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- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GDLK Operations
- Replies: 1681
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Re: GDLK Operations
Botsford was a Boston banker who helped finance the Michigan Central.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GDLK Gearhart yard
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2675
Re: GDLK Gearhart yard
I just read on a railfan website that the name of Gearhart yard has possibly been changed to Botsford. Does anybody know if this is true and if so why name change? While the GDLK collectively called it Gearhart, the original Botsford name remained in use by organizations like the FRA. The lease fro...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GDLK Gearhart yard
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2675
Re: GDLK Gearhart yard
Perhaps someone with a better memory can correct this if needed. I thought the roundhouse burned down during a firefighter strike back before Kalamazoo merged police and fire. Conrail tore the round house down in the 80's (no fire) and removed the turntable. Locomotives were not allowed into the ro...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
They were running both a Phase 1 and Penn Central E units on the Amtrak trains today. Busy place on a Sunday afternoon.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
Yes it is. Currently running the Amtrak rainbow era on one of their layouts.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:57 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
Not Michigan, not even anywhere near Michigan. But if you are a model railroader you might have a connection to this business.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: EMD Questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 777
Re: EMD Questions
Look closely and there are arrows next to engine oil and water. There is also a note on the frame for the air compressor. I'd hazard a guess it's guiding workers who know nothing about locomotives in the general direction where these things were before scrapping started. Years ago I installed two 8,...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: The port of monroe-containers?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2026
Re: The port of monroe-containers?
Proponents of container service on the Great Lakes think there is a market for a cheaper though slower service to bring containers to the Midwest via water. Several years ago they proposed increasing the width and depth of the channel through the Weland Canal so ocean going container ships being obs...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Car Chase Through North Yard Kalamazoo
- Replies: 2
- Views: 593
Car Chase Through North Yard Kalamazoo
They edited out a portion of the video but it looks like the police chased this guy through the old North Yard in Kalamazoo.
https://youtu.be/Pv5mDkYNtt8?si=funsHRLPfoPQdHMA
https://youtu.be/Pv5mDkYNtt8?si=funsHRLPfoPQdHMA
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
The old Air Line southwest of Jackson and a Beech King Air.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
Looks like Dave tracked Pat's photo down. Yes he did. Wabash crossing the Pennsylvania Panhandle line. Looks like Dave tracked Pat's photo down. How about this aerial from 1969. Looks about the same today. Parma MI. Crossed the bridge many times headed to my grand parents house. These used to be a ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
If David leaves from Ferris it is roughly 235 miles south and a bit west. In 1837 or 38 a canal reached the town. The canal route past a couple blocks north of where the diamonds are today though no trace remains. The town derives part of it's name from having been served by the canal. The train is ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
Not that far south, only about 235 miles from you.
A midwestern carrier (still class 1) crossed an eastern carrier (now short line).
A midwestern carrier (still class 1) crossed an eastern carrier (now short line).
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
Not Michigan. A class one crossing a former class one in a city that in the past was twice a transportation center.
Cell phone photo late in the day so a bit of blur.
Cell phone photo late in the day so a bit of blur.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Holland Railfan Meet 7/12/23
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14440
Re: Holland Railfan Meet 7/12/23
Talk - it's that whole 'cant take photos of critical infrastructure' bit that they don't want you doing. The supreme court has ruled, where there is a message and an audience, photography is a form of free speech protected by the first amendment. If you are lawfully in a public space you can photog...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
Correct
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
I think there is enough here to figure out where this is.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Indiana Talk
- Topic: Brinco to cast bolsters in Bristol
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16196
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:26 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: A rant about the gen-z railfanning community
- Replies: 32
- Views: 18450
Re: A rant about the gen-z railfanning community
Oh it's not confined to the young. A couple classics.
https://youtu.be/16kCRTFJr04?si=3psNhyPzWqlR8our
https://youtu.be/pd6maEpbzDg?si=2vBP8a4d6D6nCgp0
https://youtu.be/16kCRTFJr04?si=3psNhyPzWqlR8our
https://youtu.be/pd6maEpbzDg?si=2vBP8a4d6D6nCgp0
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11216
- Views: 2126507
Re: Where Is It?
I'm going to go with Canby St in Port Robinson ON.