The Fort Wayne Railfan

This is looking west across the new roundabout at Bass & Hadley Rds. in Ft. Wayne. CSX/CF&E apparently don't intend to replace the second main here.

Note that the crossing gate arms are very long. Cars can't run around them.

Craig

Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2 No. 7011 was at CF&E's engine house Monday evening.

A note on another website says that it was No. 6311 until Dec. 2018, when it was fitted with PTC and renumbered.

Craig

Part 2 covers the last six steam railroads that were built into Allen County, Indiana: Eel River Cincinnati, Richmond & Ft. Wayne Nickel Plate Findlay, Ft. Wayne & Western Lake Erie & Ft. Wayne Ft. Wayne Union A PowerPoint presentation with details and photos, free and open to the public. Stop by an...

LNA&C is a Southern Indiana shortline that runs north 7.7 miles from Corydon to a connection with Norfolk Southern at Corydon Jct. in Harrison County, a few miles west of New Albany and Louisville. It was opened in the 1880s and is still operated today by current owner Lucas Rail Lines as LNA&C in n...

Looking west and east on the FW&J in Polk St. on Ft. Wayne's west side, sometime near 1960.

Craig

No, 60 degree temperature swings in 24 hours would be normal anywhere...

Here's the same view 14 years ago.

It must have been impressive in Pleasant Lake when LS&MS's big gravel pit was in operation.

Craig

Retraction? The 1898 plat of Ashley shows the roundhouse east of the foundations at Carper's, in the woods north of Garfield and Garrison. The long foundation in the photo above is curved, and small pieces of it continued to curve as it went north. It was too long and large to have been the turntabl...

I stopped at Carper Farm Supply on the east side of Grand Ave., south of Indiana Northeastern's tracks. Jim Carper showed me remnants of Wabash's 1893 roundhouse, 350 ft. north of the Garfield/Indiana St. intersection. He said the site is covered by 18 inches of cinders on top of a deep fill of bank...

Photos taken one week apart.

Craig

It was the Chicago Arrow westbound and Detroit Arrow eastbound.

Craig

Are they moved dead or under power? If they were moved dead, are there speed or other restrictions?

Craig

The question is whether LE&W was in the city in 1920. The city gifted 20 acres off the west side of what is now Lawton Park to the Ft. Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw, provided it built its depots and shops on the land. This land is bounded generally by 4th St., Calhoun, the former Girl Scouts land and Cli...

Not all seven of those steam railroads were physically in Ft. Wayne in 1920. Here is the list that served Ft. Wayne in 1920, with the owners and operators: Cincinnati, Richmond & Ft. Wayne, controlled by PRR and operated by GR&I (terminated at Adams Jct., outside Ft. Wayne) Ft. Wayne & Jackson, oper...

These map segments show the GR&I from just north of US-6 to Rush St. It was drawn in 1919 and updated to 1977. I don't have anything further south, or any NYC maps.

Craig

Wayne: I made a Toledo & Chicago Interurban presentation at Dupont library in 2007 or earlier. It snowed a lot that day and the library asked if we should cancel, but we didn't and a lot of people showed up. A woman called me the next day and said she wanted to attend but didn't want to drive in the...