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Description: Just to the North of the first entrance
into the downtown Post Office is railroad tracks left over from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Shops.
Keywords: Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad Shops,
US Post Office
Date of photos: March 25, 2004
Camera: Kodak DX3900
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Pennsylvania Railroad Shops
For 100 years, until
the early 1950's, the Pennsylvania
Railroad used this site
for construction and repair
of rolling Stock.
Over 300 locomotives and
12,000 cars were designed
and built here. In its
hey-day more than 1,000
men were employed.
Allen County-Fort Wayne
Historical Society |
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