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Hello all, I am interested in having a couple GP9’s custom painted and lettered. Can any shell (factory painted and lettered) be custom painted and lettered or do I need to get some un-decorated shells to have the custom work done to them? Also, does anyone have any links to some good places to hav...

There's currently an EB, possibly with a fresh crew, in PH. When we pulled into the parking lot at 16th Street, nothing was lined up WB from Canada. Would the EB be the E274 that was at Cory earlier? (asking because my scanner and camera are both at home). I've obviously missed something- LRF, how d...

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Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:41 am

I want to revive this thread:


2. How many engine blocks does a genset have?

What kind of genset? Early on some had 2 and some had 3. My understanding is that the generator sets weren't durable enough for railroad needs.

Edit: apparently the GV show is May 7th. So two of the shows aren't until May.

If you're on Facebook, there's a group dedicated to posting information about train shows in the metro Detroit area that could be worth keeping an eye on.

Gratiot Valley is supposed to have one at a soccer complex in Shelby Township this spring, there's one at the old Packard Proving Grounds (also in Shelby Township) at the end of February, and there's one in Port Huron (at the mall, NOT the convention center) April 30-May 1. Edit: poster for the Port...

It's kind of a toss-up for me. I'm primarily in N scale, although we have some HO guys in our modeler's group and several of us dabble a little in HO scale. On one hand, I have a certain attachment to the Port Huron & Detroit Railroad. It was local and I prefer the character of the shortlines over t...

I know this is better suited to the history board, oh well. I looked up some stuff in old Free Press articles online. It wasn't the New York Central that drove the GT to build the eastern part of the belt line, but the Pere Marquette. There was a ton of information, the following only touches on th...

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And why would it make my day

For those who haven't heard, the Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Historical Society is shutting down. The organization's final public event is tomorrow (Sunday December 12, 2021) from 11 am to 3 pm. Event might not be the right word- this is a liquidation sale and all of the administrative items (furn...

Good luck chasing the trip. A couple friends and I tried that a couple years ago, with our first shot at the intersection of Smith and Wilkinson roads, and our second shot on the state highway just outside of Ashley- the train moves too fast and there's too much traffic to move fast enough on the ba...

That's the right name. It was built by 3 members of the Blue Water International Ntrak club in the mid-90's as an alternate to Ntrak after a dominating club member had sucked the joy out of Ntrak (according to one of the original 3). The layout was named after the streets the original 3 lived on at ...

X382 just marked up to go east from Sarnia. The dispatcher mentioned that there's a 397 somewhere east of Sarnia that's either in their way, or that they'll meet along the way. CN 3880 is leading another westbound that's waiting to go west from Port Huron. I don't have a symbol for 3880's train- it ...

There was a thread on this a couple months ago, http://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=37697 . There has been discussion about the symbol changes here recently- I think. I thought the 500 series locals were mostly annulled, at least on the east end of the Flint Sub. M301 is a relatively ne...

I have a very vague recollection of seeing a picture of a solid blue rack (possibly a single or bilevel car with enclosed sides and an open roof?) at or containing a load shipped from the Ford plant in Romeo. I was hoping someone else might know if there was anything special about these particular ...

Figured someone would jump in. Based on a google image search for GTW autorack... There were several series that were all blue on the sides. Thanks. I found 2 pictures of the car decoration that I'm looking for. And a bunch of pictures of HO scale models. There was also a variation of Blue panels, ...

Not sure if this should be here or in the Modeling area, but I'm sure ~Z~ or AARR will move it if need be. 8) (edit: Thanks ~Z~!) (Admin edit: you can thank AARR) In HO scale there's a model of a Grand Trunk enclosed autorack that has a solid blue body and I think either a silver or white roof. I'm ...

any review of how the show was? I thought it was a good show- definitely worth the trip. I didn't see too many dealers, although there were a handful. The majority of the vendors I saw seemed to be selling stuff for themselves or family/friends. I was also impressed by how many layouts they had, ev...

As far as going to work camp and getting charged for one's stay- he's in the county jail for the 93 days. In St. Clair County you get a bill from the jail for the expense of housing you following your release from jail. It's not 93 days of living on the county's dime. It is the counties (or someone...

The charge Mr. Harvey pled guilty to was larceny $200 or less and that's because most of what he took was $$ not physical items. The $200 or less included a handful of items that a dollar value could be assigned to. It doesn't include financial records he took from the previous treasurer and didn't ...

A Google search for Marinas in one of the cities mentioned that Amtrak stops in that has tracks next to it might help with luck. Not in Illinois, which does not share a border with Michigan. More specifically, not a Continental border. The water pictured can be referred to as a bay as well as part ...