Ft Wayne tips

[butch]

I will be in Ft Wayne this Sat/Sun and I may get a chance to do some exploring Saturday afternoon.  Anyone have any suggestions on what to do/where to go?

Thanks,

Butch

[swinstandley]

Butch,

Triple Crown Services is headquarted in Ft. Wayne:
http://www.triplecrownsvc.com/Directions.html

But the TC rail yard is near US 30E and N. Coliseum Blvd. about halfway between downtown and New Haven where NKP 765 is located at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, 15808 Edgerton Rd.

Stew

[E.M. Bell]

The NS yard there in the Fort is fairly accessible without getting run out. There is a public street that runs almost the entire length, and a parking area on the East end up by the shop. They still have a turntable there and its in a open area that might be good for a pic or Two if you happen to catch them turning something.

Just East of the yard, there is a junction of Two lines (I cant tell you much more than that) that we have been to a time or Two. There is a gravel parking lot at a concrete place that you can sit in and kill some time.  You would probably enjoy stopping by the FWRHS shop as mentioned, and those guys are a pretty friendly bunch. I think the shop is open to the public on the weekends...

[butch]

Thanks for the tips guys. Hopefully the volleyball goes well and I get a chance to sneak away for to explore.

[Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR]

Doesn't the cf&e run up that way too? The Chicago fort Wayne and eastern, I know that's a rail America line and all but they might have something worth seeing.

[butch]

Well I ended up not getting out until almost 4p and it clouded up before 5p.  The line from Wabash runs within a half mile of the hotel so I checked out some crossings and did catch one eastbound stack train.