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I'm just south of m-59, just off of Livingston rd. the tracks are about 100 feet from the house. My backyard butts up against the line right at the south end of Clyde siding. I know lately there has been a coal train late sunday night, but last night there wasn't. I figured there wasn't a set schedu...

Does anybody know what the schedule is for the coal trains that are on the Saginaw Sub.?

Yea, I figured it out after a couple of tries...

Here's the one I sent to Zack, I had a couple dozen 50 sheet pads of these made up at the printer.

Mike, it's all hit and miss. You also need the right amount of flash. Be careful or you'll end up over-exposing your film and the photos will be dark. You need to find the right combination of f-stop (aperture) and shutter speed and that takes patience. If you're shooting black and white, you can al...

I'm sure you guys know about this already, but I just found it. You can listen to the airwaves from a bunch of places, including Fostoria, OH and Fort Wayne, IN

http://www.railroadradio.net/index.php


Sorry, just realized this should be in the Railfanning Information Forum

Zack, not sure if it will help you or not, but I have a form that I was able to use from the late Gary J. Benson's book "The Art of Railroad Photography" I can send you a scan of it if you want.

I'm not sure, all I know is that there is a single auto ramp just south of the Coldwater Rd. bridge and it looks like that's the only spot they're loading them. The TDSI lot looks though as if it's only new trucks. I do see autoracks going north and coming south and I always wondered why they were s...

If you didn't know already, that would be UP's Bailey Yard. Biggest Classification Yard in the world.

Best time to be in Durand is at night during the summer.

Hi to everyone here! I'm new! Glad to be here! I know TDSI has a place in Flint on Coldwater Rd. on the old Delphi site, Coldwater Rd. crosses the north end of CSX's Flint Yard and TDSI sits up on a small hill almost and it appears that they drive the vehicles across the road and then down to the ya...