Industrial History

These are notes that I am writing to help me learn our industrial history. They are my best understanding, but that does not mean they are a correct understanding.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

NS's 47th Street Yard Intermodal Yard

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Railyards: ( Satellite ) Houses: ( Satellite ) Between 47th street and 55th street, there were two yards between the Chicago and Western Ind...

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

C&WI: Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Overview

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(Update so that I can easily find this factoid: the five owners of the C&WI were C&EI, GTW, Wabash, Erie, and Monon.) ( American-R...

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Monday, March 30, 2015

First Generation Road Diesel Frames

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Craigslist These Craigslist pictures were shared on Facebook's Abandoned Rails Group. The FP7 carcus was being offered for free. The...

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Top 10 Railroad Innovations of the 20th Century

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More innovations The November, 2014 issue of Trains has an article excerpted from Chapter 12 of the 506-page book American Railroads: Decl...

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

MoW: Track Ballast Tamper and Stoneblower

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(Update: near the end of a time-lapse video shows a tamper and ballast regulator along with a ballast dump train after the installation of ...

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Dennis DeBruler: The caption of any image that is not mine will indicate the source. My images are © 2014-20, and are licensed by CC BY, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Attribution: Dennis DeBruler. Since I hit the 1200 byte limit, I have moved my real introduction to http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2014/05/introduction.html.

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