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- Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:11 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GTW 5030 may be going to Pennsylvania
- Replies: 7
- Views: 755
GTW 5030 may be going to Pennsylvania
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...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:51 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Norfolk & Western 300 Ocean
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5528
Re: Norfolk & Western 300 Ocean
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.LansingRailFan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:06 pmThen CF&E gives it off to INER? I forget whose tracks the Little River runs on
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:26 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Pere Marquette Berkshires
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1016
Re: Pere Marquette Berkshires
This has to be the nicest, most succinct short-form piece I've seen on the PM Berkshires.
Bravo, SD80MAC!
Bravo, SD80MAC!
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:51 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: West Michigan Steam Power
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5950
Re: West Michigan Steam Power
Nothing really to add, except to say that your assessment of PM steam in West Michigan is spot on.
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:26 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Delray Tower photos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8229
Re: Delray Tower photos
Still standing during snow squalls on Sunday morning, November 22.


- Fri Nov 13, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: November, 2020 Obituaries.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8423
Re: November, 2020 Obituaries.
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.
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.
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:06 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: October, 2020 Obituaries.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7061
Re: October, 2020 Obituaries.
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
https://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/gran ... =197022625
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Frankfort Question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5578
Re: Frankfort Question
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.
There are a couple of color photos of it in Steve Hile's book on the UTLX tank car fleet.
- Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:50 am
- Forum: Model Railroading
- Topic: Ludington & Northern/Kendallville Terminal SW8 decals
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1514
Ludington & Northern/Kendallville Terminal SW8 decals
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...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:19 pm
- Forum: Model Railroading
- Topic: Rapido's PM USRA Double-Sheathed Boxcar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1269
Rapido's PM USRA Double-Sheathed Boxcar
'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...
- Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:49 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New rail yard coming to Kalkaska on the GLC
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6557
Re: New rail yard coming to Kalkaska on the GLC
I see that they've trotted out the old "passenger service from SE Michigan" idea again.
Gee, has it been sixteen months, already?
Gee, has it been sixteen months, already?
- Sat May 30, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: May 2020 Obituaries
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8456
Re: May 2020 Obituaries
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 ...
- Sat May 23, 2020 9:02 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Midland area flooding
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2713
Re: Midland area flooding
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...
- Mon May 11, 2020 11:02 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GDLK Operations
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 411832
Re: GDLK Operations
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...
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:15 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 9223
- Views: 606417
Re: Where Is It?
Downtown Williston, North Dakota.
That there is Williston's Railroad Park, near their Amtrak depot.
That there is Williston's Railroad Park, near their Amtrak depot.
- Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:24 am
- Forum: Model Railroading
- Topic: No Engineer Required
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3142
Re: No Engineer Required
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...
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:10 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Grand Rapids MC Roundhouse- Approx demolition date?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3426
Re: Grand Rapids MC Roundhouse- Approx demolition date?
Thanks, guys!
Being gone by 1981 makes sense, because I started driving around 1982-83, and I was unable to find it then.
Being gone by 1981 makes sense, because I started driving around 1982-83, and I was unable to find it then.
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 9:37 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Grand Rapids MC Roundhouse- Approx demolition date?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3426
Grand Rapids MC Roundhouse- Approx demolition date?
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 ...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 9:15 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GRE Spurs on the East Side
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6134
Re: GRE Spurs on the East Side
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...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:12 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Zug Island Works closing.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9341
Re: Zug Island Works closing.
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.