Fort Wayne Transportation History: Railroads, Transit, Airports and Roads

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Fort Wayne Transportation History: Railroads, Transit, Airports and Roads

Rail, streetcar and bus, airfields and the great roads.

The Pennsylvania Railroad station on West Baker Street, Fort Wayne, 2011. CC0 · source file

Fort Wayne Railroad History: The Railroad CityTrains · the railroad cityFort Wayne was a transportation city before it was anything else: a carrying place between rivers, then the summit of the longest canal in North America, then — for nearly fifty years after the Civil War — one of the…13 entry pages

Fort Wayne Public Transit: From Horse Cars to CitilinkTransit · from horse cars to CitilinkFort Wayne has had public transit, under one owner or another, since 1872 — and it has changed its technology three times and its ownership four. The street railway came first, horse-drawn and then electric; the wires…9 entry pages

Fort Wayne Airports: Smith Field, Baer Field and the Airline ErasThe Airports · Fort Wayne's fields and airline erasFort Wayne has had two airports for almost its whole flying life, and the pair of them carry the names of the city's two dead aviators. The north-side field came first: a pasture the city inspected in 1919, bought in…15 entry pages

Fort Wayne and the Automobile: The Truck Plant and the Car TradeAutomobiles · The Car, the Truck Plant, and the TradeFort Wayne's automobile history is, at its documented core, a truck story with a brass-era prelude. The city built cars under its own marques for only about a decade — a carriage house's automobile of 1899–1900 and a…16 entry pages

Fort Wayne's Main Roads: The Corridors That Built Each Part of TownCorridors · each area's great roadFort Wayne grew along its roads the way it first grew along its rivers and its canal: outward, in lines. Every part of the city has one street that did the work of a main street for that part of town — the road the…16 entry pages

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Source: Fort Wayne Transportation History: Railroads, Transit, Airports and Roads, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/transportation/

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