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Digging it up again!!!
Any updates? Have I missed another thread on this???

SPARTAN VICTORY!!!!!!!
It's been nice knowing you, Rich. These past 3 years have been great.

I did not expect any member of this board to condone the behavior of those involved. Anyone with any respect for the concept of responsible behavior must condemn those actions. The sad part is that there are parents that actually raise their children with such lax values and disrespect for the the ...

I think the person should be exposed because those of us in the Michigan Railfan Community should know who to watch out for and report to RR Police and stay away from, if we don't know already (Not saying I don't know any, as I know a few). Its not good to have 5,000 PO'd railfans watching your eve...

redside20 wrote: Um Seth, apparently you don't get my dry humor I was joking about Diann Jct, but i like Diann because of the tower itself

HAHAHAHAHA I'm sorry. It's kind of hard to connote sarcasm in text. I was shocked by this post, thank you for proving your sanity.

I just finished reading the new trains magazine article on Seattle. In one portion it mentions how "BNSF has since sold off it's chip fleet." Does this mean that fewer woodchips are moving by rail, or does in mean that the cars are now privately owned? It seems that with the rise in biomass energy t...

redside20 wrote:Diann Jct if you like to seeing 2 to 4 trains a day and if you like being out in the middle of nowhere.

He asked for places that were busier than Durand. Diann is about 1/2 to 1/3 as busy as Durand. Unless you know approximately when a train will be running there, don't waste your time.

pica wrote:Nobody has mentioned Plymouth!!!

For good reason. You can see a lot of the same trains in Romulus, which is in addition to all of the "Wabash" trains.

Romulus, you can park at the back of the bank lot and nobody will bother you. Best choice if you want to see mainline road trains. Wyandotte may give you some ok levels of traffic, but it's better in the evening/at night. Park at the American Legion or whatever it is on Oak Street. Let CharlieX90 kn...

Just because you quit paying taxes and such on these "things" does not equate equaly, I cant prove it or even have enought inside info, but something tells me that just because they repeal a half percent tax, means that you will automaticly get half percent back. I would think it would be more like...

Ummmm.....Railroad were there first, long before the Interstate system. And just because the interstate system is there there is no need for Amtrak. That is absurd. Just because there is one mode of transportation, or even two, that dont mean it should not be there, even if it is the most expensive...

You would not be able to afford to go anywhere other then on bike and walking. By the time you factor in payment to employes, mechinacs, drivers, gas, matinence, ect, even taking the bus, would cost twice to three times as much. What? Why would it cost anything different than what it does now? You ...

This should help too: http://www.railwayage.com/breaking-news/can-rails-handle-soaring-export-wheat-demand.html The Surface Transportation Board announced Friday that is has scheduled a meeting of the National Grain Car Council for Sept. 16 to discuss the readiness of U. S. railroads to move export ...

M.D.Bentley wrote:It would be alot easier to track with a car number.

I had a video of it but it got erased from my camera.

RRTTF wrote:Thats the new car for the new Detroit to Ann Arbor high speed rail service which is supposed to get started in October.

There was never high-speed rail planned. It was a commuter train between the two cities. It was cancelled many months back last I heard.

Yes, CSX_CO, I see your point, but I don't agree that we should stop subsidizing interstate highways. My point is that the interstate system is already there, so there is really no need to run Amtrak to transport these people when there are other modes of long-distance transport that are less expens...

nssd70m-2 wrote:I saw that car in Swanton on the Chicago line about 2 weeks ago.

That was exactly one week ago from today. It was on the tail end of a westbound manifest.

Don't know where you are getting those figures Shorthaul; Amtrak's biggest expense is running and maintaining the NEC. I bet that if you compare just how much they make off the corridor with ALL the costs associated with it to what Amtrak actually pays the host railroads for track maintainence and ...

Kalamazoo boards the second most passengers in the State, after Ann Arbor. Starting/ending the train in Kalamazoo eliminates needing to run on the NS in Michigan, which makes things easier and prevents some delays, although they still have to run on the NS from Butler into Chicago, which is where mo...

It's really neat to see those South Shore cars in action. Those are very similar (or the same) to the one we have at the Southern Michigan Railroad.