Folks if you have time to scroll through these links you will learn about the Winona Railroad like I did recently:
| The Winona Railroad (WIN) was an interurban electric freight and passenger railroad operating in the state of Indiana. It had a main line extending from Goshen, through Warsaw to Peru, Indiana. It also had a branch line from Warsaw to the Wnona Assembly, a religious camp at Winona Lake. The WIN was an important link line between the Northern Indiana, at Goshen, that served South Bend and Michigan City in Indiana and St. Joseph, Michigan, and Peru, where it connected with the massive Indiana-Ohio interurban systems. The WIN enjoyed a brief period of passenger service in the teens and twenties, and into the early thirties carrying many folks to and from Winona Lake, but when it's connections north and south were discontinued it did not have enough local traffic to sustain it's passenger business so all services were ended by 1938. It managed to carry freight traffic, primarily coal until final shutdown in 1951-52. |
http://www.r2parks.net/WIN.html
Further read here:
http://yesteryear.clunette.com/winonadarr.html
Pretty amazing presentation here with lots of photos:
http://cornerstone.academia.ed...road_Digital_Library
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h...lections/5333399043/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h...lections/7176610127/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h...lections/5761224231/
Winona Railroad #24 on its last day of Warsaw service, July 3, 1938:
http://www.in.gov/library/exhi...ies/KosicuskoCo1.jpg
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