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- Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:30 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Railroad Music
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1240
Boxcar Willie! I have everyone of his tapes. I was fisrt introduced to him at age three and by age four I was able to do his Train Whistle wich I can still do today. I remeber going to his concert one year and at the end of a song I particularly liked, I did the whistle. Box stopped, turned around a...
- Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:37 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: LSRC 371
- Replies: 2
- Views: 583
LSRC 371
Just a heads up, 371 just cleard main street in gaylord, south bound with a silver passenger car and a black Lake State passenger Car. Anyone know Whats Up?
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:02 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Holly Subdivision Traffic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 566
Bridge
hey norm, Its been a few months since Ive been down there. what are they doing to the Bridge. Rplacing it or re-enforceing it.?
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:18 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Quarters last moments.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 522
Quarters last moments.
http://railroadfan.com/gallery/displayi ... Share it. I dont know how to put it on the screen so, I put the Url Tag uop. Just cut and Paste.
- Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:49 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Location
- Replies: 1
- Views: 336
Location
Just to let you all know, if your are in Pontiac anytime soon, Stop off at Watkins Lake Rd and Dixie Hwy at the railroad crossing. There is a good place to take pictures of CN trains going into and out of Pontiac. It is a flat piece of ground next to the tracks that provides a good veiw of Two Cross...
- Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:58 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Amtrak #354 struck a Ferndale teen
- Replies: 4
- Views: 825
I was down here in pontiac that night and I heard the radio transmission from the amtrak to the dispatcher. I have to say it has got to be hard on the crews aboard the trains.(you could hear it in the engineers voice). Then to keep the railroad on there feet, they had to worry about how many people ...
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:21 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GTW tri-light signals..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1833
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:15 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Anybody wanna railfan?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1037
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:57 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: OUCH
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1936
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:51 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: OUCH
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1936
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:40 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: 798 in gaylord
- Replies: 2
- Views: 495
798 in gaylord
Dose any body know why the 798 is sitting on the Georgia pacific spur in gaylord. i was there yesterday and there was no body around it. great time to get pictures though.
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:57 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: CN Losing more GM Work
- Replies: 2
- Views: 678
- Fri May 19, 2006 8:51 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Pontiac
- Replies: 1
- Views: 530
Pontiac
Dose any body railfan in Pontiac? I feel like the only one that dose.
- Thu May 18, 2006 7:07 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: CN in pontiac this morning.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 512
CN in pontiac this morning.
Around 9:45 this morning I was down in Pontiac on my way to some relitives, I was stopped by a train headded north to the yard. Probably 100 cars or more. I did not get the number because I was looking for my camera wich I forgot. The train did have quite a few, CN containers in the well cars. thoug...
- Wed May 17, 2006 4:28 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Wich do you like the most?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1067
Wich do you like the most?
Just wondering.
- Wed May 17, 2006 3:41 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: how and where do i find ....
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2095
Go to www.terraserver.microsoft.com. then type in flint. You need to go to the topographic map part and it gives you all the tracks that are in the yard. they are not labeled though. hope it works.
happy railfanning, Bob
happy railfanning, Bob
- Tue May 16, 2006 8:42 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: You might be a rail fan if....
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7373
- Tue May 16, 2006 12:50 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: ship museume opens
- Replies: 2
- Views: 598
BB, the valley Camp is a very interesting museume. I had to film a school project on it in November. The ship offers a great look at what life on the great lakes is like. You get to see the Pilot house, engine room, boiler room, captains quaters, and many more rooms. They also have the original two ...
- Sun May 14, 2006 5:56 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: CCI Warns Against Riding Rail Cars
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1165
- Sun May 14, 2006 2:49 pm
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: Holly Sub.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3308
Holly Sub.
Dose any one know of anything new with CN's Holly sub. particularly between Pontiac and Holly? Thanks
Happy railfanning, Bob.
Happy railfanning, Bob.