Where Is It?

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Re: Where Is It?

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That clue helped. It looks like Detroit, Terminal East between Erwin Ave. and French Rd.
ConrailDetr​oit wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 8:42 am
AARR wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 7:32 am
None of the hints have helped me yet
Detroit Terminal used to run on this track.
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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Correct.

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ConrailDetr​oit wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 9:16 am
Correct.
Indeed, the former Detroit Terminal RR, now Conrail SAA Terminal East branch, looking east. Grinnell Street (first street south of the track) can be seen on the right and French Road in the distance. And the Detroit City Airport can be seen on the left out of view.

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Re: Where Is It?

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Being summer and all that, here is one that shouldn't tax the old brain cells of anyone living within 200 miles of the location
Hint: it's not BO Tower

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DaveO wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:10 pm
Being summer and all that, here is one that shouldn't tax the old brain cells of anyone living within 200 miles of the location
Hint: it's not BO Tower

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To think that I used to sit in a car in the darkest wee hours and take in the action without being armed. Ah, the good old days. Anybody remember the late Bob Russell who occasionally worked 3rd trick there decades ago? Stories you can't dare tell on this family site...

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Re: Where Is It?

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Haven't been there in a really long time.
One day, during daylight, they were stripping a car down the street, on the street.

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Re: Where Is It?

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Delray?
DaveO wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:10 pm
Being summer and all that, here is one that shouldn't tax the old brain cells of anyone living within 200 miles of the location
Hint: it's not BO Tower

Image
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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AARR wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:08 pm
Delray?
It's Delray showing the track diet.

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At one time, Delray was busy enough to warrant two operators on each shift. In the early 70's, the second operators were eliminated. I was working at Carleton 3rd trick at that time. One night I went in and there was a note that I had been bumped by one of the displaced operators. Attached to it was another note saying the bump was canceled. Heard whoever it was didn't want to drive that far. Worked for me!!

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DaveO wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:20 pm
AARR wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:08 pm
Delray?
It's Delray showing the track diet.
Indeed, Delray Tower, Dearborn Street, Detroit. The final passenger trains through Delray were the C
&O railway passenger trains 11, 12,14 and 15 between GR and Detroit FSUD the Pere Marquette and the Wabash later N&W Railway passenger train 301-304 the Wabash Cannonball.

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Re: Where Is It?

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Is that stub track a new shortline, or sumthin ?

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M.D.Bentley wrote:
Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:31 pm
Is that stub track a new shortline, or sumthin ?
Definite shortline. Goes from one side of the road to the other.
Unless it's been removed since the Google mobile went through.

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ImageIMG_8705 by tcamp7837, on Flickr

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In Detroit? If it is I'll work on the street next.
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ImageIMG_8705 by tcamp7837, on Flickr
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It's Detroit. Took me awhile to remember where some other rail overpasses were.

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Southwest Detroit?

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In Detroit.

This track sees plenty of Art Deco architecture on its overpasses and underpasses.

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The road seems to be part of a tire testing facility.

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DaveO wrote:
Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:17 pm
The road seems to be part of a tire testing facility.
TBF, so is I-94

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Chip wrote:
Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:16 am
DaveO wrote:
Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:17 pm
The road seems to be part of a tire testing facility.
TBF, so is I-94
These tire testers / street racers / thugs / freeway conquistadors were "Under The CN wit it".

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