The Fort Wayne Railfan

Can anyone say for sure when the Wabash Passenger station was torn down? I remember it being "up and running" back in the day, and remember seeing the stairway to nowhere years later, but can't actually fill the gap in between. Was there any interim use between the end of passenger service and the w...

. The eastern half of Airport Expressway is a head scratcher too. Lining it up to meet Tillman and not Paulding would have made a LOT more sense, and carry it all the way to 27, not just die on the vine at Fairfield. {**dubious fanfare**} Now you are getting into a realm that I actually know someth...

Well, I guess we are on opposite sides of the coin then. I would be upset if the locals were building 6 lane roads to nowhere with my money. I look at Ferguson Rd where it was 4 laned west of hwy 27 nearly 50 years ago, for no worthwhile reason that I can determine...and still cannot. I've lived in ...

, but then they would have to defend those decisions, and I don't think most want to do that, not that there is any media left in this town to ask an actual tough question that might put somebody on the spot. If you want to defend the cluster**** that is the Bass Road project, take your best shot. ...

Isn't the cement distributor at the end of the line? INDOT and others are still using concrete, so it should be busy.

Honestly, I would have to take your word on that, I'm not sure who their customers are. I just hear their horns occasionally.

i still hear the local going up the old GRI to service the industrial park off Coliseum blvd, Not sure what the frequency is.

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Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:15 am

Anyone that wants to Moderate or change anything feel free to contact me...

A vote of confidence from me to you, I think you do a good job here, and I am grateful that this place has not gone *poof*

I believe that any well-founded premise should be easily defensible. Especially from "unqualified" critics (dumbasses, basically). I've seen several forums where it was incumbent upon the masses to kiss the hand of the "enlightened", and it didn't look like anyone besides the enlightened were enjoyi...

Pictures like this tend to make me so angry with myself. As a youngster I had so many relatives who were old old old. I was so caught up in myself and what my future might hold, that I was totally disinterested in the experiences they had lived through. Of course I wasn't smart enough back then to h...

I also have a vague memory of seeing BNSF pulling a string of roadrailers south from Kansas City, perhaps a picture in a magazine.

Okay, that makes sense. One small nit-pick....didn't they reach Dallas through Meridian Mississippi, not St Louis?

Anyone have thoughts into the decision making process of why Ft Wayne was selected to be the main hub?

WOW ,so would that likely have been wind?

Passenger unit? Those must be the ones that had shackles in them? :mrgreen: I recall when NS first started operating over off Brooklyn Ave...I think you guys call it "New" yard. I was living out west, but my mother was living right across the river from there, and she used to complain endlessly abou...

Incidentally, although it falls outside the realm of railroading, or even Fruehauf, some of you might find it interesting to go over to wikipedia and run searches on "History of Manufactured Gas", "water gas", "producer gas", and "wood gas" for a look at the birth of the gas industry as we know it t...