Good location for Lake State Railway from my experience is Flint. If you park at Court Street, you'll be near the Kearsley Diamond which offers some good CN action as well. There is a daily Lake State local that transfers on to the CN Flint sub to work Bristol yard. They tend to head west in the mo...
I hope you don't mind a slow predictable pace of train action, but the answer is 6 or 8. For Amtrak check whatever day you're going with Amtrak's track a train or tickets. Trains get through Ypsi either 10 mins before arriving in ARB westbound or about 10 minutes after departing EB. M-Th this summe...
The east side of the crossing on Pleasant St between the Detroit Line / Conrail Bridge Leads and the Marsh Track may be better for sitting. Better angle of trains coming off the Junction Runner as well as lighting, and more room to park. Sitting in the "warehouse" parking lot on the west side of the...
Q304/305 went away in 2008 during the recession. They were formerly original Conrail STTO/TOST. Q233/234 came in late 2010 when NS lost the Chrysler Hicube business to CSX. Then were cut back to Walbridge in 2013 when Hicube business switched back to NS. D717 ran flatcars with frames for the Dodge R...
VIA 73 arrives from Toronto. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53584780545_7883e6c623_c.jpg VIA 73 - Windsor, Ontario by tcamp7837 , on Flickr After getting an Approach Signal from CN at George, they shoved back to the Jefferson Wye to turn the train around for the run back to Toronto as VIA 78. h...