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Front Street parallels the river, on the west bank. North of Wealthy, South of Fulton (no longer connects to Fulton). If tou're looking around Ann Street, you're over a mile too far North.

C&O tested out a design for an articulated, 3-axle coal hopper, #300001. It worked pretty well, except that it messed up the RRs weigh-in-motion scales: they'd work properly intil #300001 rolled by, then, the weight on 300001s last truck would be added to the first truck of the next car, and the err...

C&O/PM ran CHI-GRR, GRR-DET & HOL-MUS right up to A-Day. I still have the GR Press clippings of the lead-up to A-Day-- "Of Gaety & Gloom" was one headline. Lots of pictures.

Changes. . . now that I think about it, it's been a while since I've seen a BL-2. . . .

Interesting. Detroit Free Press reports the train as Chicago-bound. At 10PM? Train then proceeded to "a nearby station".

http://www.freep.com/article/20130116/N ... s-reported

Train wins. Just reported on Channel 8 on-screen "ticker" that #370 hit a car at Ivanrest & Chicago Drive in Grandville tonight. Doubt the car was on BOTH roads, but after the accident, the car's on both roads now! website ( http://www.woodtv.com ) shows a dark photo and very little text. No injurie...

No. The "kit and caboodle" comes already put together. The "whole nine yards" is, in actuality, an UNASSEMBLED kit & caboodle, AKA "kit and caboodle KIT". W9Y has somehow successfully resisted metrification-- if the metric system had prevailed, W9Y would have been changed to either "the whole 2.743 ...

Who the heck is "Fred Raley"?