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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Vicksburg Union Depot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 982
Re: Vicksburg Union Depot
They have done an excellent job of restoring and restoring the depot and related area. it's well worth a visit and you might see a CN train or two during your visit. The rails are double tracked between Schoolcraft and Battle Creek.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: GDLK Operations
- Replies: 1681
- Views: 861651
Re: GDLK Operations
RBEX is also the reporting marks for the stone cars used to transport the stone. That would indicate that the "new" engine is also owned by the same company, RBEX, Balkema Excavating.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Kinross
- Replies: 6
- Views: 763
Re: Kinross
My mistake. Yes, I meant Kincheloe, south of Sault Ste Marie.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Kinross
- Replies: 6
- Views: 763
Kinross
What is the status of rail traffic at the old K I Sawyer Air Force Base near Kinross. When the AFB closed twenty or so years ago there was quite an effort to turn it into an industrial area. I know more tracks were laid and new businesses proposed but what has become of that effort? I don't hear muc...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: National / Other States Talk
- Topic: "no one steering"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1603
"no one steering"
My local TV station (WWMT) just reported about a run-away train in India that traveled 45 miles "with no one steering." Those trains in India must really be something!
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: You never know
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1833
You never know
My nephew likes to park by tracks (he's retired) and wait fir something to come along. Last Tuesday he was in Vicksburg. On an eastbound CN freight directly behind the power was a former Minnesota Commercial ALCO C636 dead in tow heading for Quebec. It's not often you see ALCOs these days. Then on...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Future of the Plymouth Sub/Grand Rapids Sub
- Replies: 156
- Views: 2061874
Re: Future of the Plymouth Sub/Grand Rapids Sub
I wonder if the CP ever wishes they still had the lines from Minneapolis though Sault Ste Marie to Sudbury to Toronto. I would think that it would be shorter and certainly less congested than through Chicago and Windsor.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:24 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: C&NW 175
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4873
Re: C&NW 175
I saw the 175 every day in the summer of 1969 when I was the fireman on the Keweenaw Central #29 (ex-Copper Range 2-8-0). It was just sitting there apparently with no hope for the future.Years later I was back in the Copper Country and drove past it every day on my way to work for ten years. I sure ...
- Sun Jul 30, 2023 4:22 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: C&NW 175
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4873
C&NW 175
What is the status of C&NW 175 (4-6-0) at the Steam Railroad Institute in Owosso? I know it was moved there a couple of years ago to be restored. How is the work progressing along? I haven't heard anything for quite a while.
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Marshall
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2092
Marshall
With all the hype and hoopla about the coming Ford battery plant to be built in Marshall, has anyone heard anything specific about any rail service? A large amount of money has been designated for "infrastructure" but does that include any trackage? With the size plant they are talking about would a...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:15 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Sault pulpwood
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2250
Sault pulpwood
On another board someone asks about pulpwood coming across the border at the Sault from the new Agawa Canyon RR (Previously Algoma Central). Does anyone know for sure where it is going, what mill, what town?
- Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:12 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: PawPaw River Transload
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3412
PawPaw River Transload
Today was my first time seeing the PawPaw River Transload facilities east of Hartford. There were so many covered hoppers and tank cars in abundance I was really surprised and impressed. What all is happening there? Further east there were more covered hoppers and tank cars just sitting but there se...
- Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:04 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: reporting marks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4349
reporting marks
When did reporting marks get shortened to no more than four letters? When did MSP&SSM become SOO or NYC&SL become NKP, etc?
- Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:23 pm
- Forum: Photography Workshop
- Topic: slide scanner recommendations?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7376
slide scanner recommendations?
I have 35 mm slides that I want to convert to save on a flash drive. So I need a slide scanner. Any recommendations or advice as to brands or models that are "best? Any that should be avoided? Any other thoughts or advice would be appreciated also.
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:27 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: BO (Botsford) Tower Demolition
- Replies: 67
- Views: 46275
Re: BO (Botsford) Tower Demolition
Once when a northbound NS was approaching KAL and Amtrak was already at the depot the tower operator told the NS to "ease it on down" knowing that Amtrak would be gone by the time the freight got to downtown. After the Amtrak had left, the tower instructed "ease it on down a little more." I'm still ...
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:05 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: CN Yooper Operations
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22473
Re: CN Yooper Operations
Any current word on the Watco take-over of the Trout Lake to Munising line?
- Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:24 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: The abandoned boxcars of L'Anse Bay
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5696
Re: The abandoned boxcars of L'Anse Bay
There used to be two Copper Range boxcars in Painesdale but that was over twenty years ago. I winder if they are still there.
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:01 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: CN Newberry Subdivision Customers
- Replies: 26
- Views: 35345
Re: CN Newberry Subdivision Customers
I live in Portage (Kalamazoo) on the Grand Elk route between Elkhart and Grand Rapids. I'll offer this as a word of encouragement. I don't know what new business can be found in the U.P. these days but Watco is good at finding new business down here. I suspect they'll try just as hard on the new lin...
- Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:55 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Reefer customers in W. Mich.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6560
Re: Reefer customers in W. Mich.
Fresh Solutions in White Pigeon used to get ARMN reefers with potatoes but I haven't seen any action there in the last couple of years.
- Sun Mar 21, 2021 1:03 pm
- Forum: National / Other States Talk
- Topic: New Ore in Northern Ontario
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12800
Re: New Ore in Northern Ontario
Hey ... There's not a single mosquito in the Upper Peninsula. - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - They're all married and have large families.
But don't kill one - - - - - - - - - - 500 come to the funeral !!!!!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - They're all married and have large families.
But don't kill one - - - - - - - - - - 500 come to the funeral !!!!!