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Curious if the Coopersville and Marne is still running Freight to a Lumberyard in Walker? or did the GRE take it back? Also curious as to what was shipped by rail to/from Continental dairy in Coopersville. Saw they had a spur going into their building on Google maps.

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Don’t need physical online buildings to Transload rail cars. Plenty of opportunities on the CHS. There absolutely is potential. Was down that way a few days ago doing some Rail contracting sales pitches to the elevators and other businesses nearby, long story short most want rail service, but the c...

Curious to who got the contract to build it. Did a few sales pitches to Padnos hoping to land it.

A publicly funded organization has been created to protect the White Pine subdivision in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/10/11/houghton-county-joins-newly-formed-snowbelt-transit-commission/ Isn't white pine copper refinery still receiving rail service in white...

Also heard from my sources in GLC that there was a mdot approved project in Howell as well, but didn't go into detail. Not sure if anyone else has heard anything about that.

Fowlerville - Asahi Kasei Plastics - 45 cars on the tracks. How many are simply used as storage and how many do they normally get in and out? All of the cars are "in service", but there are some definitely being stored on site awaiting unloading. They are also super particular about what spot each ...

Mineral Range is hiring a conductor/engineer and LSI is hiring a carman as of June 30 2023.

However I have done track work for a few customers of GLC and and most didn't have good things to say about them. I know one of the conductors with SRI and he doesn’t have very many kind words for GLC either. He’s praying the rumors of WATCO buying them are true. I believe they already own half of ...

Sure there are, I specifically mentioned "in the county ", not country. I feel that as taxpayers, we're supporting this business. Heck, we are paying for the weed spraying they just did on this section that was only done this year so far for this operation. Grawn is not TC, it's 10 miles from TC pr...

Just wish the Tecumseh Branch still was connected to the NS or A&B

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Is the former sweet line still privately owned or by the state?

A few years ago CN approached some Michigan shortlines about purchasing the Orion Sub from the bridge over Dixie Highway to the GM plant. The theory was that a shortline could operate it cheaper than CN and thus lower shipping rates and maybe get back the GM Orion Plant business for CN to long-haul...

"When Brown bought it I heard that he eventually made his money selling the line to the local governments for a trail." I'm pretty sure Brown purchased with the intent of selling it to become a rail/trail, not to keep it running as a railroad operation. At least that's what I recall of the discussi...

You can always try an alternative such as Rumble, GabTV, or odysee. Not as many content creators on them. Have a non railfan friend that had no success on Youtube, but had much success on Gabtv and Rumble.