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The Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad (reporting mark CKIN) is a Class III short-line railroad operating 33 miles (53 km) of rail line in northwestern Indiana.From the headquarters town of La Crosse, lines run northwest to the Porter County town of Malden, southeast to the Starke County towns of English Lake and North Judson, and northeast through La Porte County past Thomaston and Hanna to Wellsboro.
This category is for railroad engineers, also known as locomotive engineers, train operators, train drivers or engine drivers, people who operate a railroad locomotive and train. People who design or build them should be in Category:Locomotive builders and designers
DSB train driver in 1987 Czech steam locomotive driver The cab of a New South Wales Xplorer diesel multiple unit Inside the train driver's cab of a German ICE train Women railway shunters, England, c. 1915 –1920. A train driver is a person who operates a train, railcar, or other rail transport vehicle. The driver is in charge of and is ...
A railroad section gang — including common workers sometimes called gandy dancers — responsible for maintenance of a particular section of railway.One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail.
Bedford and Bloomfield Railroad, Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad: Bloomington Southern Railroad: IC: 1906 1946 Illinois Central Railroad: Bluffton, Kokomo and Southwestern Railroad: NKP: 1886 1886 Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad: Borinstein Railroad: BRRC 1985 early 1990s: N/A Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad: NYC: 1835 1837 ...
The last horse-drawn railway in Germany. Horses were replaced by diesel locomotives on 31 May 1949 McKenzie Creek Tramway: 1887–1925 Horsham, Victoria: Shire-operated, 8 kilometres (5 mi) long Nasik Tramway: 1889–1930s India: Bärschwil gypsum railway: 1894–1952 2 ft (610 mm) Switzerland: Welshpool Jetty railway: 1905–1941 2 ft 6 in ...
The FWRHS, celebrating its own 40th anniversary, outfitted No. 765 with a GPS tracker which was viewed over 120,000 times on August 20, 2012, with a mobile app version downloaded over 19,000 times. Of note, the locomotive is the first steam locomotive to maintain an active Twitter presence: a practice later followed by Union Pacific's steam ...
The line was opened by the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad in 1874. [3] It became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers. Derailments occurred on the line in 2002, 2010, [4] [better source needed] on January 6, 2012 (near Portage, Indiana) [5] on April 22, 2014 (near Saint Joe, Indiana), [6] [7] and on July 21, 2021 (near Auburn, Indiana).