Carleton, MI: Junction Tower: DT&I vs. C&O/PM

Mark Hinsdale posted

Mark's comment:

Penn Central power fronts a southbound train on the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, as it crosses the C&O's Toledo-Saginaw main line at Carleton MI. This train will move another 20 miles to Diann Tower, where it will use the connection to the Ann Arbor Railroad and follow it to Toledo. July, 1973 photo by Mark Hinsdale.

Doug Hefty Apollo (AP-9). I was working at Carleton at this time and this train usually went through "under cover of darkness." I think I usually had AP-10 northbound as well.

Mark Hinsdale In the CR split, I fought very hard for through use of the Lincoln Secondary on behalf of CSX. I realized there was going to be a need for an exit from Detroit, especially the Conrail side of Detroit, aka Sterling and North Yard, other than having to take everything out to Plymouth and turn south. Of course, the ceonomic malaise that struck Michigan made it, perhaps, less compelling ten years later, but it still has a role to play in CSX operations.

Satellite

Wow, the tower still exists. The north/south route is CSX/(PM+PRR) and the single track route is (CN+IORY)/DT&I. CRSA/PRR branches of towards the east just a couple blocks north of this junction. CRSA stands for Conrail Shared Assets Operation. I wonder if Norfolk Southern ever bothers to use this shared route.

Charles Geletzke Jr. posted
Jessica Kasumi Today, the DT&I is now the Canadian National. The C&O (PM) and PRR lines are now CSX.

Jim Pershing posted

Carleton's 1st depot ablaze; July 12, 1908.

The fire is said to have started from the hot cinders of a passing locomotive landing on the wooden shingled roof.

Ricardo Garcia posted
D T & I in Carleton Michigan. John Bjorklund photo.
David J. Calhoun: Got a freight waiting in the hole. . . .

Charles Geletzke Jr. shared his post
One more shot of the C&O (PM)-DT&I-PRR crossing and tower at Carleton Michigan. This one was taken on July 4, 1971. (C. H. Geletzke, Jr. photo)

Charles Geletzke Jr. posted
The C&O-DT&I tower at Carleton, Michigan on April 7, 1992. (Jack G. Tyson photo)

Marty Bernard posted
GTW GP38-2 5720 built Oct. 1972 as MP 913 at Carleton, MI in Oct. 1993, photo by Karl Miller.

Mark Hinsdale posted
"Dirty Eye"
A southbound Detroit, Toledo & Ironton manifest train is banging across Chessie System's Saginaw to Toledo main line at Carleton, Michigan in December, 1977. Auto parts dominate anything coming out of Detroit, and this train is no exception. DT&I earned several "nicknames" over its existence, one of which was the "Dirty Eye," although I'm not sure what the story behind that one is. A favorite uncle of mine used to call it the "Darned Tired & Independent;" the first word was tamed down a bit because he didn't cuss! Note the yellow "flag" hanging from the tower window. That was a train order indicator for Conrail (ex Penn Central, nee Pennsylvania Railroad) trains utilizing long standing trackage rights over Chessie between Carleton and Alexis, north of Toledo. December, 1977 photo by Mark Hinsdale.
Daniel Gless: Can you imagine the TM's of today trying to figure out the just in time connections to the various plants and railroads that were commonplace back then? MUST MAKE CONNECTIONS were a daily occurrence that were sacrosanct in the industry. Those days are GONE!
Mark Hinsdale shared

Charlie Whipp posted

Friday's Flickr photo....CSX GP40-2 cracks the DT&I (by this date GTW) diamond at Carleton, MI with a northbound freight and a clear order board. It was a hot late June day, the perfect afternoon to hang out at one of my favorite south east Michigan interlockings. We didn't get a lot of trains this afternoon but the ones that we did get were running in the correct direction for photos. 

I just finished scanning a group of photos from Carleton so I thought I'd pick out one of my favs from the group even though it's not Tower Tuesday. 

