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Michael wrote:I like your shot of ADBF in front of the state capital building.
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...
Michael wrote:I like your shot of ADBF in front of the state capital building.
Nice shots!!!
Shots#4, 5 and 6 above were taken on East Kalamazoo Street, looking west towards both the CSX and the JAIL railroad crossings in Lansing.
Shot #9 referring to "South Yard" was, at least back in the day when I worked there (PC Conrail NS), that yard was officially "Lansing Yard" in the employee timetables. Simply called "South Yard" because it was on the south side of town. Our old rules examiner would often try and trip people up by giving an train order example using "South Yard" in the body of the train order such as, "Engine 5649 run extra Rives Jct to South Yard" and see how many people would say that was a valid train order. The real "South Yard" (as listed in the timetable) was in Kalamazoo. I had to correct an NS train dispatcher once when he gave me a Form D and and referred to Lansing Yard as South Yard. Just a little history. We still called it South Yard most of the time though when using the radio, ect.
I used to get paid for doing what all of you like to watch!
^^^I like the stories and inside information, Hogger.
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...
Great photos! Glad to still see a bit of GT blue. Cory Yard is actually 4 miles west of your shots. The yard you photographed is between the stations of Hope and Mill and may not have a name in the current timetable, but was at one point was called "Lansing," and unofficially New Yard or Snow Rd. Yard.
A great capture of Lansing railroading, including some operating history in the form of GP9s and GTW blue!
I like your shot of ADBF in front of the state capital building.
I work just out of view to the right of this photo. Someday I'll be able to time my lunch in order to get a similar shot! Some weeks, it seems like the JAIL comes by lite units just as often as having cars!
Are there any free spots at the EL Amtrak station now or do you have to pay, even to railfan for just a little while?
GTW 5847 - Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
GTW 5847 - Cory Yard by tcamp7837, on Flickr
CSX Hi rail - Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
CSX Equipment - Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
CSX Track Equipment - Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
ADBF - Michigan State Capitol by tcamp7837, on Flickr
ADBF 1751 - Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
Jackson & Lansing RR - Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
Jackson & Lansing RR - South Yard by tcamp7837, on Flickr
CN 502 - CN Trowbridge by tcamp7837, on Flickr
CN 397 - East Lansing, MI by tcamp7837, on Flickr
