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Photo day—track speed through Nappanee
It’s a warm summer afternoon as B&O #6058 and CSXT #8253 hustle a westbound merchandise train past the depot at Nappanee, Indiana on the former-Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Pittsburgh-Chicago line on 09 August 1990. B&O #6085 is a GP40-2, built […]
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My ride on the (Indiana) Hi-Rail (Part 2)
Last time, I described my first few weeks of employment with the Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation (IHRC), and my initiation at Connersville, Indiana. I had been hired to work in the railroad’s Defiance, Ohio office, but a delay in completing the […]
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My ride on the (Indiana) Hi-Rail (Part 1)
Our professional working lives on the railroad all have their starting points. Mine was in Connersville, Indiana. Having graduated from the University of Michigan in May 1989, I continued to work at the university hospital, where I’d been working […]