Grandville Depot

GP30M4216 · Unread post by **GP30M4216** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:45 pm

Some great photos of CSX depot buildings on this thread here.... since that time, the Fowlerville depot had an entirely new roof put on and looks little like it did historically.

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MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:55 am

MQT3001 wrote:99.9% of wooden poles are narrower at the top...they are trees! They might look more or less the same because they look smaller from farther away anyway...so it is a bit harder to pick out what's distance and what is actually reduction in diameter. My uncle works for a phone company and used to work on poles and whatnot...most of those residential poles carrying offshoots to properties are no more than a hand's length across at the top, despite decent size at the base.

I get that, but the early telephone poles look way better considering they were cut from old growth timber. Its more drastic in the diameter differences.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:40 am

polefan.com fight!

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:10 am

J T wrote:polefan.com fight!

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kenN · Unread post by **kenN** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:24 am

The tracks behind the depot were a team track, if anything at all. The interurban in Grandville ran along Prarie, which is a couple of blocks south of Chicago Drive, nowhere close to the C&O depot.

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:09 am

kenN wrote:The tracks behind the depot were a team track, if anything at all. The interurban in Grandville ran along Prarie, which is a couple of blocks south of Chicago Drive, nowhere close to the C&O depot.

No they actually ran along 30th meeting Chicago Drive at Wilson. They had a transfer area nearby for people wanting to board the PM.

kenN · Unread post by **kenN** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:58 am

Sorry, my bad. I knew it was 30th st. KJN

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:50 pm

kenN wrote:Sorry, my bad. I knew it was 30th st. KJN

Hey man were all human. Mistakes happen. I will add that there was an interchange in the Jenison area where the PM and GR,H&C could interchange freight.

Saturnalia · Unread post by **Saturnalia** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:13 am

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 5:29 pm

MQT3001 wrote:

Where in the world did you find that? That's weird I thought that main two was always one continuous track.

C&O6084 · Unread post by **C&O6084** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:28 am

Pic of the double track interurban was taken nowhere near Grandville; it was taken near what's now Port Sheldon and 8th Avenue.

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:30 am

C&O6084 wrote:Pic of the double track interurban was taken nowhere near Grandville; it was taken near what's now Port Sheldon and 8th Avenue.

I was just going off of the information provided from the picture, so I wasn't sure myself. It was in the Grandville section so that's all I had to go off of.

Saturnalia · Unread post by **Saturnalia** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:53 am

C&O6084 wrote:Pic of the double track interurban was taken nowhere near Grandville; it was taken near what's now Port Sheldon and 8th Avenue.

I think you forgot to post it ???

C&O6084 · Unread post by **C&O6084** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:26 am

Incorrect, Young Grasshopper. Contemplate your world as it extends far beyond a single "page up" or "page down" -- it's there. I'll leave your finding it as an exercise in diligence and attentiveness. Just don't take more than 45 seconds.

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:12 pm

C&O6084 wrote:Incorrect, Young Grasshopper. Contemplate your world as it extends far beyond a single "page up" or "page down" -- it's there. I'll leave your finding it as an exercise in diligence and attentiveness. Just don't take more than 45 seconds.

MQT3001 wrote:
C&O6084 wrote:Pic of the double track interurban was taken nowhere near Grandville; it was taken near what's now Port Sheldon and 8th Avenue.
I think you forgot to post it ???

this sounds like something I would do. Its a link to a pic Alex.

Saturnalia · Unread post by **Saturnalia** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:04 pm

I didn't realize has was referencing a link from the previous page...I went back and found it.

Usually, that sort of response comes with the link quoted. In no way an indictment on C&O...just that I was thrown off by it

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