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Posted 11/17/2007--
From Brookston Indiana, NWIRPS members have recovered a vintage Monon railroad caboose--
Story is here
Posted 8/26/2007--
Sunday the 19th, NWIRPS members headed to Fort Wayne Indiana, home of Nickel Plate 765--
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society was holding their annual open house event along with, for a nominal fee, a chance to sit in the engineer's seat and run this glorious steam locomotive.
Seated is NWIRPS member Mark Hajduk, instructed & supervised by Rich Melvin.
Posted on 6/25/2007--
The NWIRPS July meeting will take place on the 5th @ 6:00PM, at the Hammond Public Library.
Guest speaker Jeremy White, liaison of the town of Dyer Indiana and Amtrak, will be discussing the undertaking of maintenance of the Dyer depot, which is located on the former Monon railroad right-of-way.
Jeremy will provide an overview of his project, similar to that of Crawfordsville's Amtrak Station.
HAMMOND, IN - The Northwest Indiana Rail Preservation Society (NWIRPS) has scheduled their first public meeting for June 07, 2007 at 06:30pm. Location and agenda to be announced soon.
Membership applications will be available.
The first work session for the NKP 624 will be the following Saturday and Sunday, June 09 & 10 from 08:00am until 4:00pm.
Volunteers will be required to sign a hold harmless agreement.
Safety equipment for some tasks is required, so if you have steel toe shoes, safety glasses, gloves and ear plugs please have them available for your protection.
Rakes, brooms, shovels, and other hand tools can be brought for general yard and cleanup use if you have them.
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