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Make that the Barton Park footbridge.

I guess by the time I get down there, though, it wont be the Norfolk Southern line, it will be the Michigan Central Railway.

-Mike

Okay, if I'm understanding correctly, only one train a day each way across the AA trestle at Argo Dam, and at present they're not running in daylight. If I want to try to catch the AA swapping cars with the GLC I should go to the Osmer Siding between between Warren and Joy (conveniently marked on wi...

I've been considering a day trip down to Ann Arbor for some railroad photography. Since Googling didn't provide an answer, I thought i'd ask here--does anyone know what the weekday train count is like? I assume the bulk of the traffic will be on the E-W Norfolk Southern line, but I'm really hoping t...

CSX main is occupied from west end Williamston to east end Trowbridge until 0930. Two maintainers (or inspectors) in a CSX track car, heading eastbound from MP81 (Okemos Road). Not sure what they're out there for.

Anyone know if the break at Brighton has been repaired yet?

-Mike

Overheard CSX Dispatcher Calumet City this morning advising the conductor of X500 that a grain train passing through Brighton at about 5am "broke a rail" on the main. The main at Brighton is closed and traffic is being routed on the siding until repairs are complete. Q335 westbound at Okemos Road at...

I'm betting that this was one of the bilevels that took a tumble in the Gibralter derailment. (Does anyone have IDs on the damaged/derailed cars?)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/railhead799/2270849735/

-Mike

Finally got it sussed, thank you. This is really terribly cool.

I wish it were so, but it has to be something else. Loading the profile is what starts the "Not monitoring - Monitoring - Connection rejected" sequence.

That should be "Connection error 10061"

Okay, I must have missed an important detail somewhere along the way. I have the program installed, MDAC in place, the .ini, .lay, and .mcp files in the correct subdirectories. I followed the steps in your helpful message above. But after I load the profile, I get the following series of messages on...

Or maybe this direct link will work:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/railhead79 ... 5/sizes/l/

I don't know if it will help, but when you follow the Flickr link, click "All Sizes" to see the full-size (1024x768) image.

Last Thanksgiving weekend I spotted a train of Grand Trunk MOW units eastbound on the CN main in East Lansing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/railhead799/2265409415/ I'm having trouble identifying all the units of this consist. The trailing unit is a Plasser Track Stabilizer: http://www.flickr.com/pho...

Here are a couple of views of the rest of the train:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/railhead799/2266142098/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/railhead799/2265351955/

Not much work getting done in the weather we've had here lately, though.

-Michael

It (or another one like it) was back in East Lansing yesterday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/railhead799/2266115628/

pulling a flatcar and a crane. I lucked into seeing it passing the Amtrak station.

-Michael

Purely by chance, I sighted the CN Santa Train led by IC 100 and IC 101 passing westbound through East Lansing at about 2:20PM today (Dec 16, 2007). We were en route to a concert on the Michigan State University campus, and were stopped at the Bogue Street crossing by a sight I never expected to see...