The Fort Wayne Railfan

The diagram you posted is Kouts, in later years wilders was remoted from Kouts. My attachment is the layout when the CA&S was still there.

I am attaching three pages from the "Nickel Plate Road, Nickel Plate District, Physical Data and Other Information of Interest" booklet dated September 1954. The booklet is an official NKP publication and it may help answer some questions. Page 21 mentions the five stall roundhouse at East Wayne. th...

East End Argos is now Walnut: West End Argos is now Juniper; East End Hibbard is now Redwood; West End Hibbard is now Marshall

Looks more like Canadian Pacific. All it needs is the beaver.

Not sure, but I think the NKP freight house burned in 1968. I have never seen a picture of it before the fire. If anyone has a picture of either freight house I would like to see it posted.

To me it looks like the cars are lettered "National Park Railway". I didn't know Buck Lake Ranch had a railroad either.

Sure looks like one.

hibbard

Just a guess, it may be dolled up before going to the 1949 Railroad Fair in Chicago.
hibbard

912 was built as Clover Leaf #212 (s/n 6244) and was one of a group of five delivered in May 1922. Engine numbers were 211-212 and 214-216, the Clover didn't believe in using the number 13. An interesting tidbit is that Lima accepted six old Rhode Island built 2-6-0s as trade for the down payment. h...

Not being from the Ft. Wayne area, can someone give me an idea where the Bun Bar was or is.
Thanks, hibbard

Note the quasi-snow plow pilot. Some were assigned to each division.

When the 170s were drifting at high speed or slowing for a station stop smoke would lay back around the boiler blocking the view of both enginemen. In 1945 the 177 received the small smoke deflectors shown in the picture, they were unsuccessful. The deflectors were extended forward of the smoke box ...

NKP 157 was a 4-6-0 built for passenger service. This looks like the 457 built in 1913, class N6. The engine was in a head-on collision at Old Fort, Ohio on June 3, 1923. The engine survived to be equipped with ATS for use on the Chicago Division from 1926-1934. 457 made its last run in July 1948 an...

Don't quote me on this, but believe that is a Cole trailing truck that was used on many USRA engines. It didn't become very popular.

hibbard

Yes, the original Norfolk Southern, their early road units were in a similar scheme.
Hibbard