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railrod1949 wrote:In southeast Michigan on the CN, CSX or NS?

You did notice the palm trees?

Train canceled today due to clouds

It seems that the people involved actually might make this project a go.
They get a lot of sun down there. Pushing the technology to deliver something like this is a good demonstration.

I want to say thank you for this thread. It is very interesting to follow a project of this size to completion. I would make guesses as to the order of events that NS would follow and then could see if I was right or wrong based on the pictures and discussion here. But if I may, does anyone have pic...

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The Capital of South Australia is Adelaide. Adelaide being the name of the street on top of that pretty concrete. What are the odds the concrete still looks like that? It depends... without me getting out a map, is this along the DCON or the greenway? It's along the greenway, about a 1/2 mile south...

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The Capital of South Australia is Adelaide. Adelaide being the name of the street on top of that pretty concrete. What are the odds the concrete still looks like that?

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That nice cement wall in the background has some relationship to the Capital of South Australia.

I am from Michigan, so I'm not exactly up this location. Looking at the Google maps image it does appear the connection in question is complete. In the discussion it seems people were questioning the direction of travel for trains using this connection. To me it seems pretty simple, based on the di...

Michael wrote:Thanks for that info DaveO. Where exactly is the DSR building on Hamilton?

It's on the northeast corner of Hamilton and Manchester.
Google 3D aerial view is of it pre-fire. The 2D view is post fire.

Those tracks look too narrow for standard gauge I agree it looks narrow. But it's distortion. I went to google maps and used the measure tool. While I didn't get the measurement of 4.70833333333333333333333333... It was close enough to for me to deem the track was standard gauge, which is what the ...

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3rd Ave, just north of Manchester Parkway.... Any idea what was here originally?? Those apts. look fairly new and sorta out of place as it looks like a pretty gritty industrial area off the Detroit Terminal RR I thought it was interesting too. I guess you can't blame it on Detroit as this is actual...