The Fort Wayne Railfan

The attached 1957 track map shows where the track was abandoned west of Busco.

Someone asked when the track was removed. Columbia City-Churubusco was removed in or after 1961, and Churubusco-Auburn Jct. in the 1973-1976 timeframe.

Craig

My apology. The CR-850 photo was 3 years after abandonment of C City-Busco.

I need to stop posting stuff.

The highway crossing was built and abandoned it at nearly the same time. That means PB&W (PRR) paid for the grade crossing removal? This photo is looking north on CR-850W on the west side of Churubusco in the year that the C City-Busco track was abandoned. The stop sign is at SR-205. The NAPA store ...

Columbia City-Churubusco was abandoned in 1961, 7.81 miles, MP 57.19-65.0, from .10-mile east of present-day US-30 at Columbia City, to .40-mile west of CR-850E at Churubusco. It was part of PRR subsidiary Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad. I don’t know why the endpoints were out in nowh...

The first photo shows eastbound PRR 2-8-0 #1648 alongside Snyder Grain in Churubusco in 1947. The 1957 photo was looking west from Main St. / US-33. In the c.1975 photo, taken 2 years after abandonment of the line through Busco, dirt Mulberry St. crosses left-right in front of the granary. The 2016 ...

Too bad. It's an impressive structure. Put a house on top.

Craig

Another view.

Craig

It's PRR southbound on the GR&I crossing the NYC Air Line at UK Tower in Kendallville?

Craig

Yes, it's the line from Ft. Wayne to Garrett, where it split into lines to Kendallville and Waterloo. The line was sold to new owners in 1913, and they photographed all track-highway crossings later that year. I found the photos in various places over the years; three recently, including this one. S...

This is looking north on Lima Rd. at Geller Ditch, just north of Irene Byron, in late-1913. The road was raised sometime later, putting the track in a dip where automobiles bottomed their suspensions. This track was in service until May 1945 and taken up later that summer.

Craig

What do the terms Mother and Slug mean?

Craig

NKP 2-8-4 class S-2 no. 769 and B-B class ARS-18a no. 560 in New Haven in January 1961.

No. 769 had one year left: it was built by Lima in Sept. 1944 and scrapped in Jan. 1962. No. 560 was an 1800 HP built by ALCO in early-1956, model DL-701/RS-11.

Photo by Jim McKay.

Craig

I will make the T&C presentation at Auburn's temporary Eckhart Library: June 9, 2:00 p.m. 1029 W. 7th St., Auburn. Free. The attached photo was taken on today's CR-327 south of Garrett, north of CR-64 (the Indian Springs Campground Rd.). We are looking south. On the right near the mailbox is a hump ...

When the Toledo & Chicago Interurban was reorganized in 1913, its successor, Ft. Wayne & Northwestern, photographed the rail/highway crossings. The attached photo is looking east on Coliseum across Lima Rd.

Not quite seven lanes in each direction.

Craig

A few photos inside the engine house on the west side of Hudson. IN has 10 locomotives. Most or all of the B-B units were at Hudson, and C-C at Montpelier.

Craig