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Looks like there's a chance that GTW Pacific 5030 could be leaving the park in Jackson for a new home and restoration in SE Pennsylvania on the Colebrookdale Railroad . Jackson Mayor Derek Dobie announced Friday on Facebook that a sale agreement has been negotiated (see https://www.facebook.com/dere...

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Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:06 pm

Then CF&E gives it off to INER? I forget whose tracks the Little River runs on

After the prep work is done in Valpo, the last hop before the INER (host of the Little River RR) will have to be via NS to Montpelier- that's the only place INER interchanges with anyone else.

This has to be the nicest, most succinct short-form piece I've seen on the PM Berkshires.

Bravo, SD80MAC!

Nothing really to add, except to say that your assessment of PM steam in West Michigan is spot on.

Still standing during snow squalls on Sunday morning, November 22.

Nov. 10

Chris Cook - The multi-talented and always helpful co-founder of the Clinton Northern Railway Museum in St. Johns, model railroader and large scale modeler, passed away peacefully after a long illness, at his home near Holland.

October 24: Prof. Carl Bajema - GVSU Professor Emeritus (Biology) and author of several books on logging railroads and electric railroads in Michigan.

https://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/gran ... =197022625

There was also a Standard Oil depot on the Frankfort side of the lake into at least the late 1950s.

There are a couple of color photos of it in Steve Hile's book on the UTLX tank car fleet.

Nearly twenty years ago, I produced and sold a small run of HO scale decals to stripe and letter Ludington & Northern SW8 #16 in its original scheme, as well as its later variants. It covered its time on the Ann Arbor Railroad, the Michigan Southern (and its brief stint in Muskegon on the Michigan S...

'been kinda quiet around here this summer, so here's a picture of the newly-released Rapido Trains USRA boxcar. http://www.fritzmilhaupt.com/bbgraphics/RapidoUSRAPMBoxcar81725-Broadside-jfm-1sm.jpg The detailing is exceptional- it even has the correct Carmer coupler lift levers. My only comment woul...

I see that they've trotted out the old "passenger service from SE Michigan" idea again.

Gee, has it been sixteen months, already?

John N. "Jack" Ozanich of Battle Creek, a retired GTW/CN engineer, passed away early in the afternoon of the 29th from lung cancer at age 76. Jack was known for his HO scale Atlantic Great Eastern model railroad and his 3-3/4" scale Sandy Ridge and Clear Lake Railroad, but mostly for being Jack. In ...

It occurs to me that the Sanford Historical Society's facility, with its rolling stock and the former Sanford depot, is/was most likely too close to the river to have escaped harm. I imagine that it would come down to a matter of elevation. Obviously, the folks in Sanford have bigger things to be co...

Talk of all of this grade crossing work SE of 28th and Division can't help but remind me of the several millions of dollars of work that went into reworking the grade crossings and traffic lights at 44th and Kalamazoo oh so many years ago. I don't recall whether they actually finished all of the wor...

Downtown Williston, North Dakota.

That there is Williston's Railroad Park, near their Amtrak depot.

Very nice! And you didn't hold off on installing a switch, either-- I've known a couple of live steamers who had no problem doing all of the fiddly work to build steam locomotives, but ran out of enthusiasm when it came time to cut in the first switch. Track work just wasn't interesting enough to th...

Thanks, guys!

Being gone by 1981 makes sense, because I started driving around 1982-83, and I was unable to find it then.

I have fuzzy memories from the late 1960s/early 1970s of my father driving me past the former Michigan Central roundhouse that used to stand facing Buchanan Street in Grand Rapids. It was north of Albany Street, but south of the Franklin Street overpass, across the street from what was then left of ...

The GTW yard arrangement between Plainfield/Leonard and Lafayette Streets can be seen on the Sanborn maps in the Library of Congress online collection, specifically at https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4114gm.g04023191201/?sp=56 This is the arrangement as of 1912, but from what I'm seeing, I don't think...

Back in college, we used to refer to anyone who loudly proclaimed an over-inflated view of their talents or accomplishments as a Zug Island Prom King (or Prom Queen). Especially in situations where the bar for competence was low.