Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Looking for any magazine articles or books featuring the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad (IHB).

Any help greatly appreciated.

Tony Mireles

SW-1200

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Here’s some links to start with-

http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&sort=D&output=3&cmdtext=IHB

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=IHB

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ihb/ihb.html

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1917.htm

locophotos

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What are you interested in specifically? Someone has a pretty good website on the IHB, which Dale didnt list, but I cant think of it now…perhaps later i will find it.

ed

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Here’s another site-

http://ihb.railfan.net/index.html

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That’s a nice site. That orange and black paint reminds me of former minority owner CMSP&P

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Google does it again!

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MP173:

I am interested in any information concerning the history, operations and equipment of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad.

I’d like to take this time to thank all who responded to my post and offered info and links. Thanks.

Tony

SW-1200

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I originally posted this in 2006. In the spring of 2007, I wrote Peggy Bricker of the IHB and pitched a book about the history of the IHB. I received no reply. I wrote them again a few months later. Still no reply. In my letters I explained how marketable an IHB History Book would be and who it could be sold to (the basic stuff of a real book proposal). Not a peep from the IHB. Without help from the IHB archives, I abandoned the project as too time consuming and difficult to put together (just did not have the contacts for vintage IHB photos at the time). I have moved on to a rail disaster book treating the Great Lakes area.

Well, I found out recently that a couple years back a local historian was approached by the IHB and commissioned to write an IHB book. What a coincidence! I found out that it might be just a photo book and not a comprehensive meat and potatos history. All well and good. I want to post it here that I approached IHB first and they brushed me off. I am a history author with a domestic and international reputation, so I am not just some schmuck off of the street. I really wanted to write that book with IHB’s help. Didn’t happen. Well, I wish the guy good luck. And I am very interested to see his finished work. You heard it here first.

Anthony J. Mireles

Calumet City, Illinois

Author:

FATAL ARMY AIR FORCES AVIATION ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1941-1945

www.warbirdcrash.com

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I hear the IHB book will be coming out at the end of the month.

TM

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http://www.goldenspike.us/?page=shop/flypage&wt=2.00&product_id=24283&CLSN_1119=131337605611199788de47ff32e820e4

Here it is. October 24. It is amazing that it has taken this long for someone to put out an IHB book.

Looks good. $50

TM

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The following is a site that I’ve visited seve****ral times and archived!

http://www.dhke.com/ihbarchive/index.html

P.S. Hello Dale![bow]

Good to see you still find your way around here, from time to time![tup][tup]

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$59.95 from the publisher, Morning Sun Books - but absolutely no details as to no. of pages, illustrations, any rosters included, etc. - http://www.morningsunbooks.com/new.html#november

It’ll be interesting to see how the book actually stacks up in those aspects - and whether it’s a ‘for-real’ critical historical examination, or just a collection of photos, etc.

  • Paul North.
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Paul, my experience with the Morning Sun books has been that they’re usually excellent photo collections. Captions are dependent on the author’s knowledge, and may or may not contain useful history. You may find some unusual stuff herein.

I doubt that this should keep SW1200 from attempting to publish his own IHB history.