In the background to the left of the tower is the favorite watering hole for the area, the Carleton Hotel. I'm sure that I set up where I did to included it in the scene. 🙂

The maintainer at the time lived quite a distance from his work base at Carleton so he set his trailer up for living quarters during the week. 6/22/1991

Jason Whipp: Was the order board still a signal they followed or was it just set to clear and left that way?

Charlie Whipp: Jason Whipp The order board was used to tell the crew that they had either a train order(s) or a message to pick up. Clear meant no train orders, yellow meant messages or train orders in the hoop and red meant stop for orders or messages.

Jason Whipp: Charlie Whipp that is crazy. It’s amazing to me that order boards and flimsies lasted in places into the 90’s but then all the sudden everything became electronic. I hate that I missed that era.

Charlie Whipp shared

Doug Hefty posted

PHOTO CREDIT:  Bjorklund Flickr link https://flic.kr/p/QVL1ay

I know, I know -- this is a Penn Central train NOT Chessie!  However, it IS a PC train entering Chessie territory southbound at Carleton.  The date is December 1, 1973, and this is solid auto rack train ML12. PC chose to run this train between Detroit and Toledo via their Lincoln Branch (not called a Secondary at this time) and exercise their trackage rights over C&O between Carleton and Alexis.  Not sure where the train was headed past Toledo.  I was working 3rd trick at Carleton tower at this time, and I do recall seeing this train on at least one occasion.  Believe it was normally a daylight move, and I'm not sure how long this routing lasted.  Looks like the guy on the bike has chosen to stay and watch the train!  Now that I think about it, why wouldn't you?? 😁

Tim Shanahan shared

Craig Hensley Photography posted

The tower in Carleton still stands today, looking over the the diamond where the CSX Saginaw Sub crosses the CN (former DT&I). 

Carleton, MI - June 2025

[Some comments discuss train frequency through this junction.]

Craig Hensley Photography posted

A focused shot on the tower in Carleton, MI along the CSX Saginaw sub. I’m not sure exactly when the tower was shuttered, but it’s definitely been a while. Anyone got any good stories?

Carleton, MI - June 2025

David S. Patch: That tower has been closed since at least 1993 and almost certainly longer. Its appearance is fundamentally unchanged since I moved to the Toledo area in 1993. Within a short time, CSX affixed a "CONDEMNED" notice to it, but it has somehow survived for the ensuing three decades. (Another, more derelict tower at Leipsic, Ohio got a condemnation notice at about the same time and was torn down about a decade ago.)

Tim Shanahan shared

Jardine Bird Sanctuary

I have not forgotten that "Nature" is in the title of this blog. The world's largest water treatment plant was built in Lake Michigan.

Google

If you look at the end of the plant in the road map, you will see two green spots. In the satellite image, the lower spot is labeled Jardine Bird Sanctuary. In fact, both spots are Sanctuaries for migrating birds and birds that need to recover after hitting a skyscraper.

The Jardine Bird Sanctuary was completed in 2001 after the areas were cleared of overgrowth and non-native species. It now consists of more then 400 trees, including ironwood, shingle oak and black cherry, according to the City of Chicago website. (DNAinfo)

Bellevue, OH: 1882+1947 NS/NW/NKP Roundhouse (Remnants) and Coaling Tower

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite)

This yard was the pre-WWII yard. NKP expanded to the east by building the Moorman Yard.

Zachary Neuman posted
H-5s at Bellevue. Mid/late 1950s.
Rick Shilling posted
1950's Nickle Plate Road #936 at Roundhouse and Turntable Bellevue, Ohio

Photography by BT posted
A pair of Norfolk Southern trains depart Bellevue Yard as they pass the former Nickel Plate Road roundhouse. The roof has been removed from the structure and its future is uncertain.
4/13/2016
Richard Stewart shared
Cory John Gibson Quiet the chunk of power on those two trains

Satellite

Again, using Bing as a time machine, it still had its roof about eight years ago. BT has an aerial photo with the roundhouse in the foreground.

