The 2025 PCRRHS Annual Convention was held September 18-20 at the Holiday Inn Purdue - Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Indiana, located directly across from the Memorial Coliseum.

TOURS

Friday, September 19, 2025
• Former PRR/PC/Amtrak Baker St. depot (1:30– 2:30 PM)

Saturday, September 20, 2025 (bus trip)
• Indiana Northeastern Railroad diesel shop (9:00 AM – 11:00 AM)
• Chartered train ride from Pleasant Lake, IN to Reading, MI and return (11:30 AM – 2:30 PM)
• Waterloo, IN Amtrak depot (2:45 PM – 3:15 PM)

BANQUET

Saturday, September 20, 2025 (7:00 PM – 10:00 PM)
The convention banquet will be held at Hall’s Tavern at Coventry, 5745 Coventry Lane, Ft Wayne, IN 46804, near the I-69/US 24 exit.

Our guest speaker was Craig Berndt of the Northeast Indiana Railroad Historical Society. Craig is an historian of Allen County, Indiana’s, railroads, and will talk to us about the history of the PRR’s Baker Street station from its beginning in 1914 to the end of Amtrak service in 1990.

Cover image courtesy of Good Free Photos.