Today I stumbled upon a poor picture of a Wabash box car. It was sublettered for a subsidiary company New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois. On the web site posted yesterday, this company name is listed. But I don't find a live link to further information. What's the story on this RR? New Jersey seems a long way from Wabash territory? Boxcab E50
The little bit I could find quickly is that the Wabash bought the NJI&I in 1926 and operated it as a seperate railroad. I found some info at: http://kepshire.tripod.com/rr/njii.html
I was wondering where and how "New Jersey" came into the mix. That site explains things well enough. Thanks! Boxcab E50
I have found that the Jersey started in 1905. There were no predecessor names mentioned. It seemed to be under joint WABASH/N&W control from 1920 until my info runs out in 1982. (active '82) It was a Class II RR. (1911 standards: $100,000 to 1 million dollars)
Wabash / NJI&I The NJI&I was used primarily by Singer sewing machine co. in South Bend In. This is where they had offies at and one was in New Jeresy, they did as well run some passenger service at one point in time. the picture is of the round house they had , also was a turntable at this site as well. The turntable is gone but the roundhouse is still there. Hope this helps. Paul
nji&i tracks there is no tracks going to it off main anymore awhile back think it was used to do some maintance stuff. the track that go by it do some coal servicing now always has some NS coal cars there. this site has alot on the nji&i and some other indiana rr a pretty neat site. hope everyone enjoys the site. http://www.monon.monon.org/rr/njii.html
A friend was just here. And we were surfing "that" auction site. Guess what I saw??? An NJI&I switch key was being offered! Boxcab E50
