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This is Larry G here..... When I started this thread on 12/17/2010 I didn't think it would take near TEN YEARS for it to come to pass. Heck I'm still alive to see it actually happen!! :lol: The Lesson here: BE PATIENT WHEN YOU POST!! :wink: :wink: Lansing's Old Town railroad spur to be reactivated P...

LSJ has updated story on this link from yesterday. Sad details today. Sad to see children so troubled to do this and the effect on all concerned, family, friends, and train crews.

Lansing State Journal Story and photo:

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/sto ... 421715002/

I understand WB M397 Is stopped in Haslett due to pedestrian suicide. WILX Ch 10 will have it later.

Link:http://woodtv.com/2017/10/27/driver-war ... byron-twp/

http://www.dailypress.net/news/local-ne ... -at-9-p-m/
Radio news is reporting it this morning. Link to news paper article attached.
Perhaps a local board reader will snap a few photos.

Thanks for the video link. I remember the switching moves down that line in the mid 1960's. Larry

Short Article in Sunday's Detroit Free Press:

Really wish they would move the dinner train over to the JAIL so they could actually go somewhere and tap into the Lansing market. Probably makes good business sense but would most likely be the demise of this shortline so hoping Dinner Train stays around here. On freight traffic: Someone mentioned...

The Eaton County Farm Bureau hasn't shipped a carload in several years off this line. In effect the line has no customers at this point. Storage is it besides the Dinner Train and that dried up for two years until now. CN dropped more tank cars today. About 20 so far on the line.

For the last two years CHS has pretty much been a once a month Dinner Train operation with an occasional extra run. However this has changed recently. On July 24 a track crew was busy regauging the connection at CN. Shortly after CN began dropping tank cars off for storage. Attached is an open albu...

For the last two years CHS has pretty much been a once a month Dinner Train operation with an occasional extra run. However this has changed recently. On July 24 a track crew was busy regauging the connection at CN. Shortly after CN began dropping tank cars off for storage. Attached is an open album...

It's too bad the tracks were removed for the neighbors in the area.

A Radio update on WUOM NPR Radio today. Listen and view the pictures!
http://michiganradio.org/post/company-c ... e-michigan

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/arti ... ak-station Link to photo and story here from Lansing State Journal.

I have seen them fuel their locomotive at the alternate location you mention, so is it possible that they parked it there so that it could be fueled? Makes sense that the hospital might not want a big fuel tank truck sitting in their parking lot next to those huge oxygen tanks there. That's a possi...

As of yesterday, July 18, the train set was plugged back in at its normal location. Never saw any track work etc that caused for the curious move to the main. Next scheduled trip comes in mid August.

Lansing State Journal http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20140717/NEWS01/307170050/Train-derailment-causes-temporary-closure-U-S-127-Gratiot-County ASHLEY — A rail crossing on U.S. 127 in southern Gratiot County has been reopened after a train derailed this afternoon. Three train cars loaded...

http://railroadfan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10888/thumb_image.jpg Click on Thumbnail to see larger picture from today. After the events of Saturday I happened to pass by today and found the train set returned to the previous location I referred to in the original post on this thread. Perhaps tra...

Update from Saturday: happened to drive through Charlotte again today about 2:00. Train was backed into the normal loading area west of depot. Crew in RR pick up truck were working on locomotive. Van with catering markings was backed up to kitchen car. Assume the train went out Saturday night per sc...

Just posting an unusual observation on the Dinner Train. For at least the last two days the dinner train has been setting on the main, shut down, non running, by the Fulton Lumber Yard between two city street crossings. This is very curious as it is always parked on the run around track, plugged int...