THE INDIANA RAIL ROAD COMPANY Nickel Plate From the camera of Don

From the camera of Don McCartney

This is the backdrop for Union Pacific’s Portland Subdivision between Portland

Volume 5 of the Southern Pacific Historic Diesels series features General Electric U-Series locomotives

the Union Pacific 844 and Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotives made history by doubleheading for the first time ever between Tacoma and Everett

144 All-Color pages

THE INDIANA RAIL ROAD COMPANY Nickel Plate From the camera of DonThe Indiana Rail Road Company is a story of extraordinary success among the scores of independent short line and regional railroads spawned in the wake of railroad deregulation. Christopher Rund chronicles the development of the company from its origins as part of Americas first land grant railroad, the Illinois Central, through the political and financial juggling required by entrepreneur Tom Hoback to purchase the line when it fell into disrepair.