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Are they keeping the power in Hamilton? I'll be out that way next weekend and would like to get some photos for PM Tracks.

'probably wander out to 64th Street, too, to see whether anything's left of the caboose out there (PM A566) after the deal with Chris Cook ended sadly.

The Holland Museum will hold a dedication ceremony for newly-restored Pere Marquette caboose #A967 on Saturday, June 18 at 10:00am at the Padnos Transportation Center in Holland.

https://hollandmuseum.org/event/pere-ma ... 2022-06-18

Yes, Graydon Meints is Don Meints. "Don" is how some of his friends referred to him.

He was a genuinely nice guy and a giant in the study of rail history.

John C. Paton, 78, passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 2, 2022. John is best known for his published works on Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio subjects, including Pere Marquette Revenue Freight Cars with Art Million, Chesapeake & Ohio BL2 Diesels and Alleghany with an “A” . He had held ...

Do they still have that show at the MBT Expo Center at the Monroe County Fairgrounds? I remember that one was usually a fair, sometimes good show that I almost always enjoyed going to. That show hasn't been held for a long time, now. At least five years, I think. It was what was left of the old Mau...

The P&BR equipment is in Fairview on the Au Sable Valley Railroad, about 40 minutes' drive east of Grayling, just off of M-33. The railroad was sold by the Schraders and the new owner has plans to put it back into service, but has run into difficulties- see https://mavrailroad.com for an update from...

Thanks, guys! This project started out with the idea of making two GP35s to augment the two we already had. I got a good deal on a pair of Kato GP35s at a train show in early 2019. Later that summer, I was offered four more undecs at a very good price from an estate that a friend was liquidating, so...

In 2020 I finished painting the last of the eight GP35s that the Wabash acquired before its merger into the N&W in 1964. http://railsonwheels.com/ors/graphics/SixNewGP35s-ORS-1.jpg The last six of eight Wabash GP35s, shown in the Operations Road Show Fiddle Yard Just two E8s to finish in solid blue,...

The Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club's show in Saline is February 19 and 20.

https://www.a2trainshow.com/

Ron Bashista, founder and owner of S scale model manufacturer American Models, reportedly passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, December 4, according to news items on several model railroad discussion boards.

I've dug around a bit in the usual fairly obvious places, but I have not seen any report identifying the cause of the Grand Ledge freight house fire last year. I'm putting together a brief article on it as I try to get recent-ish news caught up in PM TRACKS , but I'm missing this rather important pi...

On Thursday, November 4 at 7 pm, the Holland Museum will present a Zoom program featuring a conversation about the history of the Holland Caboose, and the Pere Marquette and its importance to the Holland community. If you wish to attend online, you must register first on Eventbrite: https://hollandm...

That will be the second railroad display that has been in the Harbor Springs area.

In the early 1970s, an 0-6-0, a work car and a caboose were displayed along M-119 on the way into Harbor Springs. Does anyone know the fate of this equipment?

Even if CP re-routed over the Plymouth Sub, they'd still be at the mercy of NS once they got to Porter.

The last rail in the pavement at the former Spring Street grade crossings (in front of the old Ford plant) was removed over the past couple of weeks.

When I went through there this afternoon, they had the first layer of asphalt down where the westernmost spur had been.

According to an article in the Detroit Free Press yesterday afternoon, owners Norm and Bonnie LePage have decided to close Big Rock Chophouse in December. The restaurant is located in the old GTW Birmingham depot. The LePages established the restaurant as Norm's Eton Street Station in 1984, then con...

Yesterday, August 6, 2021, the Pere Marquette Historical Society and the Plymouth Historical Museum signed an agreement for the Plymouth Historical Museum (PHM) to house and provide access to the PMHS Archives. This marks the first and most critical step in a process of renewal for the PMHS that the...

'that an EJ&E caboose there?

January 21 - Eugene "Gene" Lewis, 81, of Oxford, Michigan - model railroader and owner/proprietor of GML Enterprises, a manufacturer of model railroad electronics products, including a well-regarded line of DC throttles and fast-time clocks.

A shot I took while chasing the inaugural run of Amtrak's Pere Marquette in August, 1984- Amtrak business #10000 bringing up the rear past the wigwag signal at Baldwin Street in Jenison.