Where Is It?

[Michael]

The spur that serviced this grainery came about 1000 feet off the main crossing the road in front of this place.
I am actually making an assumption this place was served by rail based on topo maps and what we can see in the photo.
Now the tracks end about a half mile from this location.

[AARR]

So it's not Vestaburg. How about Litchfield?

The spur that serviced this grainery came about 1000 feet off the main crossing the road in front of this place.
I am actually making an assumption this place was served by rail based on topo maps and what we can see in the photo.
Now the tracks end about a half mile from this location.

[railrod1949]

The spur that serviced this grainery came about 1000 feet off the main crossing the road in front of this place.
I am actually making an assumption this place was served by rail based on topo maps and what we can see in the photo.
Now the tracks end about a half mile from this location.

Litchfield Grain, Inc. on M-49, Litchfield, MI on the former LM&MS Railroad. In the Litchfield Community Schools district, Hillsdale County. It's have a Litchfield, MI 49252 address.
Just little southeast of the above shot is the Michigan South Central Power Plant on the north side Of Herring Road, just east of M-49. It's the remaining rail customer of INER RR. The main line trackage now ends just northwest of the power plant. The old NYC trackage between Albion and just northwest of St. joe Street, Litchfield via Homer was abandoned in 1943. The grainery spur had a connection with the main line trackage, just south of St. Joe Street, Litchfield.

[James Sofonia]

The spur that serviced this grainery came about 1000 feet off the main crossing the road in front of this place.
I am actually making an assumption this place was served by rail based on topo maps and what we can see in the photo.
Now the tracks end about a half mile from this location.

It would seem that the spur went off to the NW to connect to the main line. Looking at Google Earth and street view you can vaguely see the angled alignment of the drive into Marshall Street Motors, but beyond that there is no visible sign a spur was ever there. Can you put up the topo you were looking at?

[~Z~]

Have an out of state one, but there should be enough markers here to tell. If you can guess the railline and not specific location, that'll work well enough.
http://i.imgur.com/w89rNC9.jpg

[Michael]

It would seem that the spur went off to the NW to connect to the main line. Looking at Google Earth and street view you can vaguely see the angled alignment of the drive into Marshall Street Motors, but beyond that there is no visible sign a spur was ever there. Can you put up the topo you were looking at?

Good job AARR. This is the topo from 1948
The main is now a short rail trail in town and at one point (before 1948) the line continued north to Homer.
Just a little to the south is the coal power plant.

[PatAzo]

Have an out of state one, but there should be enough markers here to tell. If you can guess the railline and not specific location, that'll work well enough.
http://i.imgur.com/w89rNC9.jpg

Arizona 98 crossing the Black Mesa and Lake Powell near the Navajo Generating station (northwest end of the railroad). The danger high voltage sign and desert scene were the giveaways.

[~Z~]

Righto PatAzo, figured the high voltage and desert parts would help

[railrod1949]

Have an out of state one, but there should be enough markers here to tell. If you can guess the railline and not specific location, that'll work well enough.
http://i.imgur.com/w89rNC9.jpg

Arizona 98 crossing the Black Mesa and Lake Powell near the Navajo Generating station (northwest end of the railroad). The danger high voltage sign and desert scene were the giveaways.

Yes, agreed, that's Arizona 98 crossing the Black Mesa and Lake Powell RR southeast of Page, AZ, south of the Utah border, in the Page Unified Schools District, in Coconino County, AZ. Its looking southeast from the Navajo Generating Station (which is to the northwest of Arizona Highway 98). Its have a Page, AZ 86040 address.

[Michael]

Another one for you AARR

[Jetlink]

Have an out of state one, but there should be enough markers here to tell. If you can guess the railline and not specific location, that'll work well enough.
http://i.imgur.com/w89rNC9.jpg

Arizona 98 crossing the Black Mesa and Lake Powell near the Navajo Generating station (northwest end of the railroad). The danger high voltage sign and desert scene were the giveaways.

County, school district, and zip code are required for you to receive full credit.

[AARR]

Vermontville?

Another one for you AARR

[PatAzo]

Have an out of state one, but there should be enough markers here to tell. If you can guess the railline and not specific location, that'll work well enough.
http://i.imgur.com/w89rNC9.jpg

Arizona 98 crossing the Black Mesa and Lake Powell near the Navajo Generating station (northwest end of the railroad). The danger high voltage sign and desert scene were the giveaways.

County, school district, and zip code are required for you to receive full credit.

, in the Page Unified Schools District, in Coconino County, AZ. Its looking southeast from the Navajo Generating Station (which is to the northwest of Arizona Highway 98). Its have a Page, AZ 86040 address.

[Jetlink]

I agree, I think it is Vermontville too. I've been by it many times.

[railrod1949]

Vermontville?

Another one for you AARR

Agree, also. it's Vermontville, looking west along the old NYC ROW (former MC, former NYC) in Vermontville, Maple Valley Schools district, Vermont Township, Eaton County.
It's have a Vermontville, MI 49096 address. The grainery in the photo above is the Citizens LLC.

[Schteinkuh]

Let's take a quick moment to appreciate the MVPs of the internet for this kind of thing

https://heatst.com/tech/he-will-not-div ... -troll-it/

Regardless of political affiliation, you have to admit it's pretty outstanding.

[Saturnalia]

Let's take a quick moment to appreciate the MVPs of the internet for this kind of thing

https://heatst.com/tech/he-will-not-div ... -troll-it/

Regardless of political affiliation, you have to admit it's pretty outstanding.

OMG that's great. You know you're into it when you use weather patterns, air traffic control, star gazing and honking horns to find a flagpole.

Capture the flag indeed.

[MQT1223]

Here's what I believe to be a hard one. You could cross this spot a thousand times and never know that a grade crossing even existed here.

The car in the driveway to the right is sitting on the ROW, and the tracks crossed diagonally from there to the bottom left of this picture. There is actually an old tie still in the ditch, and the ROW is so overgrown that it is impassible on the left side of this road.

A small hill on the right near the car marks what is left of the grade on the opposite side of the road. The rest as they say, is lost to history.

[~Z~]

The car in the driveway to the right

What car in the driveway to the right? Did you upload the correct photo?

[MQT1223]

The car in the driveway to the right

What car in the driveway to the right? Did you upload the correct photo?

I did. There is a bush blocking the car I did not mention. The garage, just to the left of it there is a car that is mostly obscured by the bush. Sorry about any discrepancies.