Rydman & Fox
operates the Indian Creek Railroad from
their location northwest of Anderson,
Indiana, to the Florida Station connection
with main line railroad service. Indian
Creek Railroad was formed in 1981 to
provide economical shipping of outgoing
grain and incoming bulk fertilizer for
Rydman & Fox customers. The company operates numerous trains each year headed by their
locomotive, #6002, shown at below on
a brisk February 2002 morning.
Acquired in 1982, the #6002 is an ex-Southern Paciic Alco RS11 built in 1959
and rebuilt in 1996. The well maintained
RS11 earns its keep filling hoppers,
making up grain trains to be picked up at Florida Station
on Norfolk Southern's Indian Creek Secondary,
and bringing fertilizer cars back up
the hill to the bulk storage facilitiy.
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