Where Is It?
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There are a limited number of places this could be so no clues right off.
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Not Escanaba. It's 1971 that's me in the white shirt (not that that helps).~Z~ wrote:Gonna try for Escanaba MI.
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The Lower Harbor Ore Dock in Marquette. Still stands but without the approach trestle.PatAzo wrote:Not Escanaba. It's 1971 that's me in the white shirt (not that that helps).~Z~ wrote:Gonna try for Escanaba MI.
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Yes, the former Soo Line dock at Marquette's Lower Harbor.
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A train and an ice jam. The track is gone but the bridge remains.
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Grand Rapids is my guess as well.~Z~ wrote:I'll wager a Grand Rapids guess.
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The Blue bridge, which was the old GR&I RR bridge, across the Grand River, Grand Rapids.Jetlink wrote:Grand Rapids is my guess as well.~Z~ wrote:I'll wager a Grand Rapids guess.
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The current day Blue Bridge.railrod1949 wrote:The Blue bridge, which was the old GR&I RR bridge, across the Grand River, Grand Rapids.Jetlink wrote:Grand Rapids is my guess as well.~Z~ wrote:I'll wager a Grand Rapids guess.
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Where be it? (not michigan) Tunnel is the ROW.
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Tunnel 2 at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.~Z~ wrote:Where be it? (not michigan) Tunnel is the ROW.
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Agreed! Tunnel 2 at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. South east of Las Vegas, NV.PatAzo wrote:Tunnel 2 at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.~Z~ wrote:Where be it? (not michigan) Tunnel is the ROW.
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Also not Michigan. After retirement the 100 survived the torch and now resides at the Oklahoma Railway Museum.
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Good work.PatAzo wrote:Tunnel 2 at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.~Z~ wrote:Where be it? (not michigan) Tunnel is the ROW.
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That's the Santa Fe Railway's EL Capitan, train 17 at Raton, NM.PatAzo wrote:Also not Michigan. After retirement the 100 survived the torch and now resides at the Oklahoma Railway Museum.
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Yes, Raton NM in 1971.railrod1949 wrote:That's the Santa Fe Railway's EL Capitan, train 17 at Raton, NM.
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Just for the heck of it, since so many others were basically this spot: Newaygo.
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I saw that one last night and wondered how many postcards of that same spot had been made.~Z~ wrote:Just for the heck of it, since so many others were basically this spot: Newaygo.
So on to something fresher. It's the winter of 67/68 and the eve of the Penn Central merger. The scene looks very much like this today though the trees are taller, the rail is welded and the locomotives are newer.