Where Is It?

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MKT_fan11 wrote:AARR- there are easily half a dozen people who post or read this site who probably recognize this location easily...I'm not sure what I could have said that wouldn't give it entirely away.
I understand, thanks.
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MKT_fan11 wrote:
Michael wrote:Image
Kinda looks like Rochelle.

Is it Trenton?

Close. Within 30 miles

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Michael wrote:
MKT_fan11 wrote:Is it Trenton?

Close. Within 30 miles
Monroe, looking toward the DTE plant? Track to the left goes to the dock terminal?
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AARR wrote:
Michael wrote:
MKT_fan11 wrote:Is it Trenton?

Close. Within 30 miles
Monroe, looking toward the DTE plant? Track to the left goes to the dock terminal?

Exactly!

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Michael wrote:Image
Pretty sure that is Saginaw/Carrollton
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AARR wrote:
Michael wrote:Image
Pretty sure that is Saginaw/Carrollton
Agreed. Along Carrollton Road. Gavilon Grain if I remember right.

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cnw8835 wrote:
AARR wrote:Pretty sure that is Saginaw/Carrollton
Agreed. Along Carrollton Road. Gavilon Grain if I remember right.
Unless the track arrangement has changed it takes a lot of switching to put together a unit train because of all the short tracks in the yard by the elevator. I've been told by someone who has worked the job that built unit trains there it can take up to a whole day.
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AARR wrote:
cnw8835 wrote:
AARR wrote:Pretty sure that is Saginaw/Carrollton
Agreed. Along Carrollton Road. Gavilon Grain if I remember right.
Unless the track arrangement has changed it takes a lot of switching to put together a unit train because of all the short tracks in the yard by the elevator. I've been told by someone who has worked the job that built unit trains there it can take up to a whole day.
You guys got it!

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Michael wrote:Image
I think that is in Flat Rock. Is it the driveway to Flat Rock Steel?
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AARR wrote:
Michael wrote:Image
I think that is in Flat Rock. Is it the driveway to Flat Rock Steel?
You got it AARR!

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Here's one. It's obviously a map. I've edited out the parts that would give it away. Good luck!

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MQT3001 wrote:Here's one. It's obviously a map. I've edited out the parts that would give it away. Good luck!

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Im pretty sure its Baldwin
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AARR wrote:
MQT3001 wrote:Here's one. It's obviously a map. I've edited out the parts that would give it away. Good luck!

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Im pretty sure its Baldwin
Baldwin it is. Figured it'd be pretty easy. I'll have to try something a little more difficult..
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MQT3001 wrote:
AARR wrote:Im pretty sure its Baldwin
Baldwin it is. Figured it'd be pretty easy. I'll have to try something a little more difficult..
Not that easy for me! I had to think about it for a while.
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Here's number two:

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MQT3001 wrote:Here's number two:

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Muskegon?
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Agreed, North Yard in Muskegon.
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~Z~ wrote:Agreed, North Yard in Muskegon.
Correct! Looks like I'll have to get more creative with these...
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