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A drunk driver did this to my left leg back in 1992. I hope your girlfriend's injuries were less critical.

Yeah, I’m sure people have had rooms reserved for a few years now too. If I didn’t have to work, I’d just leave early in the morning and come back in the evening. Done that plenty of times shooting trains in Illinois and Indiana anyway. And since it’s in the middle of the day, there wouldn’t be any ...

Well, it'll be easy to track the Chicago-St. Louis Amtrak trains if you want to time it just right for catching one of those during totality. Otherwise I think it would be more a matter of luck to catch a freight during that moment and in a decent location. *Edit: If you were to go to Illinois. Didn...

Standard Railfan wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 am

It seems odd that apples are shipped to Michigan at all. We grow over a million pounds per year.

Not a lot of Granny Smith apples being grown in Michigan.

You can easily, and legally, photograph trains at West Olive as they are leaving the plant. No one is going to chase you away from the Hiawatha Drive crossing. Screen Shot 2024-02-24 at 5.02.12 PM.png Screen Shot 2024-02-24 at 5.02.42 PM.png There was a time when you could photograph trains from the...

I've been interested in why CSX plays such a big role on this site. It's always got the most updates from the widest group of people on TLU and it has by far the most detailed and up to date train symbols list on the wiki. It just kind of worked out that way. Definitely wasn't intentional, I don't ...

I love how his hat got blown off.

Been there, done that. Love that site.

Old Kelvinator plant on Clyde Park? On the track/branch that used to run from the end of the City Market spur to Burton on the GDLK(NYC). One leg ran on the west end of the property and tied into the old interurban RoW. The other ran on the east side where you can still see rail in the parking lot,...

No.

Somewhere in west Michigan. Old spur running into the building probably hasn't been used in my lifetime (I'll be 57 this year). Rails are also buried in the parking lot running along the drive to the left.

I'm sure this is probably an easy one for some people here.

Frozen frosted brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts are the bomb! Meh. Frosted raspberry fresh out of the toaster for me. :D https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products/all-flavors/pop-tarts-frosted-raspberry-product.html Neither. Strawberry. Definitely strawberry second when raspberry isn't available.

AARR wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:48 am

Frozen frosted brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts are the bomb!

Meh. Frosted raspberry fresh out of the toaster for me.

https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products ... oduct.html

First time hearing of MMMM was on Facebook yesterday. Sounds like a really cool place and I don't how its existence has eluded me all my life, especially since I've driven by it or ridden by it in a car dozens of times in my life.

William Post, inventor of the Pop-Tart, dead at 96.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapid ... ies-at-96/

amessmann wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:53 am

Awesome photo JT

Thanks. I randomly arrived at Trowbridge and put my drone up in the air a minute before the EB BNSF train arrived...and I had no idea there was CSX train waiting to cross the diamond. Score! (terrible lighting, though)

The EB signals for both lines are close enough to the diamonds that they won't be in the way of the reconstruction. CSX's is on the south-side of the tracks, so with a likelihood of construction trucks and etc possibly/probably using that lot to get in and out as needed, they won't have to pass by ...

NickThatRailfan wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:59 pm

I was just asking a question, yall dont gotta be so rude

Take a moment to yourself and have a rational thought. Do you REALLY think if this happened your "buddy" would be the first one telling you, instead of seeing that info posted here first by those in the know?

Come on, don't be so naive.

Grand Elk horns heard south of GR at 12:20pm. Presumably northbound.

Just heard Grand Elk’s horn off in the distance. Not sure if they are headed into Grand Rapids or out.