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That track was installed at the request of Saline as industrial term track.

When solar gets covered by ice and snow power output drops, then you will look like Texas last winter

DTE owns the coke coven plant on Zug Island, ships to many different buyers.

You can see lots rail still in place, it was in use when they started the first scrapping operation. Mostly to move railroad related equipment around for scrapping.

Your's hand is great, you should see mine.

The reason MIGN got MP 0 to MP 50 was court action on MDOT for lack of payment, MIGN went into receivership, and bought out - later by WATCO!

I have in my a picture of UTLX 80209 1972 era by David Woodruff in Dundee Cement paint, they also had 70 ton cars with Dundee Cement similiar to Ann Arbor RR cars.

The wise thing she did, when the power goes out, you lose control over many un-friendly things.

Last photo Northwest corner of 80 inch mill

The Track they were running on until 1932 via lease from NYC or LS&MS, the NYC own the track, LS&MS operating assignment at that time.

A 'New York Central Central' oval herald appears next to the door. It is not the Ann Arbor wreck crane

Which wrecker do you have?

The south end was to Michigan & Ohio Sand & Gravel company, remains of their loader foundation is this there, their operation site was east of the Ann Arbor tracks supplied many car loads of gravel to ballast the Annie, pictures in Howell Library collection, you can copy. They had a small 2-6-0, and...

Also in the village of Rea, church, store, and elevator on the map.

From which railroad are the boxcars?

Fire tube is continual project with wash out; Water tube the lower drums (called mud drums) have to be inspected and cleaned as necessary about once a year, steam have remove all steam separator equipment from inside for inspection only done on major boiler inspections about 3 years period. Todays w...

Rick - It depends on the type of boiler, I operated water tube boiler which the a tube will fail before any of the drums. When we test it with safety valves removed, this 1st step to find bad connection of tubes to drums, we do this normally with boiler feed pumps which will reach 150% of boiler pre...

This is way many cities require a boiler operator based on the type on boiler you are going to operate - I was one the licensed operator - operating at 2600 psi. My boilers were checked by the State and insurance company inspect on routine, and the company also checked the boilers and piping. The op...

The first stage of the yard was built, the West side of the yard was not, nor was the engine house and water and coaling. Hallet tower had many interchange railroad connections to handle, the west yard had as many planned for it.

It does look like the bridge and the paint on the engine is similar to a Ann Arbor RR engine, but this appears to be one of the Wabash engines leased by Ann Arbor RR - its missing the white edge on the walkway that Ann Arbor engines carried to indicated they where equipped for passenger service.