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- Thu May 23, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 139
- Views: 7346
- Thu May 23, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Great Lakes Central Updates May 2024
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3221
Re: Great Lakes Central Updates May 2024
Signal Maintenance was in Kingsley yesterday. They installed a new WCH E-Bell on the East Signal at the M-113 crossing downtown to replace a dead mechanical bell. One mechanical bell remains on the West Signal. I noticed a week ago that flashing light/bell crossing equipment has been staged at Ship...
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: National / Other States Talk
- Topic: Disused rail line in Pittsburgh overtaken by nature
- Replies: 4
- Views: 639
Re: Disused rail line in Pittsburgh overtaken by nature
I believe the line in question is either the West Side Belt RR or the Pittsburgh and West Virginia. The P&WV was part of the Wabash and bought the WSBRR out of bankruptcy in 1908. These two lines ran near each other but at different elevations. I do not know which line is still in service and the tw...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Lake State Railway
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4146
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 139
- Views: 7346
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
Grand Elk (UP) WB MP 83 1100.
Wisconsin Southern unit solo. I couldn’t see the number.
4 box 2 tanks.
Wisconsin Southern unit solo. I couldn’t see the number.
4 box 2 tanks.
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: White Cloud question
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2145
Re: White Cloud question
Here is a link to an 1880 map of White Cloud. Interesting track layout.
https://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/U ... /Michigan/
https://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/U ... /Michigan/
https://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/U ... /Michigan/
https://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/U ... /Michigan/
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Vicksburg Union Depot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1029
Re: Vicksburg Union Depot
The PRR diagram of the Vicksburg interlocking lists the following:
“Electric Machine
4 Levers for 12 Signals
4 Unit Table Level Machine”
Since this was an electric machine , there would be no need for the large mechanical levers and frame.
“Electric Machine
4 Levers for 12 Signals
4 Unit Table Level Machine”
Since this was an electric machine , there would be no need for the large mechanical levers and frame.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Vicksburg Union Depot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1029
Re: Vicksburg Union Depot
I take it then levers were in the depot itself to line movements at one point?
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Yes. https://www.michiganrailroads.com/stati ... cksburg-mi
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Pere Marquette Station Book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3077
Re: Pere Marquette Station Book
Thank you for sharing the station list.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: National / Other States Talk
- Topic: Norfolk Southern Settlement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 557
Re: Norfolk Southern Settlement
Norfolk Southern’s fourth quarter earnings from railway operations was in excess of $800 million AFTER taking a $150 million charge to account for costs associated with the “eastern Ohio incident “. Charges against earnings were also taken in the 3rd quarter ($163 MM), 2nd quarter ($416 MM), and the...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Ohio Talk
- Topic: Solar eclipse in Ohio
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2497
Re: Solar eclipse in Ohio
I drove through and stopped in Lima for about an hour last May in the early afternoon.
I caught one train on the CFE. IIRC there two other movements in town but I was not able to get a good look at what was happening.
I caught one train on the CFE. IIRC there two other movements in town but I was not able to get a good look at what was happening.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Grand Trunk Western Oddities
- Replies: 4
- Views: 873
Re: Grand Trunk Western Oddities
I think the photo might have been taken at Nieman road looking SW. The pole line would have been in the right place (some poles are extant) and the tree lines look similar.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Hamilton Northwestern Railroad Co.
- Replies: 217
- Views: 2507700
Re: Hamilton Northwestern Railroad Co.
I thought I read somewhere‘s on RailRoadFan.com that the WMI was transloading apples that were transported up to Traverse City Michigan for Gogo Squeez. So who knows what the actual range on a transload site could be. Here’s an interesting thought. If Gogo Squeez transloaded those apples from the H...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Cancer
- Replies: 48
- Views: 59454
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: CSX Pullman, MI Derailment, March 16, 1998.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11874
Re: CSX Pullman, MI Derailment, March 16, 1998.
Sorry for responding to this conversation very late but I’ve always wondered what happened at that curve after watching the Thornapple River Rail Series coal train chase video! Glad I was bored this morning and decided to research! And it’s nice to know there is a lot of history with this derailmen...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: MMRR to cease operations in 2025?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6294
Re: MMRR to cease operations in 2025?
Well lets start with the agri traffic on the line and well start with ethanol plant in Caro and the sugar plant there too. tttleshe shuttles of ddg and ethanol should keep them very busy. The elevator at Colling is inactive at this time. Over on the Denmark Branch I can imagine that both of the sta...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - February 2024
- Replies: 111
- Views: 10489
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: Illinois Talk
- Topic: Metra buying battery-powered trainsets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3669
Re: Metra buying battery-powered trainsets
The use of battery powered trainsets is becoming more common.
https://www.alstom.com/press-releases- ... irish-rail
https://www.alstom.com/press-releases- ... irish-rail
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Historical photos from the Ann Arbor News of AA railroads
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2264
Re: Historical photos from the Ann Arbor News of AA railroads
I am curious why the railroad crew is waiting while the cars are being unloaded.Michael wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:41 amDid you see this one from 1936 of Fingerle Lumber?
https://aadl.org/N016_0659_001
I didn’t realize that “just in time” delivery existed in 1936.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2024
- Replies: 181
- Views: 35141
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2024
Thank you for checking into it, LRF. It would have been nice if E&LS was switching the plant again bit it will have to remain a customer on my paper railroad only for now :) You have me interested. E&LS doesn't have a connection to Billerud. They would have to use trackage rights on CN. I know you ...