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J T wrote:

MQT1223 wrote: Is this train running like a standard train? Morning departure still like normal?

Check the link Jochs posted above. It contains answers to both of your questions.

Looks like I am getting up early. Too bad Grandville doesn't have a depot to stop at anymore.

While it is unfortunate, if it is true, it is not like we couldn't see it coming. The car accident last year was likely the last straw. Nothing to see here folks, just more insurance companies raining on the parade. There was a car accident involving one of the locomotives? Or just an excursion tra...

C'mon down to the West Michigan Model Railroad Club's annual train show on admin edit: Sunday December 7 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Less then $5 per person to get in the door (don't remember the exact price). Tables are $20 dollars for an advanced reservation and $25 on the day of the show. Vendors from ...

Super Chief wrote:Due into Elkhart the 16th. Same as last two years. Overnite thru Illinois then Gdlk up to GR. It's the Red Train this year.

What time does it usually get around the Wayland area? Do they come north from Elkhart on the 16th or 17th? Would like to set up somewhere in Wyoming to catch this train.

Better late than never I guess... You talking about the celebration around the 30 years of the train, or how the train performs itself? I suppose it is both! :lol: :roll: Is this train running like a standard train? Morning departure still like normal? I would like to catch something interesting go...

Sounds like the Iowa Interstate is getting rid of the QJ's they have had for just shy of 10 years. Henry Posner, the chairmen of the Iowa Interstate has said the QJ's have became an increasing liability and a distraction to business operations. Doesn't sound like he hated having the QJ's but apparen...

Yeah I found it in the general area of the northern edge of the building with the white roof. That is a longer distance then one might think from 44th. Its more like two miles from the Wentworth crossing. Incorrect. From the spot you are saying you found it along the ROW to where the Wentworth cros...

Raildudes dad wrote:Measures 75 feet on Kent County Geospatial

Wow that is small.

Good luck. Photos of that line are pretty scarce. I'd love to see a shot of a train on the swing bridge over the Grand River near Indian Mounds Rd, but I'm afraid no old timer has a pic of that. And seeing how easy that shoreline was to access from Indian Mounds Rd, and that bridge runs north-south...

Couple shots from the gallery of the turntable. I walked around it once, with permission. Had lots of debris in the pit. http://railroadfan.com/gallery/albums/michigan/gre/thumb_gre11.jpg http://railroadfan.com/gallery/albums/michigan/gre/thumb_gre10.jpg How big do you think that table is? looks if...

Does anyone know if a small rural station or stop used to exist by 44th street? I have a whistle post that I saved from the woods behind the wedgewood apartments. It was pulled out of the ground and broke in half. I saved the top portion and restored it, but it was located roughly a 1/4 to 1/2 mile...

Does anyone know if a small rural station or stop used to exist by 44th street? I have a whistle post that I saved from the woods behind the wedgewood apartments. It was pulled out of the ground and broke in half. I saved the top portion and restored it, but it was located roughly a 1/4 to 1/2 mile...

The 1009 is owned my Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT, who also owns N&W 611, 1218 and 1776). It was involved in a flood back before the Museum moved to it's current location. Word has it that when N&W 611 gets back on the road Wabash 1009 will take her place at the Museum. This was a cosmeti...

Bidding has opened for the locomotives. Bidding ends on August 8th. https://www.cn.ca/-/media/Files/About%20CN/Surplus-Assets/Locomotive-2014-Sale-Tender-EN.pdf I hope they end up at good homes and not scrapped. The paint schemes on those E units was in my opinion the best paint scheme IC ever did....

Does anyone know if a small rural station or stop used to exist by 44th street? I have a whistle post that I saved from the woods behind the wedgewood apartments. It was pulled out of the ground and broke in half. I saved the top portion and restored it, but it was located roughly a 1/4 to 1/2 mile ...

I thought the turntable that is still there was the old NYC table and it hasn't worked in years. I believe Conrail finally bolted it in position rather than repair it. The PRR's turntable was further south. Back in the late 70's you could still see part of the old NYC roundhouse on the east side of...

Bulby wrote:

AARR wrote:Is that one of those RS1325's or something like that?

Yes, former C&IM 30, now I&M 30

That thing looks like a Genset's grandfather.

SD80MAC wrote:It's a turntable all right, still there but I would guess it hasn't moved in years. Rails are bolted on both ends.

Who put it in? Did the PC put it in after the facilities in the downtown area were demolished? What good is a turntable with the ends bolted together?

So I was looking at the Grand Elk yard in Grand Rapids on Google Maps the other day and I saw what looks like a turntable near the diesel shops. Is there a small turntable in the yard or is it something else? If its a turntable when was it put there?

So for my first post on here I am going to as about something close to home. Anybody got any pictures of trains on the old LS&MS line that ran between Grand Rapids and Otsego, the portion that is abandoned and part of the Kent Trails? I am particularly looking for anything from Allegan north to Gran...