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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

RARE CSX GP38-2 Makes a Set-Out and THROTTLES UP!!

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Looking North on BN

Looking West on NS

Looking West On NS

Looking West on NS with Clear Indication

This is the crossing of the BNSF (Ex-BN) Beardstown Line with the NS (ex-Wabash) Kansas City mainline.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

NYC SIGNALS AT BRIMFIELD, IN 7/18/17

This pair of NYC Tri-Light signals guarded the NS EX-NYC Water Level Route at Brimfield, Indiana. Note that the signal bridge only has one light. These were replaced in 2018.

RAILROAD TOWER AND CABOOSE INTERIOR TOURS AT GRIFFITH, INDIANA

This is a tour of the railroad tower at Griffith, Indiana. It was retired in December, 1999, and relocated across the tracks in July, 2000. This tower once controlled the crossing of five railroad lines, and once saw the passage of 180 trains a day! Filmed in September, 2011.

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Monday, December 8, 2025

CSX Wellsboro, IN Railroad Junction Reallignment 1998

In August, 1998, we visited Wellsboro, Indiana, to find that CSX had done some housecleaning, much to the disgust of railfans. CSX's ex-B&O Willard Sub crossed the GTW Chicago-Battle Creek main, as well as CSX's ex-C&O nee-Pere Marquette branch. The three lines once crossed here in the shape of a triangle. Now the C&O simply merges into the B&O on a new connecting track from the south. The diamonds with the B&O and GTW were removed, as well as all the C&O trackage north of the junction. A balloon track once wrapped around and connected up with the B&O to the west. Between 1974 and 1986, Amtrrak's JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, later renamed the CARDINAL, used the C&O mainline through Indiana. Beginning on June 1, 1977, it took the B&O to Wellsboro, and utilized this connecting track to the Pere Marquette branch, which they took to La Crosse to pick up the C&O of Indiana mainline. The Pere Marquette branch was abandoned north of here in 1988. Note the recently removed rail, rusty connecting tracks, and the new tri-light signals, which replaced the color position lights. You can see a CPL lying on the ground on the south side of the mainline. My father, who was always big into the signal hobby, was furious when he saw this sight! As of 2011, the trailers next to the diamond are also gone. Wellsboro is still a hotspot, but is not as interesting as it once was. Click here for a 1997 view when this junction still had a triangle of diamonds: 👉🏻