RailRoadFan.com

The Air Line was taken out 1937. Traveling M-60 you can see the roadbed real well. When you get to AL Jones road west of Three Rivers you are on the ROW eastbound into town. At that same road westbound is where the original roadbed is observed under the power lines. MDOT used the actual roadbed east...

Niles was a busy place. The line from Cassopolis followed M-60 then curved northwest into the yard, you had the Notre Dame branch which ran down a street behind the Taco Bell and joined the main at the depot ( the Amtrak maintence building now). Also the Big 4 from Goshen thru Granger going under th...

Just for info, back by the silos is where the Jackson to Niles line crossed. Just east of Three Rivers was where they diverted to Elkhart later.

You can thank NYC for the good track to Mackinac thru Gaylord. Mainline 135# rail and ballasted. They did do the primary routes to that standard.

Well the A2TC group (passenger group) will benefit too from the rail maintenance. The one thread almost makes one wonder if the casino out by Williamsburg is going to have a loading area too. Don't the tracks go on the backside of their parking lot? It's win win for freight and passenger if God forb...

Just remember TC MAN you and I are paying for the new Manistee River bridge and rail work in the TC area. LSRC has an impressive sales lady who did wonders upon Grand Elks start-up in Kalamazoo back in 2009. LSRC has benefitted from her and doesn't have MDOT paying for their ROW maintenance. Yes the...

This whole start-up proposal begs some questions. Is SRI involved with this project even remotely? Were the 2 Amtrak domes bought to supplement this consist? Would this be a revenue stream since the embezzlement, no polar express etc? Are the MDOT Burlington cars involved? Just what equipment did th...

Where you saw the bike rack in Petoskey sections of rail were removed and a sign stated and was in the middle of the roadbed "End of MDOT ownership." The city wanted the park space but not in front of the depot to the bumping post.

Hard to believe as this was my home town 2 active former main lines their polishing with that geeps wheels. The Old Road and the GR&I fishing line. 8 Penn Central F units use to meet every week day there. Grand Rapids to Ft. Wayne with a train swap there in Sturgis every afternoon. RK tower sat at t...

Petoskey took the tracks out downtown couldn't wait to call it a green space. You'll end up stopping out at the Salvation Army store as the bridge at Bear River needs work. Sorry but the A2TC committee hasn't kept up with reality?

Yes. All the caboose spots are sold out. Seats still available for all other cars.

LITTLE RIVER RAILROAD 110 is under steam again. All rebuilt and ready to go. Test fired this past week and run down the shop track.

Is that wht 3008 and mates were tied up in Grant on Sunday. Or do they always tie up there? Made for a colorful fall scene coming down M-37.

The above mentioned car will be joining the Little River Railroad on excursions in the near future. After residing in a warehouse in Pennsylvania she will be forwarded to Valparaiso In. for prep work and forwarded to Coldwater. She is an observation car and has her own Facebook group.

Grand Elk 4017 & 4002 pulled empty stone train back to Elkhart this afternoon with the NS power in tow.

Sunday night as we worked an accident on 131, a 3 unit GDLK train went by southbound. The red HCLX unit was leading what appeared to be 2 other 4 axle units. If 1 was 3534 then she got out of town at midnight. This was at CP Park.

Once a paper mill closes now it usually is the end of the line for it. White Piegon and the 4 other Graphic Packaging mills that the new Kalamazoo mill will replace will close as they call it in the board room Capacity Neutral. Only the newest and more efficient paper machines are kept running at th...

Somebody on Facebook reported that 7030 & 3534 were being sold and moved? Any reliable info on this?

This morning on Virtual Railfan about 8:48am a merchandise train with 2 BNSF units went by the museum on track 3. Engines were past Prairie St. overpass and east of Main St. Came to a total stop. Sat for a long while and backed up into the yard Assumed they had to wait for rear end protection to mak...

Mlive showing considerable damage to trees and south wall of depot collapsing on the depot grounds at Pennsylvania Square in downtown Petosky. Storms that rolled thru that area last night and today. Its an attorneys office of late. Hope the Perry Hotel fared better across the street.