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by Standard Railfan
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Hamilton Northwestern Railroad Co.
Replies: 208
Views: 1554389

Re: Hamilton Northwestern Railroad Co.

I thought I read somewhere‘s on RailRoadFan.com that the WMI was transloading apples that were transported up to Traverse City Michigan for Gogo Squeez. So who knows what the actual range on a transload site could be. Here’s an interesting thought. If Gogo Squeez transloaded those apples from the H...
by Standard Railfan
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:33 am
Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
Topic: Cancer
Replies: 48
Views: 57077

Re: Cancer

TSB wrote:
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:04 pm
3/20 scan results---> No active cancer growth anywhere. :lol: :mrgreen:
I’m glad to hear the good news!
by Standard Railfan
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:27 am
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: CSX Pullman, MI Derailment, March 16, 1998.
Replies: 17
Views: 10916

Re: CSX Pullman, MI Derailment, March 16, 1998.

Sorry for responding to this conversation very late but I’ve always wondered what happened at that curve after watching the Thornapple River Rail Series coal train chase video! Glad I was bored this morning and decided to research! And it’s nice to know there is a lot of history with this derailmen...
by Standard Railfan
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: MMRR to cease operations in 2025?
Replies: 42
Views: 4097

Re: MMRR to cease operations in 2025?

Well lets start with the agri traffic on the line and well start with ethanol plant in Caro and the sugar plant there too. tttleshe shuttles of ddg and ethanol should keep them very busy. The elevator at Colling is inactive at this time. Over on the Denmark Branch I can imagine that both of the sta...
by Standard Railfan
Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - February 2024
Replies: 111
Views: 8472

Re: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - February 2024

~Z~ wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:21 pm
Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 4:21pm. WAMX 4189 LHF solo with zero cars. That's an odd movement.
Makes up for the big train yesterday :lol:
by Standard Railfan
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: Illinois Talk
Topic: Metra buying battery-powered trainsets
Replies: 5
Views: 1658

Re: Metra buying battery-powered trainsets

The use of battery powered trainsets is becoming more common.

https://www.alstom.com/press-releases- ... irish-rail
by Standard Railfan
Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Historical photos from the Ann Arbor News of AA railroads
Replies: 12
Views: 1833

Re: Historical photos from the Ann Arbor News of AA railroads

Michael wrote:
Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:41 am
Did you see this one from 1936 of Fingerle Lumber?
https://aadl.org/N016_0659_001
I am curious why the railroad crew is waiting while the cars are being unloaded.

I didn’t realize that “just in time” delivery existed in 1936. :lol:
by Standard Railfan
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2024
Replies: 181
Views: 26522

Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2024

Thank you for checking into it, LRF. It would have been nice if E&LS was switching the plant again bit it will have to remain a customer on my paper railroad only for now :) You have me interested. E&LS doesn't have a connection to Billerud. They would have to use trackage rights on CN. I know you ...
by Standard Railfan
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:48 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: MIGN Customers
Replies: 16
Views: 9478

Re: MIGN Customers

Do you know when AmeriGas (Petrolane) in Petoskey last used rail? Williamsburg - Transload Shed: Transload food products in boxcars or refrigerated boxcars (this may have been built during TSBY's ownership). I always wondered what that was! Thanks for providing a backstory for that shed. From Googl...
by Standard Railfan
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Big Rapids depot write-up/railroad history
Replies: 1
Views: 899

Re: Big Rapids depot write-up/railroad history

I also attended Ferris a loooong time ago. I took a great head on shot of a PNC Geep at the Maple Street crossing adjacent to the depot. Alas the print and negatives have been lost to time. The write up of the “depot history” is a bit lacking. There is a lot of railroad history in the area. A great ...
by Standard Railfan
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Cement Post
Replies: 13
Views: 3759

Re: Cement Post

It's just south of 76th st along GDLK near Byron Center. Could be a phone support stand maybe. Interesting find. Concrete posts were not a “standard” on the PRR, most of the drawings I have seen specify a wrought iron post. I wonder if the post may have been installed during WW2 when steel was in s...
by Standard Railfan
Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: Indiana Talk
Topic: Terre Haute, IN
Replies: 3
Views: 8385

Re: Terre Haute, IN

Speaking of Terre Haute--- does anybody know where the MILW. ROADS yard was in Terre Haute? Remember reading somewhere that it was almost circular. I examined the 1941 edition of the USGS topo map. I believe the CMSt.P&P yard and shops were on the south side of town. The yard does not appear circul...
by Standard Railfan
Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:13 am
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Soo Line 730 cosmetic restoration in Gladstone
Replies: 5
Views: 3098

Re: Soo Line 730 cosmetic restoration in Gladstone

I drove by the Gladstone yard yesterday. Soo Line 730 looked great after the cleaning mentioned in the news article.
by Standard Railfan
Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:33 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Upper Peninsula Railroading
Replies: 22
Views: 10512

Re: Upper Peninsula Railroading

A publicly funded organization has been created to protect the White Pine subdivision in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2 ... ommission/
by Standard Railfan
Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:15 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Upper Peninsula Railroading
Replies: 22
Views: 10512

Re: Upper Peninsula Railroading

Anyone have any type of timing or schedule for the Port Inland Railroad or the mining railroad at Cedarville? I believe both are now inaccessible to the public, unless you trespass. Timing or schedule varies. The only crossing on the Port Inland Railroad (Batty Doe Lake Road) was supposedly removed...
by Standard Railfan
Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:04 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: MDOT/GLC Manistee Bridge gets federal funding
Replies: 17
Views: 5948

Re: MDOT/GLC Manistee Bridge gets federal funding

Hopefully this bridge remodel will allow 1225 to go north to Petoskey and TC, and what I heard, more shipments could go north as well, so the possibility of new customers on the line. Sounds like a good next couple of years for business in Northern Michigan :D The bridge historically kept large PRR...
by Standard Railfan
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:55 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: GLC Train Location Updates - October 2023
Replies: 63
Views: 18335

Re: GLC Train Location Updates - October 2023

AANscaleRunner wrote:
Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:18 am
396 and 399 leaving Cadillac towards Clare approximately 1000.
Darn it. I was an hour early.
by Standard Railfan
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:02 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Shortlines Train Location Heads Up - October 2023
Replies: 137
Views: 31398

Re: Shortlines Train Location Heads Up - October 2023

Late post

Grand Elk UP
WMAX 3885
EB Seney 13:40
1 Box
1 centerbeam with heavy timber
1 tank

WMAX 5551 and a Wisconsin & Southern GP tied down in Newberry approximately 1300
Track work on Asylum Spur.
by Standard Railfan
Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:44 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Shortlines Train Location Heads Up - September 2023
Replies: 125
Views: 25544

Re: Shortlines Train Location Heads Up - September 2023

Grand Elk Yooper branch:

EB M-28 crossing at Seney at 1121.
HCLX 3885 leading 6 cars
by Standard Railfan
Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:28 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: MDOT/GLC Manistee Bridge gets federal funding
Replies: 17
Views: 5948

Re: MDOT/GLC Manistee Bridge gets federal funding

MiddleMI wrote:
Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:23 pm
Where is the proper location of this bridge?
The proper location is centered on the right of way over the Manistee River. :lol:

Mile 350.66. 44°29.8349'N 85°25.5326'W