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At the late 70s/early 80s, the only customers on the DT&I/N&W north of the PC/LCRC crossing in Adrian were:

*Fisher Body (Tecumseh)
*Cutler-Dickison Company (Adrian)

There may have been a customer between the PC/LCRC crossing and the N&W main line, but I don't know for sure.

You have to remember that the DT&I didn't run north of the Fisher Body plant into Tecumseh much past '68 or '69. By the time Conrail came to be this part of the line was overgrown and unused. There were also supposedly issues with the many trestles on the DT&I line north of Adrian. This wasn't reall...

Today I published the last part of the late Edward Hodges' 3-part history of the railroads in Tecumseh.

Links to all three parts can be found on the main page:

https://tecumsehjunction.com

N&W served the Fisher Body/Inland Guide plant at Tecumseh until 1983.

And there's this:

Lenawee County Commissioner addresses allegations of corruption

https://www.tecumsehherald.com/content/ ... YmsuVDgsII

Railroad 'deeply troubled' by lack of transparency over Project Phoenix Published by Tecumseh Herald on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 8:18am Editor’s note: The proposed Lenawee Community Complex, under the name Project Phoenix, on the former property of the Tecumseh Products has raised questions and concerns fr...

The segment to Brooklyn was to serve customers there (a lumber yard and perhaps something else). The local came off the CN from Cement City.

There was also a segment retained between Brooklyn and Cement City, being serviced from the Cincinnati Northern line.

I can remember the railroad crossing on M-50 as a kid. It must have come out circa 1970.

The DT&I last came into Tecumseh ca. 1969. After that they were only coming as far north as the Fisher Body plant. The tracks, however, remained intact into the mid-80s. For some more information on the DT&I in Tecumseh, have a look at these two articles: http://tecumsehjunction.com/2017/01/04/the-d...

There were at least two separate spurs into Tecumseh Products. The first left the main line south of Russell Road and curved into a center section of the complex. I remember seeing 50' boxcars being switched in here in the very early 70s. After that, this spur was unused. I suspect the spur was used...

This was called the "Bankers Cutoff".

A little tidbit on it you will find here:

http://tecumsehjunction.com/2017/03/31/ ... the-1950s/

To answer some of these questions: 1. I don't believe "Stubbies" received any 86-footers; photos show 50-footers. 2. The spur that crossed Michigan Street served the Page Woven Wire Fence Company according to the 1916 Sanborn map. 3. The DT&I line into Tecumseh was sold in the late 1970s to N&W, but...

On Tuesday, 10 April, the Tecumseh Area Historical Society will be hosting local rail historian Ed Hodges, who will be making a presentation and slide show on the history of the railroads in Tecumseh. Ed has an extensive collection of slides of the Clinton line taken through the 70s and early 80s, a...

Something else—I've "heard", that when the Fisher Body plant first opened in 1965, traffic to/from the plant was interchanged with the NYC at Tecumseh for some time, due to the poor condition of the trestles on the DT&I between the plant and Adrian. As a small child (I was born in '65), I can rememb...

Fisher Body in Tecumseh was an upholstery trim plant. My dad worked there from the time it opened in 1965 until the time it was closed. They cut and sewed upholstery for car seats, side panels, dashboards. I'm not entirely clear how loads/empties worked at the plant, as there was also a large truck ...

DT&I didn't venture into Tecumseh itself after about 1968-70.

My friend in Tecumseh also says that the Hayden Mill was pretty much winding down operations in the early 70s, and not doing anything by rail. The whole complex burned in a spectacular fire in the mid 70s.

Thank you for posting the scan. Most interesting. It appears most of the cars on the list were given to the N&W at Napoleon (507 code). I'm also surprised there are no cars for the Fisher Body plant near Tecumseh. I've asked around, and haven't come up with any answers about the covered hoppers of w...

By the 1970s, the former line to Monroe had been cut back to Ida, and was the PC's "Ida Branch". So I don't think Monroe is the answer to this question. This is a long-shot, but possible: in Tecumseh there was the Hayden Milling Co., which was a joint NYC/PC—DT&I customer. By the early 70s, the DT&I...

We looked at them for the SMRS back in the early 80s. They were in pretty bad shape then. If I remember correctly, one was in the GTW black/white "modern" scheme and the other in the earlier olive and black scheme.

I just posted some vintage (1988) video of the N&W running from Defiance to Napoleon, taken by Doug Leffler:

http://tecumsehjunction.com/2016/12/31/ ... irca-1988/