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RIP Bob Barker, age 99.

Remember, help control the pet population by having your pet spayed or neutered.

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Jochs wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:30 pm

Former WWE champion BrayWyatt has died at the age of 36.
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I can't put a space in the name or I get Bray Y@.

This on the heels of Terry Funk dying Yesterday

Is it in a group? That could be why.

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Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:10 pm

I recently posted a series of photos of chasing a train on this line from 15 years ago:

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Says broken link when I open it

I recall CN car shop staff at Gladstone telling me that the ex CNW ore cars over 50 years old were banned from interchange and were subject to a more rigorous inspection program and frequent oversight from FRA. IIRC the FRA inspector was on the property weekly. I have a friend who just started at t...

How much of GLC is still stick rail? It’s weird to me seeing such modern locos on stick rail.

What standards/qualifications does a car need to meet at 50 years old? I still see cars built in the 60's or old MOW equipment built in the 40's on Class 1's. IIRC a couple of CB&Q 40 foot boxcars lasted until a couple years ago in BNSF MOW service. Does the rule just prevent interchange between ra...

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Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:48 am

Marquette Rail Z151 was heard in GR around 11:25am

It’s a little hard to follow in this thread because it follows so many railroads so forgive my laziness here, is Z151 a daily M-F train?

I’m a few days late on this but the work has been completed and the road is reopened. There’s a shiny new crossing signal, something that was never there in the McLouth days, complete with a good old fashioned signal bell, not an e-bell. Couldn’t get a picture since I was driving. Now to figure out ...

IORY departing Flat Rock

3488 and 2489 leading a long train. 70 cars. Mostly loaded center beams and scrap gons with a few tanks and covered hoppers mixed in. 2 of those tankers were labeled liquified carbon dioxide.

RIP Detroit Tigers radio color commentator Jim Price. Loved listening to his colorful “Jim-isms”.

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Downriver area? https://i.imgur.io/f2akXCO_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium Petoskey! yep. Hoping to catch GLC while I’m up here but I doubt it since I’m leaving Wednesday morning and they don’t seem to come out this way more than 2-3 times a month and that might be an overestimate.

Any chance they make a Petoskey run tomorrow or Tuesday?

If you living in Big Rapids you should check out the Marquette RR in Baldwin that line runs from GR north to Manistee and serves some 19 industries along the way... Agreed, since he's only about 20 miles or so from MQT where the tracks run along M-37. 4 miles south of Brohman, just south of 5 Mile ...

RIP Paul Reubens, BKA Pee-Wee Herman, dead at 70 after a brief battle with Cancer

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Singer Sinéad O’Connor dead at 56

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Not on Lake state On Great Lake Central RR. Now that you say this, I feel like this is somewhere up near TC. I feel like I was just driving by this spot last year on my way to Glen Arbor from East Jordan but I can’t place it. Could be near Petoskey too, in fact I’m leaning in that direction.

Lake State in Gaylord?

Singer Tony Bennett dead at 96

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