Bird's Eye View

Viral Media posted three photos with the comment:

Ex-NKP ROUNDHOUSE

The Nickel Plate roundhouse in Bellevue, Ohio was one of the last built in this country in 1948. The roof had failed and was removed to inspect the building for potential reuse and equipment storage. The structure is still owned by Norfolk Southern, it’s disposition is unknown.

[There are two comments claiming that it needs to be preserved.]

Wayne York: It is an awful location for public access- it is surrounded by live rail.

Horning Patrick: I work in that building it needs to go.

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Zachary Neuman posted
Bellevue roundhouse. Mid/late 1950s.
[The comments indicate the three uncovered stalls are "dead tracks."]

Zachary Newman posted
H-6d Mikado #627 at Bellevue, Pre 1947.
[I rewrote the notes in 2023. This was the third photo when Zachary added his comments.]
Per Zachary's comments: " I've dated as Pre 1947 because this is not the roundhouse that stands today. The roundhouse that is there today was built in 1947. The one pictured was built in 1881/1882. It was the original facility, with what I believe was a 90' turntable. Also, I would estimate that the picture was taken sometime right around 1940, because the locomotive does not have its flying number boards mounted on the smoke box yet."

 

William A. Shaffer posted

New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Switcher #2

Bellevue, OH

Photographer Unknown - Collection of William A. Shaffer)

Zachary Newman posted
Bellevue yard, 1904.

Note the water tower. Evidently coal was loaded into tenders from gondolas using a clam-shell crane. Is the smaller tower behind the water tower a sand tower? There is a man at the base of the tank doing something.

John Moldovan posted
Dan Meyers shared
Richard Shulby Nice postcard! Earlier roundhouse from the derelict one still standing there...
Mike Johnson Trivia - The Bellevue roundhouse was the last roundhouse built in the USA.

Raymond Storey posted
Bellevue Ohio...The B&O
Dan Konkoly Looks like the Nickel Plate
[I checked my 2005 SPV Map and I could not find a B&O track near Bellevue, OH.]

Mad River  & NKP Railroad Museum posted
This photo from our Archival Library shows the Nickel Plate Road’s Bellevue engine terminal and dates from August 11, 1956. Steam still rules the rails evidenced by Berkshires 774, 769 and Mikado 639 receiving attention. 
Edward Bridges: NKP 639 survives today in Bloomington, Illinois!

1901 Bellevue Quadrangle, 1:24,000

Zachary Newman posted
H-6b #612 at Bellevue

Another view of the coaling tower.

The Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society, Inc. posted

On this day 72 years ago in 1949, the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad took delivery of S-3 Class 2-8-4 Berkshire 779. Not only was it the final steam locomotive the railroad ever received but it was also the final steam locomotive built by the legendary Lima Locomotive Works.

Looking well used in this photo the famous engine is being coaled at Bellevue, OH for another run on September 22, 1956. Fortunately, 779 would be preserved and restored cosmetically in the city of its birth at Lincoln Park in Lima, OH.

Preservation of Nickel Plate Road equipment and materials is one of our Society's main functions. To learn more about donating either money or materials to help with our preservation efforts, and to see a full list of preserved locomotives, rolling stock, and structures please visit https://www.nkphts.org/preservation. See less

— in Bellevue, OH.

Adam C Matthews shared

Rick Shilling posted
Undated Nickle Plate Road #765 at Bellevue, Ohio
Roundhouse.
Thomas Wentzel shared

 

EarthExplorer: May 16, 1960 @ 59,360; ARB593608708740

Digitally Zoomed

Duane Thomas posted two photos with the comment: "I was in the Bellevue area today so I stopped and took a couple pictures of the old Nickel Plate Road roundhouse."

