Plymouth Sub Searchlights

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Plymouth Sub Searchlights

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Going to venture down the Plymouth Sub tomorrow, hopefully, to shoot Q329 between some searchlights. I don't want to venture too far from Grand Rapids, so where is the closest searchlight to Grand Rapids? Is it Lake Odessa?

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kd_1014 wrote:Going to venture down the Plymouth Sub tomorrow, hopefully, to shoot Q329 between some searchlights. I don't want to venture too far from Grand Rapids, so where is the closest searchlight to Grand Rapids? Is it Lake Odessa?
Everything from EE Lake Odessa to Ensel - exclusive - is searchlights.

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Re: Plymouth Sub Searchlights

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Saturnalia wrote:
kd_1014 wrote:Going to venture down the Plymouth Sub tomorrow, hopefully, to shoot Q329 between some searchlights. I don't want to venture too far from Grand Rapids, so where is the closest searchlight to Grand Rapids? Is it Lake Odessa?
Everything from EE Lake Odessa to Ensel - exclusive - is searchlights.

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With the exception of Ensel to North Lansing, and a few random intermediates east of there, everything from Lake Odessa to Beck Road in Plymouth is search lights.
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Technically, at the moment there is modern equipment (not searchlights) from the intermediate west of Ensel at the Airport to MA Jct, inclusive. An exception is a lone searchlight installation for westbounds at Ensel on a high mast. Also, the signals at the two junctions east of Ensel are safe trans equipment but use C&O signal rules, displaying the high red over low red stop aspect and others typical of the “old C&O” south of Michigan. More then you wanted to know! :lol:
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IIRC, there’s a triple headed searchlight guarding Trowbridge

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kd_1014 wrote:IIRC, there’s a triple headed searchlight guarding Trowbridge
Most of the sidings have 3 headed signals.
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