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The Badger and Pere Marquette 41/Undaunted (and presumably the Spartan) are now owned by Interlake Steamship Co. Interlake has a very good reputation in the Great Lakes shipping industry and is family owned. I see this as a very good thing for the Badger! Detroit news published a piece about it. So...

I've checked the Surface Transportation Board to see if they have filed to be a railroad. No luck finding anything to indicate that has been done. Being a railroad under Federal law gives you lots of protection from local laws and lawsuits. That's what Matty Moroun tried to do with the Mc Clouth St...

The only rail I've physically seen lately is what is up running along the road. I'll have to ride my bike by there or try and get my buddy to fly his drone camera around there and see what it looks like now.

We, called it "Dirty Mike". :-) Took forever to get the engine cleared, ( Brakes & stuff ) ok'd to move. And then another forever to get it moved to Conrail's River Rouge yard. There is a YouTube vid of Dirty Mike moving on its own. I'm sure the tracks on site were in garbage condition before the d...

Wow I'm surprised it's still in that good shape and able to move under it's own power. The description on the picture says it's bound for Precision Locomotive Services in Staunton, Virginia. What do they do there, remanufacturing?

Now that most of the building demolition is done, what happened to whatever rail equipment that was left on the McLouth property? Shortly after the Morouns bought it there was an old switcher (had Big Mike painted on the hood) that they moved to the northwest end of the property right in front of th...

That pdf says that the King Rd. ramp in Woodaven has no current rail activity. That's not true anymore. They are loading Rangers from Michigan Assembly at the moment. The holding lot there is full of them and we send convoys there a few times a week.

AARR wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:04 pm

I'm surprised KCS has held out this long

MrAnderson wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:03 pm

There are more mergers that could happen in the US because there are more available class 1's that could merge.

Especially with their trackage in Mexico. I bet NS would love to get in on that since they serve so many auto plants in the Detroit area.

I consider myself an independent politically, but I lean slightly to the right of center. AA is so far to the left that it's on its side. Trying to present an opposing point of view to many in AA is more difficult than getting Trump to admit when he's wrong. 28.7 square miles surrounded by reality?...

Steve B wrote:Unless you actually live in Ann Arbor, there's no point in getting so upset. It's interesting how Durand is a quiet zone yet people on this board don't trash them about it.

It's because Durant isn't the single most pretentious city in the state of Michigan.

They have been working their way east doing this for a while now.... It would be nice if they did this in the AA area....too many idiots crossing/walking the r.o.w. like THEY own it Don't you know Ann Arbor thinks the laws don't apply to them (including the laws of common sense). Ann Arbor isn't a ...

Well it seems my request went through and the image was either removed by the website or the OP (less likely the OP takes it down). Either way link takes you to a this page doesn't exist message now. I didn't expect that to work, but I'm glad it did. Image still shows on Reddit so maybe it's just m...

The spurs seen in the 1967 map south of Vreeland Rd. are mostly gone now. There's I think only 3 left (hard to tell passing by from the road) and I'm pretty sure they just pulled some out. There's a pile of ties sitting over there that wasn't there a few weeks ago. They have been used very rarely fo...

DBFanatic wrote:"Man, I am so sick of this company crying broke all the time."

Is that more or less often than we hear the term "cash-strapped" used to describe Detroit?

in the last year since Jim Hackett took over? Way more, you just don't always see it in the media as much as you do internally.

Man, I am so sick of this company crying broke all the time. They have anywhere between $16B and $21B in the bank depending on what you read. They are still profitable despite their claims to the contrary. They aren't broke. Full disclosure, I am a ford employee. In fact I'm wrapping up my shift at...

It would be an easier pill to swallow if they would pay the police and firefighters better and properly fund their pensions.

Man, I am so sick of this company crying broke all the time. They have anywhere between $16B and $21B in the bank depending on what you read. They are still profitable despite their claims to the contrary. They aren't broke. Full disclosure, I am a ford employee. In fact I'm wrapping up my shift at ...

nickrink wrote:Does anyone know if its possible to catch a train after 3:00 PM on weekdays?

You can sometimes see them in the evening after 6pm. That’s normally when I see them assembling trains.

I hate those NS trains in the morning. I get to that crossing on Vreeland around 5am on nights I work (so Monday and Tuesday morning) and it nearly hits me as it’s comkng out of the yard because they move the locos with no lights on and that signal doesn’t activate until they are pretty much on the ...

Perfect time to do it while the Ford plant is shut down.