This was my first trip to Deshler Ohio, I wasn't disappointed, had three trains from three different directions as I got out of my vehicle. I didn't plan on taking the cameras originally, too overcast, but ended up taking them anyway, glad I did. This is a few still shots, and videos of the trains I seen, all within an hour or so of being there, it was interesting, lot of history there in the various buildings close by as well.
November 14th, last race of the 09' season, Muncie Dragway. Compilation of RPM's Vettes. RPM Transmissions 12690 West CR 550 S. Daleville, IN 47334
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This is various clips from Muncie Dragway's final race of the season, two Saturday's in a row with temps in the 60's, couldn't ask for more then that in Mid Nov.. Again this week with other tracks shut down for the season, there was a large number of cars here, including many late models, RPM Transmissions had there Corvettes again, they are trying to get one of there Vettes in the 8 second bracket, 9.14 was close. Lingenfelter's (LPE) was down here from Decatur, "Revenge GTO" running low ...
#9888 Leads #9004 pulling mixed freight, North about 45 mph, on the Norfolk Southern's Huntington District, 2nd train, stack-train is led by #7508 ( ES 40 DC) with #2630 (SD 70) heading Southwest, traveling 37 mph, both filmed at Andrews Indiana, on November 12th, 2009.
One of the last races of the season at Muncie Dragway, most other tracks shut down already, needless to say, there were many cars here. The Dodge Diesel truck ran a 148 MPH 1/4, overheard someone saying that was a record for a 4wd, it was quite impressive. The next car up was Joe Chrisman's Pro-Mod, with a blown Keith Black Hemi, probably close to 2500 HP, although they were just tuning this, still the power is awesome coming out of those Hemi's, in the burnout box alone. They had numerous ...
Tags: Drag racing Muncie Indiana
A couple hours in Butler Indiana, Nov. 5th, 2009, quite a bit of action for the couple of hours I was there. First off a NS (-9 & GP60) general freight, passes a North/East bound CP #8735 ( ES44AC) stacktrain in front of me. Next a BNSF (C44-9) led with a NS (SD-70) general freight, then a NS (-9) with UP (SD-70) general freight heading East, then a short time later a Conrail (-8) lead , with a NS (SD70) pulling tank and hopper cars, shortly after that, a NS pair an SD60 and a Dash 9 pulling ...
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These are various photos of the former Erie Lackawanna Railroad through Decatur Indiana. Some of the photos are the current condition of the ROW itself, much of it on the Indiana side has been converted back to farmground. I also included in the the portion of track from Glenmore Ohio, to Ohio City, talk about a "Ghost Junction", Ohio City is it, sure too bad. This also includes photos I recently found on the net of the Erie Western Railway, in and around the Decatur area.The Erie Western ...
Tags: Erie Lackawanna and Western Railroads
Norfolk Southern, GP-40-2, #3317, pulling 9 empty flatbeds Southwest out of Andrews Indiana, Huntington District, 51 mph.
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Erie Lackawanna former railway, Preble-Decatur Indiana, also Wren, Glenmore, & Ohio City Ohio track right-away. Not much is left on the Indiana side. I like using the Google Earth program, you can still tell even if no tree-lines left, the dis-coloration of soil in most cases. A lot of the areas West of Decatur all the way to Kingsland where it crossed what is now Norfolk Southern, (New Castle District) has now been converted back to farm ground. I grew up West of Decatur, in fact in the ...
Tags: Erie Lackawanna
Wabash Central Railroad, Bluffton Indiana. This short-line local service railway runs from VanBuren to Craigville Indiana, office is in Bluffton Indiana. This crosses Norfolk Southern's New Castle District Line in Bluffton. This is the former Nickle Plate Railroad, then Indiana Hi-Rail, this ends just East of Craigville, half mile or so. It used to run past Craigville to Peterson, then to Decatur, Pleasant Mills, and on into Ohio, first Willshire then crossed the Erie Lackawanna at Ohio City ...
