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Not picking on any specific railroad, but does any one know of what other types of work gangs railroads use besides rail and tie & surfacing ?

Hello All, The Penn Central Railroad Historical Society Convention for 2020 will be held in Detroit, Mi. for the first time in Society history. For more information please visited..https://www.pcrrhs.org/events/2020-convention

With all of the resent talk on the board about Battle creek, besides Amtrak and CN. How many NS trains either manifest or local switch go threw BC?

The little bit I recall about Delta Yard is that in the early 1980's it was still a yard but not really used. The Exposition Spur local was based out of it but probably just to pick up its train. Sort of like a holding yard. In addition to the industries mentioned in the posts I am pretty sure it a...

M.D.Bentley wrote:Delta yard = Conrail. There are some great pictures in the book Trackside Detroit Downriver. Delta was a very busy yard at one time. Sadly no more.

So at one time when is was busy, tell me about it please.

Looking at a Detroit RR map I see the yards that NYC, PC, Conrail and now NS uses. Just to the North of of River Rouge yard and across the bascule bridge on the former "NYC, PC." Toledo line and now Detroit line. There is the Exposition spur that services the City of Detroit and the Cement plant the...

Looking for information on train symbols or how the BRC names / classifies there trains. Also looking for factual information on how this company is own vs. the six class one railroads ownership?

Looks like this Avon hump closer has been pushed a little further to closing the entire yard. As i'm told by a very close friend that has worked there for last 30 years.
http://wishtv.com/2017/06/02/csx-to-shu ... rain-yard/

First off I do apologize this thread was last post in 2010..but it is a general question about the Conrail shared assets .. Is this railroad classified as a short line or terminal railroad?

OK Thanks, for that information. Did PC and CR use this yard for local switching crews? Also how did this yard get it's stock of cars for local switching? Is there a CR symbol for this yard?

Asking about Colehour yard. I am to understand it was a former PRR. Looking for somemore facts about this yard during the PC and Conrail years and how it is used now by the Norfolk Southern.

Thanks guys, I didn't know the history till now. 1. So threw the years that Amtrak has owned this line did Conrail and NS do the switching? 1-B. Train symbols, and yards the switch jobs are based out of? 2. One last thing did Conrail or NS ever use trackage rights over this section of track or just ...

I read this quote on the history of Amtrak " The formation of Conrail also benefitted Amtrak in other ways. The most important was the acquisition of 83 miles of former Penn Central trackage between Kalamazoo, Mich. and Michigan City, Ind." So my question is: What year did Amtrak get trackage rights...

I did not know whether to put this in the Illinois or Indiana talk since this line covers both states. I am looking for information on the Hartsdale Industrial Terminal that connects off of the Kankakee line in Schereville, IN. Looking for detailed history and freight / Switching operations during t...

Thanks Conraildetroit. Were does the supply of cars come from for Tecumseh Yard to switch the mill and Chem plant? In the Conrail days were there ever direct heavy freights off of the Detroit line onto the marsh track for the yard / mill, can they support this?

Detroit line at "CP-YD", Looking for information on what the Marsh running track was used for and Tecumseh yard in Ecorse, MI? I am looking at an old Conrail ZTS map and looks like Great Lakes steel, Detroit Edison power. If someone can elaborate on the history and how it is used now? Please?

Does any one know how many customers are on or left from the old Conrail E&W I.T. now ran by the E&W RR.

Looking at Google maps I see were the south shore comes threw the "BAILLY WYE" in Burns Harbor, Indiana. I see were that leads into the Bailly NIPSCO Generation station. Just a little further east I see a track lead into the right into a small yard or two. That yard continues south west towards CP-4...

Sounds great guys, thanks for the info. The info I got was not a bulletin but was a comment a friend of mine. But yea good to know whats coming down the road.

This question is about the NS Lake Division and it effects all Three states (Indiana, Michigan and Ohio) on this message board. I read this quota...Effective Jan 1st, 2014. The NS Detroit District and Huntington District (DETROIT - BUTLER) will be under control of the Dearborn Division. Along with O...