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What's the grade like around Lake Odessa on the CSX Plymouth Sub? For a relatively flat area through Mid-Michigan, it's rather noticeable. On a side note, the "Lake O Dip" as it is known, almost exactly mirrors the grade into and out of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. CSX engineers on the CP trains wil...

Speaking of Calvin (Humphreys), one of his more favorite stunts when he wasn't busy was to open the OS at Parma, the microphone was hung under the eve on the phone booth, key up the dispatcher's radio when the train would be blowing for the crossing at Parma and you would literally hear yourself go ...

The whistle "actuator" was a short (5-6 inch) long handle that was depressed. It was air actuated. (At least on 1225 it was.)

Not sure where the pic was taken at but if it was between Jackson and Three Rivers the track is gone.

The "current" line north from Kalamazoo to GR was the former Pennsy. There was a "NYC" line also between the two cities but that was taken up a LONG time ago. The current line coming into GR from the south (Not the former Pennsy) that ran by Steelcase, Keebler's ect was the former NYC that ran from ...

I'll bet all of the nay-sayers on this topic shooting down the Ticket Agents freely embrace the self-checkout lines at any store they find time to go to when they break free of their computers.

It will not be used this weekend, is not ready, look for GLC 392.

I'll bet that the ATCS group will have something to say about this, you wait.

Yeah, just 3 miles. Short by tody's standards!

Might be either string lining or make-up of the train. I've went around that curve hundreds of times during the PC-Conrail-NS days and never had any problems. Longest train I took around there was 150 empty multi-levels, 3 miles long.

I might have had an unfair advantage, operated over that line hundreds (at least) of times when I worked for PC, CR, and NS. I remember when it was still double track.

Different angle.

I'm guessing what used to be the Michigan Line, now Amtrak I guess, between August and Galesburg, with M-96 that it looks like we're standing on.

Shot #9 referring to "South Yard" was, at least back in the day when I worked there (PC Conrail NS), that yard was officially "Lansing Yard" in the employee timetables. Simply called "South Yard" because it was on the south side of town. Our old rules examiner would often try and trip people up by g...

Looks like one of the old paper mills in Kalamazoo, at Alcott St. Can't remember the name of the plant but it was just north of South Yard on the Kalamazoo Secondary.

76 has finally left the building! The running gear and tender frame left yesterday (7/1) around noon-12:30pm.

Which stickler are you talking about? Google says the same thing I did, Isbell, not Isabell.

Might very well be the fact. We just never believed back then that it would all go away.

I would guess sometime in the 80's. Don't really remember. What we referred to as the "South NYC actually ran from Turner St (off the C&O) down to the Cedar Interlocking, then further south across Logan St (now MLK Blvd) to a couple of car lengths south of the switch to Reid Machinery, (when I worke...

I wasn't born until 1952 but in the 50's most engines were kept at the Gier St roundhouse about a mile north of what everybody now knows as North Lansing. The Engineer would get on the engine there at the roundhouse and run it by himself down to North Lansing and pick up the rest of the crew at the ...