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Labor History Map of Indianapolis |
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Once called the "greatest locomotive hospital in the world," this multiple building complex was built between 1906 and 1910 by the Big Four Railroad, a subsidiary of the New York Central Railroad, at an initial cost of $5 million.
The several buildings were used to perform repair work on the company's large fleet of steam locomotives. The massive buildings, some with over 200,000 square feet of space, housed the extensive production line that originally used mules to haul the locomotives that could not be moved on their own. When opened in 1910, the facility employed 700 workers. This number jumped to 5,000 during World War II. Amtrak acquired the facility from Penn Central RR Company in 1975 and converted it to service its diesel locomotives and passenger cars. |
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Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, page 314-315.
Ared M. Murphy, "The Big Four Railroad in Indiana," Indiana Magazine of History, 21 (June and September 1925), 109-273. Robert M. Taylor, Jr., et al., Indiana: A New Historical Guide (Indianapolis, 1989). |
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