time I got to the Jefferson underpass, it was moving at a fairly good clip. It appear...

It kind of looks like the area south of Taylor Street looking north except for the siding coming off the main going south on the east side of the track. All the old Sandborn maps and topo maps that I looked at show no sidings running off to the southeast of the track, only to the northeast in this a...

The top two photos were used in our (Three Rivers RR Heritage) early calendars. One time at a show, a man stopped by our table and said he was that little boy sitting in the grass next to the locomotive. I do not have his name.

Reading this thread, I got to thinking that I have never seen photos of FWM&C trains (or FWJ&S for that matter). Would they have had fancy script or very basic?

The town of Cedar (or what’s left of it) is at CR 7 and SR 205. Could the depot have been there?

"Of course, if we're at West Wayne, that line to the Zoo/Franke Park seems like a bridge too far, unless it only operated between Franke and Cass Street." Maybe. but in the "What if" department: HWJ locates to WW; track replaced to Cass Street/North River area to establish a short ride; FWRHS gains ...

I know one has to break eggs to make an omelet but, geez, that looks like the scrapper got started and broke for lunch!

As Mike said, "You need a track to have a moving steam locomotive exhibit." A short run from the West Wayne site to Cass Street Depot (in the heart of the riverfront) would help tie it all together. I think it is probably a good alternative. Since Pepsi does not want to move, it is unlikely HWJ coul...

Craig, didn't the SJV have a wye to turn the engines at Columbia? Where would that have been located?

"Often wondered how the W&E canal operations might have better prospered had they not been burdened by the extra cost of that unneeded extension." The canal was pretty much doomed from the start with the development of a much better technology I.E. the railroad. The Evansville extension, had it not ...