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Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:08 pm

we are close to Ford Field only a block away, trains should be running before the lions home opener

conrailman75 · Unread post by **conrailman75** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:04 pm

Love your new avatar picture Ypsi, those streamlined Hudsons were among my favorite steam locomotives

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:20 pm

conrailman75 wrote:Love your new avatar picture Ypsi, those streamlined Hudsons were among my favorite steam locomotives

thanks! i love em too! my favorite HO engine i have is a hudson

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:51 pm

The street running to ford field is almost done. Work to continue tommorow and is expected to be done by the 7th. so test trains will run on the 8th along with the an AA OCS. Trains will run on the 9th for the lions home opener, trains will run on the same times as they have been with the tigers games... but now no busses.

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:03 pm

YpsiAmtrakBoy wrote:The AA will be running commuter trains for the home detroit tigers games fro the rest of the seanson starting next week. we will run 4 trains in and 4 trains out with shuttle connections from DET amtrak station to comerica park.

34 train sets of 5 cars each. that will run 4 in and 4 back each ticket is a round trip with bus included

Night game
Train #.....N01.....N03.....N05....N07

AA..........4:30....5:00....5:30...6:00
Ypsi........4:40....5:10....5:40...6:10
Canton.....4:48....5:18....5:48...6:18
Dearborn...5:00...5:30....6:00....6:30
DET.........5:30...6:00....6:30....7:00

Day game
Train #.....D01.....D03.....D05......D07

AA..........10:30...11:00...11:30...12:00
Ypsi........10:40....11:10..11:40...12:10
Canton.....10:48...11:18...11:48...12:18
Dearborn...11:00...11:30...12:00...12:30
DET.........11:30...12:00...12:30...1:00

All west bount trains will run a reverse of the printed but it will depend on when the game ends and what time the busses arrive. the times are padded in the timetable. N for night and D for day, wb #s are 2 4 6 and 8

they will run in times similar to this

conrailman75 · Unread post by **conrailman75** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:40 pm

Ypsi, Penn Central's CEO has decided he would like to attend the Lions' home opener and wants to bring our one car business train(the observation car and PC FP7 4371)to the game this weekend. Will that be possible? PC would run the train to Toledo and then get on AA tracks there to head up to Detroit for the game.

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:41 pm

sure thing. I was planing on having the tracks done farther then they needed to be so I could park my OCS too

the tracks will be compleated to ford field then about 500 feet beyond the station for our 2 trains. I have an f7 and 3 coaches going so we should be able to fit the 5 pieces of equpitment in that space

conrailman75 · Unread post by **conrailman75** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:49 pm

Cool, my train will run up to Toledo on Saturday and then I will interchange it to you on Sunday morning for forwarding to the game.

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:25 pm

conrailman75 wrote:Cool, my train will run up to Toledo on Saturday and then I will interchange it to you on Sunday morning for forwarding to the game.

If you dont mind, I can just add your engine and car to the end of my train.

The AA is sending the AA 9 (F7A) a dome/ lounge, a business/ end car, and a car and an engine from the Hilsdale Clinton and Eastern. we will be taking a HCE dome end car and an FPA-4 on the rear of my cars. the AA has a suite and 10 50 yard line seats at ford field

conrailman75 · Unread post by **conrailman75** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:22 pm

Go ahead, especially if it saves you a crew or a pilot. We don't mind how we get there just as long as we get there

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:34 pm

The lions trains went great! We will also be doing tigers games for the rest of their season.

The AA/PC/HCE OCS is getting ready to depart Ford field at 5:45 pm

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:34 pm

The Ann Arbor Turned 117 years old last Friday! We were created on Setpember 21st 1895, and celebrated 100 years in 1995 with a special painted GP35 (#380 repainted in '07, sold '12). The Annie is the current oldest railroad in Michigan, and one of the longest continually operating business in Michigan. Our steam engines are long gone, as are all of our ALCOs and GP35s, but we continue to upgrade our fleet and keep dependiable transportation in the state of michigan.

Ann Arbor Railroad: Serving Michigan since 1895

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:35 pm

Just a little info, the AA has been running commuter trains to the lions games, and has been running commuter trains to comerica park during the playoffs. We have leased some additional coaches from metra and Amtrak durning this time. We got 12 horizon cars and 10 additional metra cars.

Michigan Railfan · Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:40 pm

How far have we come with the Detroit commuter station? Is there an expected finish date? Keep in mind we have extra workers and equipment if ever necessary

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:46 pm

Michigan Railfan wrote:How far have we come with the Detroit commuter station? Is there an expected finish date? Keep in mind we have extra workers and equipment if ever necessary

We are right now working on buying the space from the city of Detroit... the space that we are looking at is the park at 150 west jefferson, just north of the stadium. The Issue we keep running into is the fact that it is a park nad that we would need to relocate a statue. The city is resistant to move the art, but we believe that we can have it moved, and all that we will be able to build is a 2 track station with a small building. the station will have a shed for the trains to pull into since they will be used in the winter and for hockey games. The NHL lockout has allowed us to take our time and make sure we do everything right. Hopefully we will be able to get a deal done with the city before the NHL season (hopefully) starts.

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:02 pm

one of my AA's Cabooses

heartlandguy · Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:15 pm

YpsiAmtrakBoy wrote:one of my AA's Cabooses

Man, that looks cool. Good job Ypsi!

Unread post by **AARR** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:23 am

I like it Ypsi! I was hoping you would take my challenge and design a paint scheme for my AAMN

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:53 am

AARR wrote:I like it Ypsi! I was hoping you would take my challenge and design a paint scheme for my AAMN

Thanks. Ok i can do that! ill post it when im done

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:12 pm

The tigers are done, so are the tiger commuter trains... and it looks like we will not need to do red wings anytime soon, so the extension of my Detroit trains to the Joe has been put on hold. Trains will run from AA stopping at Ypsi, Canton, Dearborn, the west side of Detroit, and Ford Field for the remainder of the season.

let it be noted that we have no daily passenger trains just sports commuter trains. We are looking into a Amtrak Toledo-Ann Arbor train and a Toledo-Mackinaw train via our clare grayling connection.

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