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well I just dug up some of my dads old train pictures, and I found smoe good ones, Some BN trains from out west, and some awesome old pics from Ypsi. An AMtrak f40PH with baggage car, an F40PH, and some pics from just after conrail took out the second track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwBEqu6rPZ...

So I did some digging for all interested, and found some info in this old fourm: from, redside20: The article on mlive said that the plant is located along I94 in that city, are any railroad tracks near there? here is the link http://www.annarbor.com/business-review ... lant-sold/ NYC3001: The forme...

Does ant one have any pictures/ video of Conrail/NS(?) or Penn Central(???) running on the side of the street on N. Lincoln street headed to or from the visteion plant? I know the plant is now closed, and the track are now torn up, but I was wondering if any one had some pictures of this because I w...

I noticed that every time I drive by the ford wayne plant that they are only loading auto racks on the east side of the plant, and not the west. I was wondering, when was the last time that they used the west loading area?

Today, I called 1-800-usa-rail to check up on amtrak 353, and all Julie could tell me was "service disruption". nothing came by until 2:40 when a P42 ran east light through Ypsilanti... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Osv18mWIuY I think that this unit was to rescue train 353, but I am not sure. Anyo...

I was looking at Google maps, and I saw in Pontaic that there was a small yard near the amtrak station, what kind of activity goes on here?

Where are they going to store the train set when it is not running?

YpsiAmtrakBoy wrote: This is eather a result of Rail America, or just standard replacement. Ok im lost, what does any of this have to do with Rail America? Rail America has NO trackage in AA. I think Ypsi's inferring that the track work might be because of the rumored Rail America takeover. They mi...

at 11:01 on Thursday, I caught this Union Pacific leading a strange train heading east, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wERQdaxBsNE, Dose anyone know what this train was for?

GP30M4216 wrote: PS - Also, every recent Michigan Line Amtrak I've seen has had one Genesis on each end....where have all the F40 cabs gone?

I know that 90219 was on those new Kalamazoo Chicago trains that amtrak tried out I also think that 90222 was on the second train set for the Kalamazoo Chicago train

I drove over the Ann Arbor railroads crossing at warner rd in Saline, and a front end loader was sitting near a pile of fresh ballast. Some ballast had already been put out on the tracks, but was not spread yet. This is eather a result of Rail America, or just standard replacement. When it is done i...

I was planning on trying to catch the ann arbor railroad on saturday, but I am not sure what times that the Annie runs at. Can anyone help me out?

nssd70m-2 wrote:It would be alot more helpful if you could post this in the "NS updates" section under "train location updates".

I will do so in the future, sorry

early this morning, I was awoken by a train horn that sounded like a conrail. I got to a window to see indeed a conrail but not just any conrail, an opperation lifesaver painted conrail! one on three! then it kept getting better, a NS gp38-2 followed the conrail, then an NS paint opperation life sav...

On thursday, Amtrak wolverine train 352 arrived into Ann Arbor at 9:30, it did not depart until about 10:35. I was wondering, why did they have to take such a long stop? And today amtrak wolverine 352 had 2 cafe/ business cars, why would it need 2 cafe cars, this has happend at least one other time.

Has anyone seen Amtrak 90230, the cascade NPCU? I have not seen it in over a year. Has Amtrak sent it back to Cascades services, or is it still floating around the midwest?

nssd70m-2 wrote:The last update said that they were going to lease the loco's.

I read on a websit that the engines wer suposed to come in of the 5th of march