Where Is It?

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LSRC wrote:This might be a difficult one. It was taken in Michigan.

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The switch at the end of the Amway Spur in Kentwood?
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MQT1223 wrote:
LSRC wrote:This might be a difficult one. It was taken in Michigan.

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The switch at the end of the Amway Spur in Kentwood?

More hints please!!

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~Z~ wrote:
AARR wrote:Hints?
~Z~ wrote:Where be it? Looks like the MOW crew giving the metal sign :)
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No hints; Pixl guessed Holly Michigan and was correct.
Strange. AARR already responded to this location identification above. And then he still wants to know where it is? :lol:
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Kentwood is incorrect. My first hint is that it was taken North of 1-96 and East of 131.

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LSRC wrote:Kentwood is incorrect. My first hint is that it was taken North of 1-96 and East of 131.
On the GRE just south of Lowell and and north of the Grand River.

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railrod1949 wrote:
LSRC wrote:Kentwood is incorrect. My first hint is that it was taken North of 1-96 and East of 131.
On the GRE just south of Lowell and and north of the Grand River.
The rails on the north side of the Grand in Lowell are used regularly.
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LSRC wrote:This might be a difficult one. It was taken in Michigan.

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Is it the west/southwest end of the spur that used to serve Woodard off of S Delaney Rd in Owosso?
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ImageIMG_1190 by tcamp7837, on Flickr

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ConrailDetr​oit wrote:ImageIMG_1190 by tcamp7837, on Flickr
I know where it is but I will let someone else try and guess it first. It sat there for a few days before it was removed. I wonder if they just pulled it across the street...

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Nope!

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LSRC wrote:Nope!

Somewhere on the CSX. or the H&E. I know it is not in the Upper Peninisula. Must be somewhere close to east of US-131 and north of I-96. If not, more hints please.

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80mac wrote:
ConrailDetr​oit wrote:ImageIMG_1190 by tcamp7837, on Flickr
I know where it is but I will let someone else try and guess it first. It sat there for a few days before it was removed. I wonder if they just pulled it across the street...
Well I don't know about the RR location, but it looks like someone pulled off the front clip of the car, maybe the engine too. Seems strange the grass isn't burnt and the front tire is intact. Must have been torched some where else then dumped there. What would be across the street? A scrap yard??

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West end of Livernois Yard?
ConrailDetr​oit wrote:ImageIMG_1190 by tcamp7837, on Flickr
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How about IDing the make and model of car for bonus points?

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So its not GLC or LSRC. It's somewhere close to north of I96 and east of US131. It's not Kentwood or Owosso.

Is it on MQT?
LSRC wrote:This might be a difficult one. It was taken in Michigan.

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AARR wrote:West end of Livernois Yard?
ConrailDetr​oit wrote:ImageIMG_1190 by tcamp7837, on Flickr
Correct. Along John Kronk at the west end of Livernois. Ferrous Scrap is across the street.

Round 2 can be how did the car get burned and how did it end up there. :lol:

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ConrailDetr​oit wrote:
AARR wrote:West end of Livernois Yard?
ConrailDetr​oit wrote:ImageIMG_1190 by tcamp7837, on Flickr
Correct. Along John Kronk at the west end of Livernois. Ferrous Scrap is across the street.

Round 2 can be how did the car get burned and how did it end up there. :lol:
Yes, indeed, the west end of Conrail SA Livernois Yard, in Detroit, Detroit City School District, Wayne County. Amtrak trains 351, 353, 355 westbound and trains 350, 352 and 354 eastbound currently operating between Pontiac and Chicago along John Kronk Avenue.

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AARR wrote:So its not GLC or LSRC. It's somewhere close to north of I96 and east of US131. It's not Kentwood or Owosso.

Is it on MQT?
No sir! Two hints: think industrial, and I'm only a few hundred feet away from water where I took this.

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LSRC wrote:
AARR wrote:So its not GLC or LSRC. It's somewhere close to north of I96 and east of US131. It's not Kentwood or Owosso.

Is it on MQT?
No sir! Two hints: think industrial, and I'm only a few hundred feet away from water where I took this.
South end of the wye of the spur that lead to the old GR Press printing plant from the GRE between Monroe Street SE and the Grand River. Or between Monroe Avenue SE and Taylor Avenue N. All in Grand Rapids.

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railrod1949 wrote:
LSRC wrote:
AARR wrote:So its not GLC or LSRC. It's somewhere close to north of I96 and east of US131. It's not Kentwood or Owosso.

Is it on MQT?
No sir! Two hints: think industrial, and I'm only a few hundred feet away from water where I took this.
South end of the wye of the spur that lead to the old GR Press printing plant from the GRE between Monroe Street SE and the Grand River. Or between Monroe Avenue SE and Taylor Avenue N. All in Grand Rapids.
I don't think that's it.
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