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Non - Monon But Of Interest => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Chuck Stewart on December 18, 2015, 07:58:19 am

Title: Westfield loco?
Post by: Chuck Stewart on December 18, 2015, 07:58:19 am

My kid brother recently took this photo of an F7(?) in a restaurant in Westfield.  He was led to believe the photo was taken in Westfield....
Does anyone recognize the railroad and did that railroad really run through Westfield?
Thanks,
Chuck

Title: Re: Westfield loco?
Post by: Steve Dolzall on December 18, 2015, 09:15:00 am

It's the original Fair Train paint scheme that operated over the Monon. About 1985/86 vintage.

Steve

Title: Re: Westfield loco?
Post by: Ryan Rybarczyk on December 18, 2015, 09:16:15 am

That is the Indiana Transportation Museum's (ex-MILW) #96. That picture was taken on the 1983 Fair Train. #96 is sitting at the museum painted in Monon R&G with a broken flywheel...it has been out of service for over a decade now. In 1983, the first year of the Fair Train, the ITM ran over the old Monon RoW from Carmel down to the Fairgrounds. I believe the connection was made via the Central Indiana between Noblesville and Westfield.

Title: Re: Westfield loco?
Post by: Chuck Stewart on December 18, 2015, 05:38:34 pm

Thanks, guys!