Looking for Bay City OLD TRACK info - map photo

[rustbeltrailroad]

I am looking for any info I can get about the following tracks and industries: company name, products, kind of cars it received... anything at all, memories... I am mainly concerned with 1970s and 1980s. Blue dots mark where old tracks were and still are. Thanks so much in advance!

[cmgnnut]

ID some of the roads for help as I don't see that as Bay City

[rustbeltrailroad]

That is Wilder Rd. there horizontal through the center of the screen. This is the D&M North Bay City yard. To the north is the D&M to Pinconning through the state park and Tobicco Marsh. To the south right is D&M's connection over the Saginaw River with the C&O at Foss Junction, and off the wye to the left is central Bay City. Top of the screen you see the track to Dow where the shipped (or received?) plastic pellets.

[cmgnnut]

A is Consumers power
F is Dow Plastics
B is Dow Chemical/nutcracker
G Straits Agg /D&M office
C Tank Farm
E GTW cross over
D Fletcher Oil/International Holmes

[rustbeltrailroad]

Thanks CMGNNUT, what do you mean by "GTW Crossover"? I did not think the GTW went over here? Any info on any of these industries? I am really wanting to find out about the aggregate port there... I highlighted where tracks used to be or still are.

[Atkinson_Railroad]

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, adolescent, railroad trespassing took place.

Unfortunately, I was out west in the service when the massive coal train derailment took place along North Water Street in the late 1970s.
I missed the burning Saginaw river oil tanker episode too.

Filing down to the river front to see the collapsed Third Street Bridge after being hit over night by the "Niagara" is a memory as well ; )

Bay City! The best bike riding town by Far!

John