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The Indiana Rail Road (reporting mark INRD) is a United States Class II railroad, originally operating over former Illinois Central Railroad trackage from Newton, Illinois, to Indianapolis, Indiana, a distance of 155 miles (249 km).
The Indiana Railway Museum was founded in 1961 in the Decatur County town of Westport with one locomotive and three passenger cars. The museum relocated to Greensburg and then in 1978 to French Lick after the Southern Railway deeded a total of sixteen miles of right of way stretching from West Baden, Indiana, approximately one mile north of French Lick, to a small village named Dubois, to the ...
Indiana Northeastern general manager, Troy Strane told Trains Magazine he believed one of the new six-axle locomotives could do the work equal to two or three of the railroad's four-axle locomotives. [26] Indiana Northeastern GP7u number 2216 a rebuilt EMD GP7 and GP7 1602 await their next assignment at the Edon Farmers CO-OP in Edon, Ohio
Whitewater Canal with railroad and train visible near Metamora, Indiana. The Whitewater River formed a natural trade route for Native Americans and for early settlers. In 1836 the new state of Indiana approved funds to build the Whitewater Canal, following the river from Lawrenceburg, Indiana, all the way to Hagerstown, Indiana, 76 miles (122 km).
Northern Indiana Railroad: NYC: 1837 1855 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad: Ohio Railway: NKP: 1879 1880 New York, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: NKP: 1880 1880 New York, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio and Indiana Railroad: PRR: 1851 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
The Squaw Creek Southern Railroad (reporting mark SCS) is a Class III railroad subsidiary of Respondek Railroad operating in the southern portion of the State of Indiana.
The earliest predecessor of the Central of Indiana is the Lawrenceburg & Indianapolis, chartered in 1832 to connect those cities by way of Greensburg and Shelbyville. [5] One and a quarter miles (2.01 km) of wooden rails were laid by July 1834, making this horse powered track the first railroad in Indiana. [6]
The Indiana Southern began operations with a fleet of 10 ex-CSX EMD GP40 locomotives which were rebuilt without dynamic brakes and identified as GP40-1s. As of 2018, the ISRR operated 10 ex-BNSF EMD SD40-2 locomotives acquired from First Union Railway Equipment in 2013 after the railroad became Genesee & Wyoming property.