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The Williamsburg branch is intact as it completes a run around siding with a lead track beyond the last switch. There is also a small transload building on the runaround track that TSBY last served a short time for potato loading into insulated box cars. Currently owned by a farmers group. google a...

instead of torpedo tubes it has depth charges

AARR wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:39 am

Is this where a Terra Fertilizer dealer used to be locked?

sheets lp per older street view

atcs monitor showing the south side at durand occupied. any ideas what they stuck in there?

went in search of tier 4 demos and voila.
it's for a lighted number board.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/19531332@N03/15219986478

is that bump on the rear end top of 3060 to allow a lighted number board or just something else?
it's hard to find pictures of the rear of engines. got to get that perfect roster shot thing.

AARR wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:05 pm

chapmaja wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:52 pm

Also, did the DT&I have arches built all the way down to Carleton? Alongside the mainline there appear to be bases for what appear to be arches spaced regularly along the line.

I thought it was just the Dearborn Branch.

yep, flat rock to dearborn

chapmaja wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:18 pm

Where was P Company Jct located?

its by the dearborn schools bus yard on maple

using topo maps for elevation and google maps to measure distance, i get about 1.5% westbound up to gratiot.
steep but manageable considering it's an industrial spur and it would be empties heading uphill.
edit: the steep grade is also very short.

from track chart steepest grades on holly sub
big beaver mile 19 to opdyke mile 22 .65%
opydyke 22 to square lake 23 .61%
square lake 23 to yellow cab 24 .67%

long time ago there was a bank of 6 payphones next to the curb in the d.
all nearby businesses and homes were slightly uninhabitable.
bus aide who lived in the d couldn't figure out why.
drug dealing in the days before portable devices.

Not only did the Hamilton Northwestern run they may have brought in 3 covered hoppers for the Endeavor facility in Hamilton Michigan. Note: The Endeavor facility now has a rail car mover on the property. I’m not exactly sure how long it’s been here. AC5A83A6-BE09-4DE8-9AC3-94AE851C807C.jpeg there's...

not gr&i but b&m telephone box pictures
the top hardware would be for anchoring the line to the telephone/code line
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/archite ... ple-scales

looks like the bridge approach could use a bit of surfacing

somebody with foresight in the D. that's awesome.

if you know how to use lidar, it's possible that some of the old grade would be revealed.
i tried and failed though.

Meints documented it
from petersburg jct n along teal
then n 500' e of forrest and then along e side of elizabeth
slight nnw turn from ida
then n just west of cutoff river loop
then ne

AARR wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:08 am

I agree with Chip

Chip wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:55 am

Packard plant

I don't
i don't think the packard plant has had intact windows for many years

so in other words second hand information.
basically a rumor.

Chip wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:27 pm

Where is Rodney?

trenton former site of fn tower