Zachary NeumanZachary manages the membership and posts for The Nickel Plate Road Fan Page. More glass is falling in on the west end more recently.
[Some comments discuss that it would be hard to save as a museum because it is in the middle of NS yard activity.]
Jeff White Not saying it's not possible. As it is, the Toledo district slices through museum property.
But inside the grounds of the second largest yard in the country, and the largest yard on NS would be a little more difficult. Again, Not saying it couldn't be done.

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Corey Brown posted two photos with the comment: "Inside view of the NKP/NS Bellevue roundhouse."
Hugh Odom Are they demolishing it or re-roofing it? It was a cool facility.
Corey Brown Hugh Odom Neither just don’t use it
Zachary Neuman Roof started to cave in and was removed I think around 2012.

Brandon Parsons How did you ever get in? Isn't that in the NS yard?
Corey Brown   Brandon Parsons I drove in took them from the windows and got out don’t you worry security was hot on my trail lol. Hope you didn’t mind me inviting you to this page I know you have pics and videos of some Roundhouses.
[And then a lot of comments about trespassing, liability, etc.]

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TeddRick Clark posted two photos with the comment:

Bellevue Ohio, next to an active line but definitely forgotten about

Not my video but interesting to watch

https://youtu.be/X3AgGVfCjf8?si=GudCMGI1Rfdmre1g [I didn't watch it. I don't like the style where you watch the raw footage of someone discovering something. Especially if I have to watch them driving to the place.]

Scott Reynolds: It's the opposite of forgotten about. There are plenty of people there. Watching it over. Very carefully. Should you pretend to be lost and "accidentally " stumble your way to the round house, you'll wonder what happened.

Obviously, something more is there than simply an old round house .

Joel Biallas: When I was in Bellevue for the 765 stop [2021] they were saying that place is on or surrounded by active NS land and therefore cant be reached. that's why the local museum hasn't moved in

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Fort Wayne, IN: NYC Coaling Tower, Turntable, and the Circus Comes to Town

(Update: the freight house has its own notes)

Mike Snow posted

Mike's comment:

Fort Wayne Indiana across the street from the City Power & Light Plant (now Science Central)
6397, 6341 is a USRA type 2-8-2 (H-6 Class on the NYC). For most of the later steam era on the Fort Wayne Branch, older H-5, 2-8-2s were the usual power but some of these USRA types showed up toward the end of steam. (In quantity, the H-5 Mikados were the largest group of engines the NYC had and the very last steam run on the Big Four was an H-5.)
The Mikado type was, in turn, ousted from the top-flight trains by larger freight locomotive wheel arrangements such as the 2-10-2, 2-8-4, 2-10-4 and articulated locomotives, but no successor type became ubiquitous and the "Mike" remained the most common road freight locomotive with most railroads until the end of steam. More than 14,000 were built in the United States, about 9500 of these for North American service, constituting about one-fifth of all locomotives in service there at the time. The heaviest Mikados were the Great Northern’s class O-8, with an axle load of 81,250 pounds.
Almost all North American railroads rostered the type, notable exceptions being the Boston and Maine, the Delaware and Hudson, the Cotton Belt and the Norfolk and Western. The largest users included the New York Central with 715 locomotives, the Baltimore and Ohio with 610, the Pennsylvania Railroad with 579, the Illinois Central with 565, the Milwaukee Road with 500 and the Southern with 435.

Since this yard is the terminus of a NYC branch, it has a smaller coaling tower than the ones we have been seeing over mainline routes.

Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted
Old Power Plant Fort Wayne Indiana probably late 1930's
[Note the NYC yard and freight house on the right.]

