The Fort Wayne Railfan

Hah wait until you see some of the OFF THE WALL names they used for the Huntington and Chicago district. Apparently the guy in question saw things like East North Findlay and West North Findlay. Or East and West South Whitley. Then noticed you had in places THREE names shared. Ether with the lap si...

For those of us not in th eknow, what constitutes "Southern Railway practice?" Giving control points names that don't mean anything? No, not having East and West stations sharing the same name is SRR practice. The name picking process is HUGEly political. Many of the early ones were named after peo...

In a related note, the signals at NE at New Haven now have nice little signs that say CP NE. It's the first time I EVER recall there being signs out there. On a strange note, the new signs are Conrail blue with the old Conrail font. Kind of hilarious for a NKP/WAB junction. Does Altoona have a syste...

For those of us not in th eknow, what constitutes "Southern Railway practice?" Giving control points names that don't mean anything?

Hey, why use a simple descriptive name when you can use a meaningless one that can easily be confused? After all these years, I STILL can't remember which CP is Sand and which one is Hill. I am slowing coming to the conclusion that Norfolk Southern as a company is slowly losing it's mind.

I FINALLY got the N&W Heritage unit last week. 18 down, two to go.........

There is a new one on the ground at Junction awaiting installation too. Curiously, NS has had a couple of what appear to be brand new signals of the older type in storage at East Wayne. One wonders if these won't eventually go to scrap without ever being installed. I guess they could be used in a no...

Sadly, I was too young to appreciate or truly understand what was happening, and not really in a position to document it. By the time I got serious about it, most of the fun was already over.

Variety is the spice of life. In an era of only seven class one railroads, and basically two locomotive models, is it any wonder some of us get so excited about Heritage units, leasers, crappy looking short line power and oddball rebuilds?

6/6/10 Old Maumee Road. I believe this was the very last time I ever saw TWO Conrail painted units on the same train.

They definitely don't set any speed records on that line, but I'm only aware of one derailment during the CF&E's tenure, so it's probably better than it looks.

5/10/2013. A northbound CF&E Decatur local slowly creeps through the woods near I 469.

I saw one of these trains the other day, and photographed it at Nuttman Avenue, but left before the end of the train. I never gave it a thought that it might have DPUs on it. DANG.

I believe "Hump" is the control point where the Union Belt meets the Piqua Yard trackage on the east side of the yard tower. The two CF&E engines are actually sitting on another track behind that one. As far as I know, Piqua was never anything but a glorified flat switching yard where cars COULD be ...