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Amazon is building a large distribution center on the former fair ground site at 8 Mile and Woodward. Currently, a portion of the fairgrounds along the CN Holly Sub are being used for container yard operations at Moterm. One would think that Amazon’s supply chain experts selected this location for ...

joeyuboats wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:36 am

Amazon is getting to be like CVS----one on every corner. They are at the old Ford Plant at 23 and Shelby, !0 Mile and Dequindre/John R, soon to be 14 Mile and Mound, and now this---wow!

. And this one is MUCH bigger than the others- the volume is staggering.

New business for the Holly Sub and Moterm Container terminal? It was announced yesterday that Amazon will build a major logistics hub on the former Michigan State Fairgrounds site at Woodward and 8-Mile. The site would have the ability for direct access to the CN Moterm container site, and potential...

Great Lakes Steel sent lay-off notices to 1,545 employees that the plant on Zug Island and Ecorse will be idled April 2020. This will be a blow to the employees, Great Lakes shipping, suppliers, and economy Down River. Shocking as it made it through the 2009 recession. A sad day! https://www.crainsd...

I was train watching about 7 years ago I was on the former C&NW, and I was doing night photos of a coaling tower in winter. A UP train passed that had a burning axle on it. My friend had a radio that was capable of transmitting (he works for another RR), but there was no way in hell we''d talk on it...

Considering what Ford has given Detroit over the past century, that people are griping about this I find interesting. Nobody squawked much at almost a billion dollars going for a sports stadium (LCA) when the city was bankrupt. The economic impact of this is huge, and people will use the facility da...

Those are still in there? I grew up in Jackson, remember them as a kid. I believe they were bought for some kind of restaurant and never used. They would have came in on the GT, and the last GT train in Jackson was 73 I believe.

A451 just passed through Moterm with CN #2447 as lead unit @ 12:02, would look nice in Durand or points west-

Cinderpath wrote:

blueheron13 wrote:NB through Royal Oak on Holly Sub at 8:22 pm. BC Rail locomotive leading.

I saw it as well, did you catch the number?

Somebody OS'ed it: BCOL 4603 and CN 2558!

blueheron13 wrote:NB through Royal Oak on Holly Sub at 8:22 pm. BC Rail locomotive leading.

I saw it as well, did you catch the number?

Heads up 451 headed to Durand with BNSF #9227 lead, CN #2228(?), IC #1007 past Moterm @12:27

Heads up: Holly Sub IC #1021, 1026 BNSF #4599 Past Pleasant Ridge @ 16:13 MP 10 on manifest, nice light, headed to Durand.

CN 451 w/ CN 2422 leading up the Holley Sub past Ferndale @14:02 with approximately 110 cars. Happy New Year!

Southbound autorack train past WOODWARD Heights in Pleasant Ridge with a pair of BNSF H2 dash-9s in decent paint @18:52. Led by BNSF #4075.

cnw8835 wrote:Just as a heads up, word on the street is that the Erie heritage unit is on a 62T from Middletown, OH up to Wayne. Unknown if it has departed Middletown yet.

Currently in Toledo, Phillips Rd. Waiting for Detroit crew-

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=403397&nseq=23 Special Thanks to the engineer on NS #4271; you held back on the throttle enough to allow a "Rolling Meet" of NS #1067 Reading Heritage unit, in the last few minutes of the day. Also thanks to Dave David S. Patch, for the heads up! This "L...

To be honest, who really cares? I could care less if people trespass on RR property-

So I picked up my Volt about two weeks ago: There are lease deals to be had on this vehicle for less than $250 a month. My reasons for the Volt were multifold: 1: Engineering, this vehicle won the "European Car of Year 2012", something we can really be proud of, no American vehicle has ever won this...

Yeah- I've only been a 20 year + Mac user, and grudgingly had to deal with PC's at work, and not once had a major hardware failure, or a virus, when I think back on all of the time I saved not dealing with PC problems, I am quite satisfied with my decision. And no I'm not going to put a bunch anti-v...

Here is my beef with the volt: it's development was federally funded. If the market wanted the car, GM would've put toward the money. It was a case of spending more money for political gain....and it's the money I put into govt as taxes hoping that we'd all benefit from...but we all don't. Nissan g...