mp 126: Indiana's most popular shortline railroad, the Indiana Northeastern with a loaded grain train headed to the NS Yard in Montpelier Ohio for interchange
mp 126: It could have been worse.. Maumee & Western attepting to take a gondola to Liberty Ohio for unloading, when the rail rolled while the train was passing over, makes for a long day!
mp 126: Nickel Plate Road SD9 No. 358 making a shakedown run on the Indiana Northeastern Railroad this morning during a springtime rain shower.
mp 126: It Must be Thursday
mp 126: Cleveland Union Terminal No. 5903 kitbashed and is now Indiana Northeastern GP9H No. 5903 making a shakedown run before being painted into the NKP inspired paint scheme that all the Indiana Northeastern power wears
mp 126: Everything in this photo is gone except for the tracks, NS No. 3424 is now Rapid City Pierre & Eastern No. 3445, BTW NS GP40-2 No. 3038 trailing, the bridge has been replaced and the tri-lights went away when PTC came to the NS Chicago Line
mp 126: Maumee & Western Yard in Defiance Ohio
mp 126: Hillsdale Michigan and the yard tracks and shop for the Indiana Northeastern, No. 1603 sat for years before being shopped by the IN coming back as IN No. 5903 and No. 2185 as it looked before being painted into the IN scheme
mp 126: Wheeling & Lake Erie No. 3068 showed up at the yard at Garrett Indiana, the only time that I ever saw the W&LE power this far west
mp 126: Eastbound coal headed to Detroit Edison on the NS Chicago Line in Brimfield Indiana
mp 126: Pleasant Lake Indiana on the Indiana Northeastern Railroad and now the operating base for Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society for Nickel Plate Road No. 765
mp 126: Another grain train headed to South Milford Grain for load out
mp 126: 1st 1602 "City of Hillsdale", GP7, was built by EMD in August 1952, 16905, as Reading 606, Class RS-3. It was leased as StJ&LC 606 and leased as Delaware & Hudson 2602 in January 1977
mp 126: The 1st couple weeks after the Pioneer startup and before their power arrived the ND&W used NS power to move.. well sometimes the cars did not want to move.. The line was plagued with derailment initially. Photo here dated 1/14/13 and i'm standing on the
mp 126: Indiana Northeastern with an empty grain train for load out at South Milford Grain in South Milford Indiana
mp 126: ND&W crossing the Maumee River in Defiance Ohio on the former Wabash 5th District
mp 126: Grain train being loaded on the Indiana Northeastern at South Milford Grain in South Milford Indiana
mp 126: Indiana Northeastern Nos. 1073 & 1601 await their next assignment back when the IN kept its power at the former N&W engine shed in the Yard at Montpelier Ohio
mp 126: Eastbound pigs on the NS Chicago Line at CP379 Kendallville Indiana
mp 126: This is where the NYCRR Fort Wayne & Jackson crossed the Wabash's 4th District at Steubenville Indiana and the Indiana Northeastern is putting together a train for the trip to the NS Yard in Montpelier OH and my 1st pictures using my Sony camera
mp 126: Southbound grain train passing the long dormant passenger station at Montgomery MI, on the Indiana Northeastern Railroad
mp 126: Grain trains on the Indiana Northeastern and the reason that the IN was formed, a quartet of EMD power moving another unit train for interchange with NS in Montpelier Ohio on the NS Automotive Artery
mp 126: Another slow trip on the Maumee & Western with a rolled rail near Okolona Ohio
mp 126: CSX SD50 No. 8648 Garrett Indiana
mp 126: The dead line in Hillsdale Michigan on the Indiana Northeastern
mp 126: East Wayne Yard in Fort Wayne Indiana and still a holdout for high hoods on the NS, this pair was switching out the cement plant on Fort Wayne's northside on the former Grand Rapids and Indiana
mp 126: Indiana Northeastern GP10 No. 1073 is a Paducah rebuild ex-IBCX 1073/GWRX 1073/MSRC 1073/GMSR 8167/IC 8167/IC 9167 and is stored OOS and will likely never be returned to service
mp 126: A Southern locomotive pulling a Southern boxcar!
mp 126: Deshler the Crossroads of the Baltimore & Ohio
mp 126: Cowl units running of some of their last miles, this train is on the CSX Garrett Subdivision near Auburn Indiana