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  2. Camp Thomas A. Scott - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 41.057495°N 85.096570°W. Camp Thomas A. Scott, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was a Railway Operating Battalion training center for the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1942 to 1944 and a prisoner of war camp during World War II. It was named for Thomas A. Scott, who served as the fourth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from ...

  3. Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern Railroad ( reporting mark CFE) is a short line railroad offering service from Tolleston, Indiana to Crestline, Ohio, United States over the former Fort Wayne Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It began operations in 2004 as a division of the Central Railroad of Indianapolis (CERA), under the overall corporate ...

  4. Porter Subdivision - Wikipedia

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    The Porter Subdivision [2] is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the Chicago, Illinois, area. Formerly a part of the main line of the Michigan Central Railroad, it now connects CSX's former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line and the Chicago Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad from the east with the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad towards ...

  5. Chicago, Ft. Wayne and Eastern Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad; Retrieved from "https: ...

  6. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum - Wikipedia

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    The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in 2020. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose arena located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, near present-day Johnny Appleseed Park. It opened in 1952 with a construction cost of nearly $3 million. The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum was originally designed to seat 8,103 for hockey ...

  7. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    A railfan, particularly one whose enthusiasm appears excessive. They figuratively "foam at the mouth" while railfanning. Flying switch or drop (US) The practice of uncoupling a locomotive from a car in motion and running over a switch, whereupon an employee on the ground lines the switch to divert the car onto an adjacent track.

  8. EMD DD35A - Wikipedia

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    Numbers. 70 – 84. Disposition. All scrapped. The EMD DD35A, also known as the EMD DDA35, was a 5,000 hp (3,730 kW) diesel-electric locomotive of D-D wheel arrangement built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division exclusively for the Union Pacific Railroad. They were a cab -equipped variant of the previous, cabless booster ( B unit) EMD DD35 ...

  9. Wabash and Erie Canal - Wikipedia

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    The Wabash & Erie canal was 4 feet (1.2 m) deep and 100 feet (30 m) wide as this point. Other locks were at First St. and Byron St. The Canal was completed from Fort Wayne to Huntington on July 3, 1835, and from Toledo to Evansville, 459 miles (739 km), in 1854. The Canal preceded the railroad to Huntington by 20 years, spurring early settlement.