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Referring to "Linda" from the Jones family? That would certainly tie in with Downriver. I'm wondering if I'm chatting here with someone who knows one of my "shirt-tail" relatives. Thanks for your reply M. D. Since posting the question here, I did discover quite a few various O and HO models of the c...

Refurbishing and making some changes to the wrecking crane I built in the late ‘80s, and have found a photo of DT&I X402 with both the old raised herald, and the compass logo on the side of the crane. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnebula.wsimg.com%2Fdc9d080433762d1af9145fb8e8ba1...

Recently re-discovered some slide photographs of Flat Rock taken in 1967. The photos capture the yard before the reconstruction program of that time was completed. http://www.pbase.com/visual_first/flatrock_1967 Another striking thing about the pictures is the complete absence of rail-car graffiti. ...

GTW RR: GRAND RIVER BRIDGE (c. 1910) Over Grand River, east of U.S.-31 Grand Haven, Michigan Muskegon 16.563060.4769025 Ottawa This steel swing bridge carries the Grand Trunk Western Railroad line across the Grand River just north of Grand Haven. The swing span is approximately 150 feet long and 14 ...

Scrolling the photos of the C&O Historical Society web site brings back fond adolescent memories of hanging around the various railroad points in the Bay City / Essexville communities during the ‘60s to mid 1970s. This photo from the site recalls very well the Multi-Unit switching locomotives that w...

Railroad History along The Saginaw Valley Rail Trail

You Tube URL below:

https://youtu.be/1CAoBfAypRY

John

Unanticipated photo opportunity taken haphazardly early afternoon 8-25-2015 of LSRC424.

Location: East of Lake State Railway R-O-W from S. 20th Street, north of Perkins Street at block signals.

John

A couple years ago while riding the Saginaw Valley Rail Trail, I noticed a mile post marked with a "J" and a "90" on the east side of the right-of-way about 4 miles north of Saint Charles. It sparked an interest in learning what the "J" could possibly indicate. A quick browsing of a Michigan map cle...

It seems only [fitting] to add the words below as written in General Railway Signal Company's book titled, "Elements of Railway Signaling". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On July 25, 1927, the first centralized ...

The attached PDF screen shot is from a 1913 map found at the USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer. http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/ It's a very difficult site to navigate, yet worth exploring with patience. I too, have been rekindling interest in Bay City for it's where all my delinquent, ...