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I’m looking at a topographical map from 1975 and it shows that only the Detroit Toledo and Ironton and the Penn Central served Tecumseh Michigan. The DT&I section from Adrian to Tecumseh was sold to N&W in the late 70's when the rest of the DT&I branch east of Tecumseh and south of Adrian was remov...

Weather Permitting. Me and the wife will stop by for a while. Will be bringing some old Track Charts for the GTW (cira 1920 to 1940) and CN (2002 to 2003 Maintenance Program book) if any one wants to take a look. Also have an Extra copy of Model Railroader Industries along the track 2 which i'll let...

I have been trying for the past 5 years to get a log-in for the "other site" and still to this day i have never gotten a reply. I prefer this board by a long shot, as the posts don't fall into the abyss of the net to never be seen again. Was trying to do some research on a old junction in Trenton. T...

Sad to see this line falling to the wayside. These tracks east of DelRay where at one time the busiest rail in Detroit. 4 main lines with the center 2 for heavy passenger service from the Wabash, Per Marquette(C&O), and the Pennsylvania railroad. The line in 1936 had well over 45+ customers with int...

Interested in these. Are they still for sale?

Have a link to the video?

Been going through all my various maps, and i have came to a big stump. Steam era question . In regards to Rougemere yard, when the call came out for an outbound train, Did they pull the engine from the 12st roundhouse or the Plymouth yard roundhouse. seeing as there is no roundhouse ( that i know o...

Didn't see any info on the Taylor one(google). Any one got any info on it?

thanks for the heads up.

I'm in the metro Detroit area and GR is just to far of a drive.

Zin

Any trains/hobby shows coming up soon?

Been out of the loop for a while and would like to ad to my track Chart and map collection.

Zin

Its all for a reason... Stay tuned ;) Are they going to sell it or is there a large increase in traffic coming? I doubt its for sale. CN's theory is if they can operate lines more effeciently than someone else they might as well keep it. That's why they acquired quite a few new lines the last 10 ye...

CharlieX90 wrote:Its all for a reason... Stay tuned

Please tell!

Are they going to sell it or is there a large increase in traffic coming?

Zin

Yeah i also noticed looking south from pen rd. there appears to be a new siding on the east side of the main, Checked Goggle earth and didn't see it. Granted goggle earth has not been updated in a while. I know over the last few months the fully replaced the grade cross at pen rd. Now has full gates...

Just a heads up. Cn is doing major work on the dearborn sub. Saw a whole lot of mow eq. working south of Pennsylvania Road today. Also they have been upgrading and replacing all the grade crossing on the line.

I have an old B&O key that my Uncle gave me when i was much younger. Found the key the other day and wondered if any one here could tell me a little about it, or maybe help me find a lock to go with it. Key is brass about 2 inches long . On one side it has B&O stamped into it the other side has C176...

@ Northline Rd and Allen Rd. Was Conrail's Lincoln Secondary Not sure if CSX or NS owns it now, Seen each road running on it. Runs from Carlton to Melvindale Northline just West of Allen Rd. Is CN Dearborn Sub, Runs down to CN Flat Rock Yard and north to The Ford Rouge Plant Someone else will have t...

If you take the map posted on the 1st page and use google earth line function. From Baldwin to Kaleva is about 36 Miles. ( following the Old Row) Taking the Mile Post at Baldwin of 73 1/2 Miles The route comes out to 109 from GR Then take the Kaleva 132 from the Map on the first page, minus that fro...

http://www.clas.wayne.edu/photos/ap_index.htm#detroit DTE aerial Photos from detroit back to 1949. Very different place back then. I recommend the 600 dpi images, you can zoom really close. Granted there 60+ years old but still good quality Zintac @ ConrailMike. Been to that site 100's of times and...

33 here,

Yeah looking to one day maybe Build a trainz route or build a model railroad of the Detroit area, stem era of course.

That's why i'm looking for old maps and track charts

To bad you can no longer get free access to the sanborn fire insurance maps.

Fort Wayne is too far north of the area in question.
south of fort Wayne, east of Jefferson and north of Zug Island