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4/30/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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:  482   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
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Views:  521   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:  254   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:  310   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:  634   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:  1068   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:  200   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
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Views:  175   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:  175   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:  205   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:  178   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:  161   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:  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 12:33:09 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Mauricio Burguete
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  214   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:  177   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:  330   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:  314   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:  193   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:  220   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:  305   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:  660   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:  335   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:  387   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:  447   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:  134   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:  631   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:  573   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:  437   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: 
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Views:  418   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:  204   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:  186   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:  317   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:  244   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:  256   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:  227   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:  146   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:  197   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:  141   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:  231   Comments: 0


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