Satellite

The yard was north of 4th Street and west of Clinton Street. You can clearly see the "black line" on the satellite image where the mainline went through the yard and then turned to go around Spy Run Creek. The circus used this yard for unloading its train when it visited the city (FortWayneRailroad). The turntable in the yard is visible in a 1951 aerial image. When Fort Wayne Train Stations was written, the NYC Freight House (visible in the lower-right corner of the above 1951 link) was still standing. But the satellite image shows that it has been torn down to make a bigger vacant lot. Evidently they got it torn down before the 2008 recession hit. Whatever the planned development was, it is a shame they did not give some thought as to how to repurpose the building, say as a community center. Once again, I use the Bird's Eye View as a time machine to locate the building.

Bird's Eye View

The History Center posted
[Note the shadow of the coaling tower.]

Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted
1954 - Several hundred people were on hand by 6:30 a.m. August 3, 1954, to watch the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus unload at the New York Central freight yards off Clinton Street. The crowd kept growing, and the children cheered when the car with the elephants finally arrived.
Gay RedwanskiGerbers: Watched them travel down Parnell Ave. headed to the Coliseum.....it was a special event every year.
Kathryn Neddeff: Clinton and Fourth street ! Went to watch many times we couldn’t afford the Circus.

Becky Osbun commented on Tommy's post
"Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus visited the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in September 1977. shows elephants, camels, llamas, and horses, en route to the Coliseum." - ACPL

Fort Wayne, IN: Power Companies

City Utilities plant: screenshot from video from Science Central 

(Update: HAER)

(Skip to the Traction/Spy Run/I&M Plant.)

Fort Wayne used to be served by two power companies: Indiana Michigan and City Utilities. Both used to have power plants in the city. As a kid, I remember driving by I&M's power plant on Spy Run. www.historicaerials.com shows that I&M's power plant still existed in 1962 just north of Elizabeth Street.

I&M closed their plant around the mid 20th century because they used high-tension lines to bring power to the city from AEP's much larger, more efficient power plants. City Utilities kept running their plant a lot longer because it was the only plant they had. I assume they finally sold their customer base to I&M. They used the plant long enough that when they closed it the preservation movement had been invented, and it is now Science Central.

Note in the screenshot that you can see part of the switchyard. It still does its function of distributing power to the city, but now the power comes from a remote location rather than the power plant.

When we moved into our new house in 1958, both I&M and City Utilities had lines running down the back of the yard. Each company served every other house. We had City Utilities. I believe one had an option to change, but we never did. After the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes (and a blog), everyone in the city who had I&M service lost their power because there were so many tornadoes in the area that it took out ALL of the high tension lines that I&M had feeding the city. I believe the number was seven.

Update:

The Hosey Dam was originally built as a hydropower plant.

History Center
City Light and Power Plant, 1950s.
[This answers where the coal was stored and where NYC crossed Clinton to serve the plant.]

Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted
Old Power Plant Fort Wayne Indiana probably late 1930's
[Note the NYC yard and freight house on the right.]

Don Brown posted
City Light and Power
Gerry ThompsonRemember when you had a choice of power companies? 
Dennis DeBrulerYep. When our subdivision was built, they alternated which house got which company. We ended up with City Utilities. We were glad we had City Utilities after tornadoes took out all of the big transmission lines I&M had coming into the city. I&M homes were without power for a while. I can't remember for sure, but I think it was 7 transmission lines like spokes on a wheel. It was supposed to be enough redundancy that weather could not take out all of them. But Mother Nature managed. 
John BraseRemember it well, Palm Sunday '64. We were among the lucky City Light customers at the time. As I recall the power transmission poles had metal tags identifying them as I&M poles or City Light poles for maintenance purposes as the poles carried both wires. 

John Brase posted
Got the book from Amazon today. Very nice. Congratulations to Randy and Daniel.

David Shaw posted two photos with the comment: "Then and Now. Built in 1929, It was the City Light and Power Plant, then became the Science Central Museum in 1995."
Dick FletcherThey had the RR track up on the street side & had something that shook the cars, really loud, so the coal would come out of the bottom. 

Randy Georgi My father worked there in the 60's and early 70's just before I and M took over. He came home with t-shirts so darkened by the coal my mother dyed the shirts black.

