Ferdinand

Company History: The FRDN was built in 1909 to connect Ferdinand, Indiana to the Southern Railway at Huntingburg, six and a half miles away. The line was not heavily traveled and a single 4-4-0 worked the line until 1953. A GE 45-tonner then took over. The railroad was owned by the Dolly Madison Bakery for several years. They had a facility served by the Ferdinand. During the incentive per diem boxcar boom, car builder and lessor Evans Transportation leased Ferdinand’s FRDN reporting marks and placed more than a thousand cars in service (more than could be stored on the railroad if they all came home at once.) After the boom, the railroad was sold in 1987 and became the Ferdinand & Huntingburg for a few years before being abandoned in 1991.

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