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Tim Fennell's Collection
 
5/21/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Chicago and Western Indiana
Type: MofW Equipment
AAR Class: MWW: Wrecking Derrick. A derrick used for wrecking purposes, having donkey engine to raise and lower booms and hoists; engine housed in and on separate platform with boom, is pivoted in center of car frame in order that it can be worked on either side or ends; usually fitted with anchor beams to be used for heavy lifting. Fitted with safety appliances and propelled by means of locomotive. Lifting capacity in tons shown by means of figures.
AAR Type: M250
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   100-ton Wrecker Built in 1906

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C&WI #1900
Title:  C&WI #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/2004  Upload Date: 9/12/2010 3:51:43 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  338   Comments: 0
C&WI #1900
Title:  C&WI #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/2005  Upload Date: 8/9/2010 1:25:37 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  379   Comments: 0
C&WI 1900
Title:  C&WI 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/17/2006  Upload Date: 12/21/2009 7:32:57 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  160   Comments: 0
C&WI 1900
Title:  C&WI 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/17/2006  Upload Date: 12/21/2009 7:34:13 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  213   Comments: 0
"Roundhouse Leads"
Title:  "Roundhouse Leads"
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/15/2007  Upload Date: 8/11/2010 6:09:38 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  474   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Crane
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Crane
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/15/2007  Upload Date: 8/11/2010 6:10:41 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  799   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  9/21/2013  Upload Date: 9/30/2013 8:37:11 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  111   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  9/21/2013  Upload Date: 9/30/2013 8:37:36 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  136   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 4:43:45 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  222   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 4:44:20 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  451   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 4:44:57 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  239   Comments: 2
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam derrick, built by Industrial Works during 1906. Acquired by IRM in 1968.
Photo Date:  10/13/2013  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 5:04:47 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  289   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana wrecker and idler flat
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana wrecker and idler flat
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 6:42:11 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  306   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  100-ton steam wrecker built by Industrial Works in 1906.
Photo Date:  7/7/2018  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 8:13:45 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  58   Comments: 0
Greetings from Lake Union
Title:  Greetings from Lake Union
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 10:55:48 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  304   Comments: 0
Receding Flood Waters
Title:  Receding Flood Waters
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 11:26:46 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  281   Comments: 0
Wrecker at Sunset
Title:  Wrecker at Sunset
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/2018  Upload Date: 9/16/2018 3:33:23 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  109   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Description:  The Illinois Railway Museum's 112-year-old 100-ton steam wrecker.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 8:47:33 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Wrecker
Description:  Looking like a wreck train sitting on a siding of some obscure shortline.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:24:42 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  162   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description:  A 100-ton steam wrecker built by Industrial Works in 1906.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:29:01 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  145   Comments: 1
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:30:44 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  163   Comments: 1
Chicago & Western Indiana #1904
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1904
Description:  With sway rods and arch bar trucks, the C&WI wrecker's flatcar is quite the vestige of railroadings past.
Photo Date:  10/13/2018  Upload Date: 10/17/2018 9:32:36 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  118   Comments: 1
Chicago & Western Indiana Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Steam Wrecker
Description:  115-year-old 100-ton crane
Photo Date:  7/26/2021  Upload Date: 8/2/2021 1:53:29 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/6/2021  Upload Date: 8/8/2021 2:51:08 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana #1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/6/2021  Upload Date: 8/8/2021 2:52:06 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
Western Indiana Wrecker
Title:  Western Indiana Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/15/2023  Upload Date: 6/13/2023 5:44:22 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
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Views:  71   Comments: 0


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