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FCA (Jeep) from Ottawa Yard. Libbey Glass on one of the two leased NS (former W&LE) lines gets raw material for glass production. The alfalfa mill and one or two other warehouses (paper when the Toledo Blade was printed in Toledo; not sure what is there now) on the north bank of the Maumee River are...

About 5.5 miles. https://www.stb.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/9855c1fb354da09b85257f1f000b5f79/58f1c0902e47c1728525801900540826?OpenDocument Technically not an abandonment but rather a discontinuance of service between the far east end of the industrial park in Napoleon, just before the US24/6 grad...

Lake Township trustees voted to turn down the offer of $25,000 from CSX to close the Walbridge Road grade crossing. One of the township trustees is a CSX retiree, and in his opinion CSX will eventually close Stanley Yard completely. In that case the township would like to pursue development of an in...

CSX recently offered Lake Township $25,000 if it would agree to permanently close the Walbridge Road crossing. This is the grade crossing at the throat of Stanley Yard, between East Broadway and Tracy Roads. In 2010 Lake Township trustees rejected a $10,000 offer from CSX to permanently close this c...

I wonder when Central Grocery left... CG was part of the Farah-Khouri chain of supermarkets in Flint and environs. I don't know when their warehouse on Corunna Road closed. My brother said working there was by far the best of the several summer college jobs he held. Unloading boxcars was hard work, ...

Thanks for sharing this, Steve B. About two years after this photograph was taken one of those warehouses on the "new" C&O main became the home of a business that was owned by my uncle. He bought the warehouse specifically because he wanted rail access. His business wasn't a big user of rail service...

Good post, chapmaja. You are correct, big picture-wise the winding down of Flint's industrial base was the ultimate reason much of the railroad infrastructure that served it was no longer needed. If you drive down Second Street towards downtown Flint from the west, you may see a large wooden sign (i...

Why did Flint force the railroads out of downtown? 1. For the same reason Plymouth or any city would do so today if it could, ie to rid itself of traffic congestion caused by slow moving trains. 2. A concept that was popular in the 1960's and 1970's. It was called urban renewal. Retail began leaving...

W&LE was switching a long string of frack sand cars in Lang when I passed by there today.

What is the origin and destination of these cars?

Holy Toledo, Steve B. That is outstanding material you pulled together. As for pictures of Flint area railroading, they do not seem to exist in abundance. Why weren't more pictures taken? I don't know for sure. But I have a theory, which I will expound upon in the next paragraph. I recall being chas...

Lumber and sand seem to be dominant as you said, AARR.

Steve B is the go to guy on this board for all things Flint railroading (and other locations as well). Growing up I lived within a short bike ride of the old GTW main through downtown, so much greater familiarity with that line. The old GTW main through downtown Flint crossed the old PM main east of...

With the shift of the DTE coal contract to NS, Lang Yard is considerably more empty these days. This does often make for good views of the W&LE when they are in town. When I passed by earlier this week I saw this http://www.nsdash9.com/WEroster/WE7001.html I could almost smell the new paint

My old stomping grounds, a long time ago. I saw more of the old GTW main than the old CSX main through Flint. That said the last activity I recall on the Kearsley St remnant noted by Steve B before I left the area was a couple of boxcars sitting on the Atlas Warehouse lead, which branched off the fo...

This Memorandum of Understanding was included in today's online edition of the Toledo Blade: http://www.toledoblade.com/attachment/2 ... nt-pdf.pdf

AA's lease is of the Cherry Street Branch and the Galena Yard Track. About four miles total. Customers include the Libbey Glass factory, plus whatever is left on the track that runs parallel to and on the north side of the Maumee River. There is an alfalfa mill down there, and the Toledo Blade used ...

Interesting thread. I didn't know ADBF did any interchange at Riga. I thought everything was taken to Adrian. Riga interchange certainly makes sense, though. When we rode the LCRC just days away from their closure in September, 1990 the LCRC job that used the S-2 #2 that day (#3 had a bad main gener...

IHRC surely didn't do the line any favors during the time it was under their ownership, which was about seven years. MAW owned and operated it for twice as long, and although they did work with the ORDC for grants and loans, they weren't exactly meticulous when it came to maintenance, either. As JoJ...

Concur with bdconrail29. When I was young we pulled a number of all nighters at the Oak Harbor location he references. Can't/don't want to do that anymore, though.

I neither agree nor disagree with your position. But I will point out that this is an editorial, as opposed to an article.