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  • MILW 1416 Class I-5A 0-6-0

    Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, MILW 1416 Class I-5A 0-6-0 Built by Milwaukee shops in 1908. Purchased from the Evansville Museum from the Wabash Sand and Gravel Company, Inc. in 1965. Now resorted to original and on display at the Evansville Museum Transportation Center (EMTRAC) in Evansville, Indiana on April 30, 2021. #evansvillemuseum

  • MILW 1416 Class I-5A 0-6-0

    Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, MILW 1416 Class I-5A 0-6-0 Built by Milwaukee shops in 1908. Purchased from the Evansville Museum from the Wabash Sand and Gravel Company, Inc. in 1965. Now resorted to original and on display at the Evansville Museum Transportation Center (EMTRAC) in Evansville, Indiana on April 30, 2021. #evansvillemuseum

  • CSXT 7008 GE CM44AC

    CSX Transportation CSXT 7008 GE CM44AC Rebuilt (AC44CW) southbound crossing over the approach, The bridge that opened on December 31, 1932. Including its approaches, It is 12,123 feet long, and its span over the main channel is 648 feet long in Evansville, Indiana on March 21, 2021.

  • CSXT 3159 GE ES44AC

    CSX Transportation, CSXT 3159 GE ES44AC northbound crossing over the long approach on the Indiana side in Evansville, Indiana on March 21, 2021.

  • CSXT 3159 GE ES44AC

    CSX Transportation, CSXT 3159 GE ES44AC northbound crossing over the 648 feet long Henderson bridge onto the long approach on the Indiana side in Evansville, Indiana on March 21, 2021.

  • CSXT 971 GE ES44AC-H

    CSX Transportation CSXT 971 GE ES44AC-H with a loaded coal train ready to leave Howell yard as an empty coal train pulls into the track next to it, in Evansville, Indiana on March 10, 2021.

    The town of Howell was platted in 1885 along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was named after Lee Howell, the local L&N freight agent. An L&N rail yard at Howell was completed in 1889. Most residents worked for the L&N. As of 1904, the town was a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live. In 1915 or 1916, Evansville annexed Howell. From Wikipedia

  • EVWR 3837 EMD GP39-2

    Evansville Western Railway EVWR 3837 EMD GP39-2 moving through Howlle yard as a train is leaving in Evansville, Indiana on March 10, 2021.

  • WFRX 560 EMD GP15

    Wells Fargo Rail WFRX 560 EMD GP15-1 ex-UPY/MP setting on the lead track (downtown track) to Berry Plastics, major track work as been done in this area including a new runaround track this locomotive is setting on, I understand that Respondek Railroad will be taking over the switching for Berry Plastics soon here in Evansville, Indiana on March 4, 2021

    Wells Fargo Rail (reporting marks WFRX, NDYX, and FURX) is the new name for the historic First Union Rail Corporation, along with the combined business of the former GE Capital Rail Services, which Wells Fargo purchased from GE in September 2015. The new company/name took effect January 1, 2016, and is based in Rosemont, Illinois, USA. Wells Fargo Rail is the largest railcar and locomotive leasing company in North America with over 175,000 railcars and 1,800 locomotives available.

  • CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC

    CSX Transportation CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC Southbound leading W809 a Military train going to New Orleans, Louisiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision at Baseline Road in Evansville, Indiana on February 20, 2021.

  • CN 8829 GE ES44AC

    Canadian Pacific CN 8829 GE ES44AC Southbound K tank train at CSX Howell yard in Evansville, Indiana on April 2, 2013.