The Fort Wayne Railfan

Walt made the presentation to eight people, a rather small group. This was his 3rd or 4th junction presentation, and all have been excellent. His knowledge of junctions and interlockings is exceptional. This presentation was northwest Ohio, from Marion and Bucyrus in the southeast to Toledo in the n...

The build date of this new looking covered hopper is June 1981. It was in a string of TKEN covered hoppers at Warren in March 2018.

TKEN is Tennken Railroad Co., part of the West Tennessee Rail Group. Far from home. Apparently DJJ/Nucor owns the company.

Craig

I didn't know that the Cypress Gulch Railroad operated at Buck Lake Ranch. Was it 2' gauge? Those are mighty big hills for Steuben Co.

Anyone know the history?

Craig

Jan. 20, 2:00 p.m., Baker St. PRR Station, Ft. Wayne. Free and open to the public. Walt Mattes will present another part of his decades-long research into the railroad junctions of the greater Indiana-Ohio-Michigan area, with terrific photos of towers, diamonds, signals and related structures. Craig

It appears that NKP had guard shacks at all downtown crossings in Ft. Wayne. This photo shows one south of Superior & Clinton, and they were at Clay, Calhoun and Harrison as well.

Craig

This photo isn't dated but was taken when work began on the NKP elevation in 1953, looking north on Fulton St. at the Pearl St. intersection, at the NW corner of what is now Henry's.

Craig

It was converted back to RDC-3 M-497 at Beech Grove shops in Indy, and the turbines were made into a snow blower. It was retired in 1976 and scrapped in 1984. After it was returned to service, it could be identified by the steel plates that were welded on the radiator air intakes, visible below, aft...

I forgot to mention that the photo was taken in 1911. Someone made a photo inventory of the town.

Craig

This is looking east at a local freight on the NKP. SY tower is at the junction. The Vandalia (Eel River) depot is at right, and NKP's depot is partly visible in the trees on the right side of the track past the diamond. SR-5 runs left (north) to right (south) behind the tower. Go there and try to f...

This presentation will be at the National Automotive & Truck Museum (NATMUS), behind the ACD Museum on S. Wayne St., Auburn. Sunday, January 27, 2:00 p.m. It's free and open to the public. It has been 52½ years since M-497 set the still-standing rail speed record in the U.S., 183.85 MPH. It actually...

In the media section, open this document and read pages 3 and 4 for the history of the LE&FW: http://www.fwarailfan.net/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4118 Somehow the document was entered about 5 times, but you can find pages 3 and 4. The photo below was looking west on PRR from an Alco PA in 1949. ...

The June 1916 annual report listed 5 boxcars, 8 flatcars and a caboose. The Official Railway Equipment Register of June 1917 said that they were eligible for use in interchange service and provided instructions to route them to home rails at LaGrange or Angola. That year, SJV also had 3 coaches, 1 c...

An undated photo looking southeast at the SJV Ry. in Orland with SJV boxcars #2021 and 2025 , and Kanawha and Michigan coal hopper #5196. Note that the K&M hopper has "and" in the name and not "&". K&M was a West Virginia coal road that was eventually part of LS&MS. Most of the SJV was demolished 10...

The number in an address is not related to whether the property is in a particular community or in a rural area. Meyer Rd. is a perfect example: depending on your location you may be in Ft. Wayne, New Haven or Allen Co., but the numeric addresses are linear as you go down the road. Addresses in rece...

As to GE's land west of the St. Mary's River: Meadow St. and the lots south of Meadow (north of Taylor) were platted 10-14-1891 as Part of Swinney's Outlots in.....(long name). They were originally part of Swinney's Outlot 5. North of Meadow St. was Swinney's Outlot 6, which was not replatted into s...