New Haven, IN: NKP East Wayne Yard and Backshops

Yard: (Satellite)
Turntable: (Satellite)
Coaling Tower: (Satellite, it is now gone without a trace of the foundation)

Backshops: (Satellite)

Jim Pearson Photography posted
Norfolk Southern 1160 leads a northbound freight as it crosses over the diamond at the NS East Wayne Yard on the NS Huntington District on September 24th, 2022, at New Haven, Indiana. The train would eventually set out cars at the East Wayne Yard before continuing their trip north toward Detroit, Michigan.
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[The train is on the former Wabash mainline. It is crossing the former NKP mainline.]
Christopher Allen Howe: As a native New Haven resident, I can expand upon what you see in the photo. Off to the left is the remains of the old Erie Haven Cement plant, and in the upper left is Del-Mart plaza. The road running across both mains is Hartzell Road and the road running back to the yard is Nelson Road. Almet steel is off to the right of the photo and in the upper right is Central States grain elevator. What really caught my attention is what appears to be an old diamond in the woods in the bottom middle of the photo. It's close to where the original crossing of NE used to be located.
Jason Cook: Christopher Allen Howe - Central States sold out to ADM last year. I was shocked the first time I saw the ADM logo on the side of the building.

Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted three photos with the comment: "Original photographs by Onerio L. Sabetto that was taken on May 25, 1958 (developed June 1958) of NKP Nickel Plate Road S1 & S2 Lima (1943/44) in New Haven, Indiana."
Nancy Parker average 30 trains a day thru New Haven.
Ruthie Rhodes Snyder No wonder crossings held up traffic so often, back when!!! Not that much, now.
Nancy Parker use the bridge if in a hurry, that is the average now, with 2 tracks.

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The oldest historical aerial I can find is 1951 because Indiana charges to see their 1938 aerials. That photo shows the same rectangle building we see today with a fanout of tracks into the building from the turntable. The fanout of tracks is now a parking lot, but the building still stands. I can tell by the skylights that this building also existed in 1951. This building also existed in 1951. Those three buildings also existed in a 1962 aerial photo that has a good image of the coaling tower. Those buildings allowed me to determine the location of the coaling tower in today's satellite image. It appears that the track fanout and tower were removed between 1981 and 1998.

NS still uses the buildings for their mechanical department. And they must still have at least one local train that switches industries because a caboose has been converted to a shoving platform.

Tman22face_a, Oct 2019

I knew the Fort Wayne Historical Society stored their NKP 765 steam locomotive at New Haven. But I see they have their own facility in an industrial park east of New Haven.

Satellite

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[The design of their web site is incredibly bad. I poked around it trying to find information on their steam locomotive. Fortunately, Google found this page about the locomotive. I'm also disappointed that I had to use Google instead of their homepage to find their Headwaters Junction page, which is what they want to build and to which they want to move this locomotive.]

Viral Media posted

NS Shops at East Wayne Terminal

Fort Wayne is a part of Norfolk Southern’s Lake Division, which includes Indiana and Ohio and lines that reach into Michigan and Kentucky.  The East Wayne Yard contains a locomotive service area (called the roundhouse or pit), crew facilities, as well as a turntable that is still used. There is also a Freight Car Maintenance facility that repairs about 350 cars a month.

Christopher Allen Howe: The big brick building was built by the NKP in 1951 and served as a roundhouse until NS converted it into division and dispatching offices in the late 80s. The diesel pit behind it(the black covered building behind the big brick one)still does light service to power there at East Wayne. The smaller brick building to the right of the diesel pit is the yard office. Looking further west(the photo was taken looking west as this yard runs west to east), the next brick building you see is the maintainer office and then behind the large building with the white roof is the car shop which was built in the early to mid 90s. To your left, out of photo, if you went a half mile as the crow flies you'd see my childhood home in New Haven which is one reason I know so much about this yard.

Tim Shanahan shared

Justin Gillespie: Not a big yard, but a very busy yard.