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3/16/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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:  420   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
Locomotives: 
Views:  463   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:  208   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:  266   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:  560   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:  974   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana Idler Flat for Crane
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana Idler Flat for Crane
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:21 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  163   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:28 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:34 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
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Views:  133   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:41 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  166   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:47 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  146   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:32:53 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  127   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:01 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  137   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:09 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:22 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  140   Comments: 0
Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0 Steam Locomotive & Steam Crane
Title:  Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0 Steam Locomotive & Steam Crane
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:33:58 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 100 Ton Steam Wrecker
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/4/2011  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 12:34:14 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  244   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  163   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:  183   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:  274   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:  580   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:  295   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:  345   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  387   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  100   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 1900
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 7/31/2019 12:33:05 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CO 2707(2-8-4) GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
Chicago & Western Indiana 1904
Title:  Chicago & Western Indiana 1904
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2018  Upload Date: 7/31/2019 12:36:48 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CO 2707(2-8-4) GTW 8380(0-8-0)
Views:  466   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  379   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  355   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:  165   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:  142   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:  251   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:  200   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  220   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:  176   Comments: 1
CWI 1900
Title:  CWI 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2021  Upload Date: 10/17/2021 11:45:55 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  99   Comments: 0
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:  160   Comments: 0
C&WI Crane 1900
Title:  C&WI Crane 1900
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2022  Upload Date: 6/24/2022 11:32:09 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Wil Hata
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  104   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  163   Comments: 0


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