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Looks like a picked a dud location; I figured someone would noticed the distinct border monument Noticing it and realizing that it's a border monument are 2 different things. However, I've noticed that sometimes the people to whom something is immediately obvious don't see the image for a couple da...

That old eyesore was coming down on its own anyway, but the west wall was on top of the parking lot/access road CSX uses to get to the old PH&D yard to the west of the roundhouse. It was bad enough when a wire fell over that access path last year, chunks of roundhouse wall falling/lying in the parki...

Is that Muskegon, with US 31 passing under the bridge?

~Z~ wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:59 pm

Where be it? Sorry AARR, it's not a former spur into an industrial area, but at least it's not interurban this time. Well, i guess part of it turned into a spur further ahead in the photo, but still

Is it in Lapeer, on the Lapeer Industrial? Not in Lansing which is in the 517. It's in the 269, 810, or 586. It's on one of the railroads that has trackage in Lansing. The hints above will narrow it down to which two railroads it could be, and the area code will narrow it down to which railroad.

If you're interested in the history of the location ITM is planning to go, visit the Indiana Railroads message board and do a search for the Eel River, or Logansport & Eel River. There's some really interesting history behind that location and why what's there today is still there today.

justalurker66 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:03 pm

Here?
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/recor ... 96009f--45

The west end of the trail is about as far east as the railroad goes. The trail itself is nice enough, but didn't connect to anything on the east end when we biked it several years ago.

According to them, they're moving to the Logansport & Eel River Railroad property. This is what's left of the Eel River line, and runs from the west side of town into downtown. The outside connection runs down the east side of Cole Hardwood plant to the TP&W connection. IIRC, this would have been th...

Unless they've completely transformed the site in the past year or so, ITM's new location in Logansport isn't capable of hosting much, let alone a large steam locomotive. Getting that large steam locomotive into the site would be a challenge as well, considering the single outside connection they ha...

Who would even be a good potential new operator? Progressive Rail? Watco? New outfit? I doubt CSX would want those lines back... (Just playing the "What If?" Game...) Possibly Lake State. They've attempted to add other operations away from the Plymouth-Alpena/Gaylord line. Back when North Judson (I...

I'm a teenager but I'm getting old because i remember nkp 765 conrail and the gmtx on glc long ago It hasn't been that long since 765 ran on the GLC. Definitely less than 7 years ago. "Long ago" is a term better suited for when the oldest archived posts on this site were first written. :twisted: 20...

If 2011 is the first pic and it’s an engine from his childhood then I must be getting old... I'm a teenager but I'm getting old because i remember nkp 765 conrail and the gmtx on glc long ago It hasn't been that long since 765 ran on the GLC. Definitely less than 7 years ago. "Long ago" is a term b...

Dan Cluley wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:24 pm

KC8RBK wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:04 pm

eb rack train with 2 cn by 205 at 1400

5716 & 2652
Through Lansing at 14:22

Into the tunnel to Canada about 5:23 pm. By the time they got to Port Huron they had a lot of general freight cars behind the autoracks.

Near Lake Odessa?

I think the one in the first picture (which is physically south of the BW Bridges) is for movements going north. The second picture was taken on the north side of the bridges and looks like it's for movements going south (leaving Dunn). I don't think Dunn has more than half a dozen car spots total, ...

DaveO wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:35 am

Possibly river navigation lights?

I just added pictures to the post. I don't think these are for traffic on the river.

Even though I live in the area, I haven't gone down to the park area along the St Clair River in the vicinity of the Blue Water Bridge in at least a couple months. I happened to be down there last night and was shocked to see what appears to be a pair of brand new signals on either side of the Thoma...

Those are buffer cars for the tankcars. They tend to have the same set of cars way too frequently for anything to be traveling back and forth between a supplier and a receiver. They seem to have several 2 bay covered hoppers, plus the two 3 bay covered hoppers in the second picture. They also have u...

DaveO wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:47 am

The Ontario Northland isn't owned by CN.

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:54 am

Also, why would CN paint a unit for Ontario Northland, which has never been owned by CN?

My bad. I had the impression that they had acquired it in the late 2000's. I have no idea where I'd gotten that idea...

rah rah rah

Go CN!

rah rah rah

Burr Oak Street in Albion.