Hello fellow railfans. I have just started learning about a railroad that was connected to my Boy Scout camp. The railroad was the Fort Wayne, Jackson, and Saginaw Railroad. It was later absorbed by the NYC. If anyone has any additional information, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Here is one web site about your railroad. Try googling it. I found many links with information about it.
http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/09/nycs-fort-wayne-jackson-and-saginaw.html
The remnent north of Owosso used to see tourist runs behind PM #1225 steam engine, but I recall to line can no longer support the weight, and the steamer occasionally runs on GLC (ex-AA). the segment from Jackson to Lansing is shortlined. Not sure what is happening south of there.
If you want to gain a thumbnail understanding of how that railroad started, take a look at the ICC Valuation Dockets (written circa 1915-1926) for all of the steam railroads (and some of the electric interurbans that moved freight)… Fort Wayne Jackson & Saginaw and NYC are both in the Rice Index. (Here: http://rnetzlof.pennsyrr.com/iccindex/icc_n.html , NYC is Valuation Docket # 1022, took up two whole bound books at ICC at 800+ pages each and FtWJ&S (later Ft. Wayne & Jackson RR) is tucked-in with NYC) …Wikipedia, LabelledModels, KiwiTrainz, Rails & Trails.com and others shamelessly plagarize the ICC Dockets created by ICC General Orders 20 and 26.
You can start looking at their demise with the end of PC and the beginning of CR in the USRA Preliminary and Final System plans of 1975-76…also out on the web as a scanned doc.(huge)
From ICC GO-20 and Valuation Docket 1022:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Trains/ICC_valuations/New_York_Central_Railroad
- FORT WAYNE & JACKSON
- INTRODUCTORY
The Fort Wayne & Jackson is a corporatio
Thanks for all your help. i really appreciate it.