Where Is It?

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Saturnalia wrote: it is totally normal to run trains across, say the Waterlevel or on the GTW with only one unit.
Watch the CN trains and while they might have 2-3 units, it not uncommon to see only one on line.

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Pixl wrote: It also looks like a long train to have just one engine.
Up here in Traverse City where we are "train starved" my comment comes from the rail action I often see with two engines pulling one car. I could guess on the reasons this happens but it is quite a contrast to seeing a 40 to 90 car train with one engine.

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Somewhere in the Bay City/Saginaw area.
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Michael wrote:Somewhere in the Bay City/Saginaw area.
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Michael, I see a truck loading ramp on that building, but where is the railroad element in the picture?

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Double tracks passed on the left side of this building. I was hoping to find out if it ever was served by rail
Pixl wrote:
Michael wrote:Somewhere in the Bay City/Saginaw area.
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Michael, I see a truck loading ramp on that building, but where is the railroad element in the picture?

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Is this on the old line between Meredith Jct. and Hoyt? CMGN was the last operator of the line.
Michael wrote:Double tracks passed on the left side of this building. I was hoping to find out if it ever was served by rail
Pixl wrote:
Michael wrote:Somewhere in the Bay City/Saginaw area.
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Michael, I see a truck loading ramp on that building, but where is the railroad element in the picture?
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The homes in the background look like Zilwaukee, but if that's where it is, I don't know much about the history in that area.
Michael wrote:Somewhere in the Bay City/Saginaw area.
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Yes. The Belt Line
AARR wrote:Is this on the old line between Meredith Jct. and Hoyt? CMGN was the last operator of the line.
Michael wrote:Double tracks passed on the left side of this building. I was hoping to find out if it ever was served by rail

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Is Atwater Street on the right?
Michael wrote:Is this on the old line between Meredith Jct. and Hoyt? CMGN was the last operator of the line. Yes. The Belt Line
Double tracks passed on the left side of this building. I was hoping to find out if it ever was served by rail
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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...

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Sorry. Actually the west side Saginaw Belt line.

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Is that Durand St. on the right?
Michael wrote:Is Atwater Street on the right? Sorry. Actually the west side Saginaw Belt line.
Michael wrote:
Is this on the old line between Meredith Jct. and Hoyt? CMGN was the last operator of the line. Yes. The Belt Line
Double tracks passed on the left side of this building. I was hoping to find out if it ever was served by rail
Image
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...

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AARR wrote:Is that Durand St. on the right?
Michael wrote:Is Atwater Street on the right? Sorry. Actually the west side Saginaw Belt line.
Michael wrote:
Is this on the old line between Meredith Jct. and Hoyt? CMGN was the last operator of the line. Yes. The Belt Line
Double tracks passed on the left side of this building. I was hoping to find out if it ever was served by rail
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Got it! 1420 Hancock Street, S. Bates Street on the right, Court Street behind the building and Hancock Street in the foreground, all in Saginaw, Saginaw School District the City of, Saginaw County. Looking southwest along the former C&O Railway's West Side Belt Line toward Fordney, where the Saginaw Railway Museum is located. The Belt Line ran between Mershon and Fordney.
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Good job Rodney

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Looks like Four Mile Lake.

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Michael wrote:Image
Yes. that's Dexter-Chelsea Road at the NS/Amtrak Michigan Line crossing, looking east. About a mile east of Chelsea, in the Chelsea School District, Lima Township, Washtenaw County. Chelsea Grain can be seen at the far left. The area in the above shot have a Chelsea, MI 48118. That blue building at the far right is the Abrasive Finishing.

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GDLK going north approaching Grand Rapids Yard (Hughart)?
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AARR wrote:GDLK going north approaching Grand Rapids Yard (Hughart)?
PatAzo wrote:Image
It's similar to a view arriving at Hugart from a few weeks ago, but not this time.

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While the Grand Elk shot continues to make people scratch their heads, I'll throw this one into the ring.
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