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When and why was the old line around the south side of the lake pulled up decades ago?

Another railroad themed ice cream place is the Ice Cream Caboose in Alto. Right near the CSX tracks:
https://www.facebook.com/IceCreamCaboose/

Are there very many trains running over 7500 feet in Michigan?

I'd ask Warren Buffett if he'd adopt you. He said he bought BNSF because his parents never bought him a train set when he was a kid.

Union Pacific bowed to share holder pressure and ousts it's president because UP trails the other class one's in most performance categories. Everybody works for somebody. Alan Shaw laid out the hidden costs of furloughs and told share holders NS would stop being driven by cost cutting and the oper...

GDLK southbound through Cutlerville at 1:53pm.

In my opinion, the FRA needs to shut NS' operations down until they can make new safety practices that the FRA can agree upon, and if the regulator doesn't like it, nothing moves on that railroad until the regulator is satisfied. Here's why: NS at this point is a threat to public safety with all of...

Probable is meds. If it was toys, I wouldn't be happy. I agree it was probably damaged but I also note the correct post office did get it first. But what did they do with it? In the old days the clerks knew the delivery scheme for every route in their building. Nowadays they just scan the bar code ...

Chip wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:45 pm

USPS is terrible for logistics. FedEx isn’t much better.

FedEx ships most of the USPS's packages.
A "looping" package like that often indicates some type of issue with the shipping label (i.e. wrong zip code or address format, damaged bar code etc.)

-29 year USPS employee-

Ah, gotcha AARR. Wasn't aware that area was called Arthur. Not Muskegon area... definitely within 40 miles of GR, in fact, a lot closer than 40. "Within" is definitely the key word. :) Looks to be just east of the corner of Nason & Voorheis NW in Grand Rapids. https://www.420property.com/420-conten...

MQT 2042 in Lowell (Malta) at 1:50pm running around covered hoppers south of the river.

GDLK 4124,4125,4017 SB at 68th in Cutlerville at 1:00pm. 14 cars.

~Z~ wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 15, 2023 2:00 pm

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 1:57pm. WAMX 4125, WAmx 4124, and 22 cars. Mostly tank cars with 1 covered hopper and a few box cars.

68th St in Cutlerville at 2:07pm.

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Tue Feb 14, 2023 1:35 pm

Plannerdad wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 14, 2023 1:31 pm

I can hear Grand Elk heading north around 92nd. No visual.

I have their visual for ya, you must be visiting family

Wamx 4125 and 4124 north through Byron Center at 1:35pm with 10 cars.

Past 68th St in Cutlerville at 1:40pm

AANscaleRunner wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:20 am

Hearing them leave Cadillac for Clare at 1120. Petoskey run yesterday.

My kid texted me a short video of them rolling through the CMU campus just before 3:00pm.

R Bedell wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:34 am

Hope that was sarcasm. Yeah, let's put the bureaucrats who run who run Amtrak, the Postal Service, the Secretary of State's office etc. in charge of the freight railroads

Or.......God forbid, the current DOT "Mr Vacation".

Hey, be nice, He's still nursing.

MrAnderson wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:21 pm

*cough* nationalize *cough cough*

Hope that was sarcasm. Yeah, let's put the bureaucrats who run who run Amtrak, the Postal Service, the Secretary of State's office etc. in charge of the freight railroads.

Anyone know where the "Coopersville Monorail" is?
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/loc ... cf36221260

NS vs. bridge beam in Tennessee:
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1 ... 6141537282

Looks like the white church in the background is still there.