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- Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Grades
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13894
Re: Michigan Grades
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...
- Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:47 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: BO (Botsford) Tower Demolition
- Replies: 67
- Views: 44819
Re: BO (Botsford) Tower Demolition
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 ...
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:48 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Pere Marquette Berkshires
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10200
Re: Pere Marquette Berkshires
The whistle "actuator" was a short (5-6 inch) long handle that was depressed. It was air actuated. (At least on 1225 it was.)
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:37 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
Not sure where the pic was taken at but if it was between Jackson and Three Rivers the track is gone.
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Grand Elk NYC Signals
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5955
Re: Grand Elk NYC Signals
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 ...
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:38 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Amtrak ticket agents
- Replies: 78
- Views: 52640
Re: Amtrak ticket agents
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.
- Sat Nov 16, 2019 4:40 am
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: 1225 "Polar Express™" with ex GTW GP9!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14353
Re: 1225 "Polar Express™" with ex GTW GP9!!!!
It will not be used this weekend, is not ready, look for GLC 392.
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Charlotte Live Railcam
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11078
Re: Charlotte Live Railcam
I'll bet that the ATCS group will have something to say about this, you wait.
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:33 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Another Grand Elk Derailment in Kalamazoo.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6423
Re: Another Grand Elk Derailment in Kalamazoo.
Yeah, just 3 miles. Short by tody's standards!
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:01 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Another Grand Elk Derailment in Kalamazoo.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6423
Re: Another Grand Elk Derailment in Kalamazoo.
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.
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:38 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
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.
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:04 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
Different angle.
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:19 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
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.
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 12:44 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Lansing, MI 9.24.18
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10958
Re: Lansing, MI 9.24.18
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...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:19 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
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.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:06 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Steam Railroading Institute purchases C&NW #175
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9843
Re: Steam Railroading Institute purchases C&NW #175
76 has finally left the building! The running gear and tender frame left yesterday (7/1) around noon-12:30pm.
- Wed May 02, 2018 11:04 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
Which stickler are you talking about? Google says the same thing I did, Isbell, not Isabell.
- Tue May 01, 2018 6:21 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
Might very well be the fact. We just never believed back then that it would all go away.
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
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...
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:04 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 1967758
Re: Where Is It?
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 ...