The Fort Wayne Railfan

Are they not the ones that took up the track from Wolcottville to South Milford in the first place?

I see there has been recent news about progress on Headwaters Junction, but by the nature of the way the news report was written, I really couldn't make heads or tails about what it really means, except that it appears the final nail has been driven in the coffin of the North River location, which s...

I never got to meet him, but he is certainly a folk hero on the local railroading scene.

All it takes is ONE guy with some actual authority to show up on the job site every day or two and say "Uh, no......... I learned back 28 years ago when I had my house built that even with decent contractors, you have be constantly on guard for mistakes and omissions and MAKE them do work the RIGHT ...

AND, if they do what they did when they widened 14 between Hadley Road and Scott, they let the weeds grow up, and then instead of killing them or digging them up, they just threw sod over top of the weeds. Within a few weeks, those big ole ugly weeds were punching their way through that beautiful ne...

I have no idea what they would charge, but this one was a freebie. Besides towing #2156 From St. Louis and Roanoke and back, towing the museum's DDA40X from St. Louis to Altoona, painting it and returning it to St Louis was part of this deal. I have my doubts you could get anything like that accompl...

I have a great interest in construction work and have been a part of numerous projects my self on a smaller scale, and I NEVER cease to be amazed at the utter lack of urgency to get ANY of these projects done. I get the distinct impression that most of the people involved don't really care or have a...

I think sometimes it's one of those deals where you get so close to something that common sense kind of checks out, and you need some fresh perspective from somebody that isn't all wound up in the minutiae. I also think that far too many of these projects are steered by political will, self interest...

Oh, I remember the last time quite well. My grandparents lived on Kinsmoor, and I was in that neighborhood constantly. I don't think there is that much money left on Rudisill, or even that whole area. Urban rental squalor and crime has been pushing people of means out of that area for quite some tim...

Correct, along Superior street, just west of the old Canal Building, which can be seen in the background of depot picture.

Let this website pass into oblivion. The moderators don't block or erase dumbassdom, and it dominates too many discussions. I posted a note about a local railroad issue, and here are the sophomoric responses it generated: Dumbassdom. I used to contribute prolifically to this website. Seen anything ...

That or the pet project for whoever was the councilman for that district at the time.

I'm sure it didn't hurt, nor did the good connections the Wabash had in town with the Pennsy and the NKP. The fact that for the most part, the Wabash was straight and fast, served a lot of good sized towns and was ideally suited to automotive traffic, (particularly Ford) gave it a leg up. In many w...

I'm sure it didn't hurt, nor did the good connections the Wabash had in town with the Pennsy and the NKP. The fact that for the most part, the Wabash was straight and fast, served a lot of good sized towns and was ideally suited to automotive traffic, (particularly Ford) gave it a leg up. In many wa...

I'm sure that and other limiting factors of the line all contributed. Without being rebuilt from the ground up, there is no way the Cloverleaf could EVER compete with the Wabash as a through route. The NKP made do, because that is what they had to work with. I can't say for sure how much totally is...