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6/16/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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:  526   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:  582   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:  308   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:  350   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:  700   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:  1149   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:  264   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:  215   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
Locomotives: 
Views:  217   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:  260   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:  258   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:  213   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:  213   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:  263   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:  228   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:  422   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:  399   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:  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 8:37:36 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  259   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:  344   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:  739   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:  387   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:  449   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:  551   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:  188   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:  731   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:  680   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:  499   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:  485   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:  291   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:  219   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: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  375   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:  302   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:  315   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:  310   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:  183   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:  227   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:  172   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:  298   Comments: 0


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