Nancy Parker so are some of the stacks fake??

Dennis DeBruler I'm sure they were real. The older electric plants had several smaller boilers. And the removal costs would have been high enough that preservation and painting was a viable alternative. City Utilities probably sold out because units that small (and dirty) were obsolete by the 1970s. Fort Wayne consumers were also paying for duplicate distribution systems. When our subdivision was built in 1957, every other house (including ours) was CU. The others were I&M.

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Science Central posted
Cars going both ways on Clinton Street, and trains running next to Science Central...or rather, City Light & Power in those days!
Brennen Williams shared

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Nancy's question
http://www.fwhistorycenter.com/.../6E11812A-1A1E-4A9D...

Dennis DeBruler commented on Brennen's share

The building has been preserved and the smokestacks have been painted.

https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...

 

Richard Miranda posted

Fort Wayne, Indiana 

City Light & Power - March 1952 

Image Source: Pinterest

Source - Library of Congress: City Light & Power, North Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana Drawings from Survey HABS IN-251 https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.in0363.sheet/?sp=8&st=image

Jeffrey Dobek shared

Wayne York: Locomotive facing south. NKP Berkshire 765 sat in Lawton Park 1963-1974 about 1/4 mile south of here. Fifty years ago in September, 765 came OUT of that park.

Dennis Boyd: By the old 4th St. yard.

Tim Shanahan shared

Gabe Argenta: look at that grade

Maison Young shared

 

Richard commented on his post
Image Source: https://www.facebook.com/.../a.12394.../1469873823033085/...

Evan Manley provided four photos on Maison's share.

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It’s a Science Center now called “Science Central”

They left a lot of the original equipment inside too which is cool

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The History Center posted several photos with the comment:

The City of Fort Wayne made enormous strides in providing public utility service to residents at the beginning of the twentieth century. The City first declared the need for a municipal light and power plant in 1898 and voters approved the construction of a structure in 1906. By September 1908, City Light and Power was generating power, and the first service meter was set on Christmas Eve of the same year. City Light and Power was later enlarged and modernized from 1929 to 1934. The improvements included a new turbine room building, station switchboard, boiler plant, and a 15,000 kW turbo-generator. The improved municipal plant served residents for nearly forty years. The iconic stacks and lighted signs of the expanded City Light and Power Building permeate the memory of those who can remember this Summit City icon. The sale of City Light Utility to Indiana & Michigan Electric Company came after a referendum in the May 1974 primary. In September of that year, Mayor Ivan Lebamoff signed a thirty-five-year lease of the municipal operation to I & M. Since 1995 the Old City Light and Power Building has been home to Science Central. #sociallyhistory

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Becky Osbun posted three photos with the comment:

"For approximately 50 years, from 1929-1978, the City Light and Power Works building, designed by Froehlich & Emery Engineering Company, served as the chief power producer for the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana. During this time period the building underwent several alterations and additions, most notably the 1932 and 1936 bay additions. The City Light and Power building obtains style characteristics similar to typical nineteenth century buildings, by way of the limestone relief detailing and masonry detailing in both limestone and brick. The building's key features are the large industrial windows which enhance the original utilitarian purpose of the plant. Plans are already being made to transform the building into Science Central, a science museum for children. By documenting this building, it is hoped that the memory of the old City Light and Power Works can be preserved." - Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congresshttps://www.loc.gov/item/in0363/

Pat Toll Growing up, we had 2 different power companies. When storms hit, some on the street had power while others did not. I don’t remember what the other company was. Anybody remember?
Dennis DeBruler Indiana & Michigan https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/.../fort-wayne-in...
Dennis DeBruler Pat Toll Before I&M bought the other power plant, it might have been Indiana Public Service Co.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1255493367798489/permalink/2577555018925644/
Pat Toll I think that was it. Thank you so much.❤️

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Becky Osbun commented on her post
6-3-2017: "The former City Light and Power plant opened as Science Central in 1995." - Daniel A. Baker Photograph Album, ACPL

Jacqui Carroll posted
Jacqui Carroll This photo is taken from the east side of the building.
Debby Lehman Bonbrake It was about 1994, when the building was being readied to create Science Central, I remember thinking, "Wouldn't it be nice if they were to paint each stack a different color?" And then they did! Thanks for using my idea!

