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Are you referring to only the trackage from the north side of Muskegon up to Montague? For a time the line south of Muskegon was technically also part of the Montague Sub.

These consultants are tax money parasites. How many hundreds of thousands will go to that swindler to regurgitate Ann Arbor to “up north” traffic figures, and decide there’s potential for reestablishing rail to the Straits which will require further study?

The strategy where a railroad requires “minimal maintenance capital” is called “deferred maintenance”.

There's going to be a bigger hit for the local trucking companies that ship and store this product. P&P, CMS and some mom and pop local drivers had a lot of outbound loads as the trailers sitting outside attested to. Most likely LC Howard will be going gang busters once the new plant is done. So ho...

Doktor No wrote:https://www.flickr.com/photos/45043432@ ... otostream/

The switch stand is right about where the W is on the D&RGW boxcar.
And yes, a ton of pics here to keep one busy for awhile.

Wow, great pics there Dok! Thanks for sharing.

Wasn't the track Michigan National Storage is on (Godfrey Mill Spur?) jointly operated by C&O and Conrail? Wonder if Conrail ever accessed it via the C&O after the Plaster Mill Track was abandoned. Could Grand Elk be entitled to serve customers on that spur, and have an arrangement with CSX to do th...

Unit grain trains through Kalamazoo again, interesting! Any idea about how often these trains run?

Caught the westbound NS freight at Ypsilanti at 725am this morning, ~29 cars with a pair of SD40-2s. First time I've caught a freight in Ypsi in probly 6 or 7 years.

After American Axle bought it all that went dormant with just in time rolling down M-60 & I-94 to points east. I have a picture I took around 1995 showing a few covered hoppers inside the gate there. I guessed they were plastic pellets for American Axle but I don't know whether they did any injecti...

Perhaps PM would have taken over a shorter line to reach southward, like GTW did. A pairing of PM with Monon or DT&I may have made sense. Or eastward from Buffalo? I'm not familiar with what routes connect Buffalo with the east coast.

KVERBERK wrote:Issues came in today. Thanks Ben!

You're welcome! Hope you enjoy them.

Hello Kyle,
Paypal works for me, I can send you an invoice via Paypal if you send me your email address, or I think you can look me up under benjaminhigdon@gmail.com
Thanks for asking!
Ben

I’m honored AARR!
Also I found a batch of issue #10 on Conrail’s Michigan Division, which can be included with the other six for $17 total including shipping. Thanks!

Some of you may recall seeing Michigan Railroads at hobby shops 20 years ago - I made it from 1994-2000 while in high school and college. I have copies of the last six issues and thought I'd offer them for sale. For $15 I'll mail all six, postage included. They're each 14 pages, except #16 which is ...

Ten minutes to, apply handbrakes, uncouple, dial dispatch, wait, wait, wait, get lined around, run north, dial dispatch, wait, wait, run south, recouple, move marker, release handbrakes. Hah, child prodigy is a little off on this hard decision. But when you think you're always right, you always are...

AARR wrote:IIRC the original GTW line east of Muskegon (along Laketon) wasn't removed until the early 1990's although it hadn't seen service in many years.

Yep. It was intact along Laketon at Viking Foods 1995, except the rails were severed where they crossed Laketon.

First, the GTW. I know they at one time had a line coming across the state from Greenville, but that was torn up many years before this early 1970's map. How far out of town did the line continue. It appears there used to be a tank farm east of town. Was this the "end of the line" for the GTW line a...

Has anyone looked into the possibility of some kind of historic preservation grant?
Other than that I don't see where adequate funding would come from.

blueheron13 wrote:I think the Arkona Siding is along the NS Detroit District (Wabash Line) from Arkona Rd northeast to near Goodling Rd. Not far northeast of Milan. Not sure about the Rawsonville Spur.

Thanks!

Good news! I thought the Fremont branch was a goner until recently hearing the elevator got some hoppers.