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Hate to hear that. Worst for the victim, but bad for the crew. And if the incident was AT instead of NEAR the Amtrak station, that could make it harder to railfan there. If that's even permitted anymore? I've been around long enough I remember the fatal accident near Bogue Street which led to the in...

Seems to have been a recent shift in the Plymouth-Lansing-Grand Rapids schedule? I've started hearing a train passing Dobie Road between 3 and 4pm pretty much daily. I happened to be out running an errand last week and actually SAW that train, got caught at the crossing, the first time I've seen (ra...

Nice update, thanks. Have all the road trains between Plymouth and Grand Rapids been cancelled? That line runs within a few blocks of my house, and there used to be a few but regular daytime opportunities. But I haven't been able to get out for a couple years. (So hard to imagine that once there wer...

I'm not having any trouble distinguishing between Cory and Snow. I've been out at both with my camera. I was attempting to ask if "Cory" includes the seven north-south tracks NORTH of Billwood, adjacent to the plant (if not on it) are considered part of Cory along with the 3 or 4 tracks alongside t...

Thanks. Do you know if both parts I described are considered part of Cory? No, check out this thread: http://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33072&p=349907#p349907 Cory is off of Billwood Highway where it goes under I-69; Snow is significantly further up the line named after Snow Road nea...

AFAIK the one at Delta Township is Cory yard, and the one just east of there is Snow yard. I believe the one "downtown" is called Hollow yard. The CN timetable I have says the yard east of Nixon is Cory Yard. The one at Snow Road is Snow Yard. Thanks. Do you know if both parts I described are consi...

I have heard the yard by the Oldsmobile Plant site and Grand River Assembly being called Sleepy Hollow Yard or simply Hollow Yard. I was talking about the yards by the Delta Township plant, not the ones by the downtown properties on the riverfront (my wife used to work there in a plant that's gone)...

There are two CN yards on the southwest side of Lansing, by the GM Delta plant. One, east of Nixon Road, is four tracks on the CN right of way, alongside the Lansing main & industrial tracks. The other is north of Billwood Highway, seven tracks (looks like 4 loading, three storage), probably all on ...

Amtrak 365 is not running today because of it--not as a train, anyway. Some stations at least will have buses substituted.

I've set for myself the completely arbitrary goal of having a 50-train day before the leaves turn again. Since I live in the Lansing area, this requires a road trip. Because money, a day trip, not an overnighter. Since I used to live in Goshen right by the NS Chicago Line, I'm wondering if I might b...

One of my goals for 2015 is to have my first 50-train day. Since I live in the Lansing area this means a road trip to somewhere. Is a 50-train day possible on the Chicago Line between Robert Young and the Marion Branch? I'm hoping the answer is yes, because I used to live on the west side of Goshen ...

Thanks to everyone for the tips. I ended up having a lot less time than I'd anticipated, and it was a cold drizzly day. I only saw one train, and didn't even bother photographing it because the light was so bad. Life has pulled me away from the tracks--I don't think I'd even looked in here since Lac...

The count of the missing raised to 60 this morning, including the 15 unidentified remains already recovered.

I've been following this one pretty closely through Canadian media and through blogs and tweets of people at or close to the scene. At this point it seems to have played out this way: -- 11 p.m. (per TSB) - Veteran engineer Tom Hayden, who has worked this job three times a week for a long time, ties...

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How do they know that the train was a runaway ? I'll wait here. :? They found the five locomotives with their brakes still set. It isn't clear to me if they found them where it had been parked 4km uphill, or somewhere intermediate. But the locomotives did not go down into town with the tank cars. U...

Hi. In the not too distant future I'm going to find myself in Valpo for the day with several midday hours free, and I was hoping someone could give me some tips on good legal (no trespassing, public) viewing spots for the NS and CN lines. My base of operations will be the university, though I will h...

A good question, Mike. I'm not sure what the Durand gift shop might offer (but I'm curious to know what you find there). I myself have been a postcard fan since I was a kid, not part of any club, just collecting them for myself and sending them back and forth between friends. As for contemporary ra...

Hi. I'm in the Lansing area. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I could get some (prototype) railroad postcards at a retail-spinner kind of price ($.39 each, 3/$1, that sort of thing)? I'm involved with an international postcard exchange, and I'd like to join the railroading special intere...

Not a whole lot of CSX left to see here in Lansing/MSU/Okemos, sadly. It's not a rust line yet, and there's even a new (replacement) defect detector at MP 79.9, but the traffic isn't even half what it was four years ago.