Silva Lining Photography posted

”Science Project.” Stayed up all night working on it.

The moon came out to play, moon rays and all.
Don’t mind the passing lights! Zoom-in and enjoy!

10 drone photos

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Traction/Spy Run/I&M Plant

Larry Krayer posted

I had noticed what looked like a yard to store interurban cars that was west of Spy Run and south of State Street. This photo provides the name of that interurban --- Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company. This was the power plant at Elizabeth and Spy Run. When I was a kid in the 1950s, I knew it as the Indiana & Michigan power plant.

The power plant was built in 1906 by "the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co., which provided electric interurban rail service from Fort Wayne to Lafayette and Lima, Ohio, and also to connections to the interurban systems in Indianapolis, said Jim Delaney....Indiana Service Co. bought out Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction in 1920 and continued providing interurban rail service until 1945, it said on the website www.indianarailroads.org." [News-Sentinel]

CassHistory, photo on p19, description on p20
The Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company helped build this 1907 plant. "Capacity of the new plant was such that the compnay began the sale of light and power to the people of Fort Wayne."
Tommy Lee Fitzwater posted
The Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company helped build this 1907 plant. "Capacity of the new plant was such that the company began the sale of light and power to the people of Fort Wayne."
Brian Plank: Power Park sits there today.

A different exposure:

Richard Miranda posted
Fort Wayne Power Station of the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company
Tim Shanahan shared

 

Richard Miranda commented on his post
Postcard - The Indiana Album

Dave Mummery posted the comment: "Today in 1952, The last freight delivered by an Indiana Public Service Company freight motor is made to the company's Ft. Wayne power plant by motor 817. Future deliveries will be made by the New York Central."

Mike Snow commented on Dave's post
Mike Snow My sources say Motor Cab 817 made it's last revenue run on February 19 1952.
[They were evidently delivering coal to the I&M power plant.]

Jeff Smith posted twelve photos withh the comment: "Some photographs of the old (now demolished) Indiana Service Corporation streetcar barn and shops on Spy Run. Photographs courtesy of the ACPL digital collection."
Dan Meese The State Street bridge look brand new. At the extreme top of the picture I can see the house I grew up in on Penn Avenue when I enlarge the picture. Penn Avenue was the last street in the city limits at the time. In this picture the street only has a few houses and was yet to be built out
James Sowers I think i&m just tore down the last of those buildings last month ??
Sandy Race Was this the I&M buildings?
Jone Jerraid Yes, I walked into that building for 35 years before I retired!
[I can remember sparks sometimes flying where the trolley pole rubs the wire. I've also watched drivers put a pole back in contact with a wire after it jumped off. It didn't happen to often, but it did happen.]

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A higher resolution and better exposure of the above.

Linda Bultemeier Krumwiede posted
Nice aerial view of the north side of Fort Wayne in 1926 or 1927. Full size image: https://drive.google.com/.../1UB_Y-JHoB_-8I9V.../view...

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One of five photos posted by Kerry Hall
Some might remember that the facility on Spy Run that Indiana & Michigan occupies prior to them buying it in the 60s started out as a repair facility for the cities street cars. The building was build in 1925 and I am not sure when it started servicing the street cars. Of course all of the overhead electrical lines were taken down long ago but when they tore down the old building and parking lot there was still a lot of railroad tracks under the ground and running through the building. Check out the area from the aerial views and notice how much it has changed.

Eric Hackworth commented on Kerry's post
If you go to the oldest imagery on the Allen County GIS Page you can see it intact.