The Fort Wayne Railfan

CSX Q010-21 went on the ground around 11am 7/21/21 near mp 122 fair amount of damage railroad personal were unharmed Hulcher onsite 5:30

Caught that at mp 347 Melburn Ohio at about 3:27

rrnut282 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:25 pm

So you were able to chase it?

From Archbold OH to Waterloo IN, it sat at Butler for over and hour and was making terrible time coming from Archbold.. lighting was not so good with all the storms and clouds but was able to get a couple keepers

23K came through yesterday being led by UP No. 1982 the Missouri Pacific heritage unit

Coming home last night on US24 I happen to catch the ND&W all the way to the east end of their trackage getting ready for the runaround to head west to switch two loads of tomato paste at Cloverleaf Storage in Napoleon Ohio with former Santa Fe GP20u No. 3001 and not running backwards as I normally ...

The portion of the ND&W (former Wabash 5th District) is about to get the long awaited makeover as the trees have been peeled back and the materials are being staged in Defiance for the long awaited rebuild of a portion west of Defiance, also caught a eastbound just east of Jewell with 10 boxcars of ...

If enough of you are interested in doing a meet at the former NYC Depot in Waterloo I'm willing to make and pay for the arrangements and flip for the food, I'm open to do this January or February.. Invite is open to anyone that is on this board. Any Interest ? Six years ago I floated this question....

D.L. wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:39 pm

Who took these pix, they are great!

John Bjorklund

To know what the Erie was and to see the remains today makes hard to understand how it could happen that a railroad folds up and pulls the plug

I've heard ramblings that NKP No. 587 has a new Owner, anyone know anything of what's going on ? I had wished that it ended up here with NKP 765. The ITM seemed to had it's fair share of troubles and too bad 587 was in the middle of it...

If you're patient enough, everything eventually shows up. Thank you for sharing that, wonder if that's 1913, when there was massive flooding. A Pennsylvania Railroad six-wheeler posts outside the station along with it's crew and an assortment of interested spectators. The picture was taken during t...

21Z on the NS Chicago Line mp 391 Wawaka Indiana 2/7/21

Wayne Gest wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:58 pm

The NKP depot at Portland was destroyed in a derailment in 1962.

I've never seen a picture of the GR&I depot that surely was in Portland somewhere.

Here is the Portland GR&I Depot

Looks Sharp, If only a caboose could talk !

Hard to believe the importance of coal.. it came and it went.. Same can be said about the railroads too