Where Is It?

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From the satellite view it looks like Weyerhaeuser is an important shipper. There's an elevator in town. A spur to a lumber yard. But tank cars are packed on nearly every available open spur and passing siding.
Mark F wrote:
Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:39 pm
Tracks in town being abandoned in favor of an suburban industrial park.
Article in Trains Magazine Newswire if you have access:
https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2 ... ail-trail.
BNSF takeover story here:
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/04/03/b ... kalispell/
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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AARR wrote:
Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:59 am
From the satellite view it looks like Weyerhaeuser is an important shipper. There's an elevator in town. A spur to a lumber yard. But tank cars are packed on nearly every available open spur and passing siding.
Mark F wrote:
Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:39 pm
Tracks in town being abandoned in favor of an suburban industrial park.
Article in Trains Magazine Newswire if you have access:
https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2 ... ail-trail.
BNSF takeover story here:
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/04/03/b ... kalispell/
On Thursday; 9/24 the local to Kalispell had mostly boxcars, a few tanks, and 2 centerbeams.

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Where be it? Little hard to see, but there's a switch just a little ways down the track in this photo.
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Holland? Branch line to Heinz?
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Where be it? Little hard to see, but there's a switch just a little ways down the track in this photo.
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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AARR wrote:
Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:35 pm
Holland? Branch line to Heinz?
~Z~ wrote:
Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:46 pm
Where be it? Little hard to see, but there's a switch just a little ways down the track in this photo.
Holland? If not, more hints please.

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AARR wrote:
Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:35 pm
Holland? Branch line to Heinz?
~Z~ wrote:
Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:46 pm
Where be it? Little hard to see, but there's a switch just a little ways down the track in this photo.
Not Holland and not on CSX, so there's a clue, not CSX :) In Michigan, as usual.
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~Z~ wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:29 am
AARR wrote:
Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:35 pm
Holland? Branch line to Heinz?
~Z~ wrote:
Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:46 pm
Where be it? Little hard to see, but there's a switch just a little ways down the track in this photo.
Not Holland and not on CSX, so there's a clue, not CSX :) In Michigan, as usual.
On the Michigan Shore RR in Muskegon.

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railrod1949 wrote:
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On the Michigan Shore RR in Muskegon.
Not on michigan shore. it's south of Muskegon.
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West Michigan RR in Hartford. Looking toward the interchange with CSX.
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AARR wrote:
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West Michigan RR in Hartford. Looking toward the interchange with CSX.
Noppers.. not within 30 miles of any CSX trackage either.
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~Z~ wrote:
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AARR wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:10 pm
West Michigan RR in Hartford. Looking toward the interchange with CSX.
Noppers.. not within 30 miles of any CSX trackage either.

White Pigeon, MI?

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Or maybe Three Rivers?
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Noppers.. not within 30 miles of any CSX trackage either.
White Pigeon, MI?
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Not three rivers or constantine. Try east of there.
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~Z~ wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:07 pm
Not three rivers or constantine. Try east of there.
Sturgis, Coldwater ,Quincy, Jonesville or Hillsdale?

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railrod1949 wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:49 pm
Sturgis, Coldwater ,Quincy, Jonesville or Hillsdale?
Go north one railroad line from all of those cities and you'll be "on the right track."
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Burr Oak Street in Albion.
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Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:42 pm
Burr Oak Street in Albion.
Boom, GLR swoops in and steals it. Correcto.
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GreatLakesRailfan wrote:
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Burr Oak Street in Albion.
Boom, GLR swoops in and steals it. Correcto.
Yes, it's Burr Oak Street looking northeast along the spur line to Knauf Insulations (which is the only rail customer in Albion) at southwest corner of N. Clark and E North streets in Albion, Calhoun County. That spur was part of the old LS&MS, later old New York central, later Penn central, now NS. It was the same trackage that cross I-94 expressway at grade northeast of Albion until its abandoned August 30, 1968. The only remaining rail customer on that trackage
was the Springport Elevator which is north off M-99 in Springport, about 10 miles north of Albion. The final run of the remaining passenger trains on the old LS&MS Lansing Branch between between North Lansing and Hillsdale, was in 1933, It was the mixed trains 64/65.

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Hi 1949, for other Albion customers see if these companies are shipping by rail. American Colloid (inbound clay), The Anderson's (inbound fertilizer and outbound DDG, ethanol & grain), Continental Carbonic Products (outbound carbonic from ethanol plant) and Georgia-Pacific (inbound cardboard stock).
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(which is the only rail customer in Albion)
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AARR wrote:
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Hi 1949, for other Albion customers see if these companies are shipping by rail. American Colloid (inbound clay), The Anderson's (inbound fertilizer and outbound DDG, ethanol & grain), Continental Carbonic Products (outbound carbonic from ethanol plant) and Georgia-Pacific (inbound cardboard stock).
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(which is the only rail customer in Albion)
Hi AARR, The four other Albion customers you mentioned all currently have active rail service, American Colloid on Austin Avenue aka M-199 in Albion. The Anderson's Ethanol and Grain and the Continental Products both on B Drive N west off M-199 in Sheridan Township, west of Albion. And the Albion Georgia Pacific on Burstein Drive also west off M-199 in Albion.
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