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The Baraga train leaves Euclid yard around 7:00a. They will be delayed if they have to wait for Mineral Range to clear. When all works right, CN is wb by Champion between 9:30a and 10:00a . They do most of their switching upon arrival in L'Anse and finish up after their rest,before heading east. Bac...

All the business is in L"Anse. Logs are loaded at two different locations, the powerplant gets scrap ties, and CertainTeed receives cars. The crew takes the power to Baraga to tie up across U.S.-41 from the hotel where they stay. They run out one day and back the next, all week long. Track speed is ...

The eastern counterpart of LU75 was SA74 originally and later TL74.
ML18 was the eastern counterpart of MP17. The "bomb train" also ran via Baldwin until it was later switched south from Saginaw.

Mon Feb 1 the train was in Gaylord in the late afternoon. 1169 and 805 spotted a centerbeam at Tri State,picked up two tankers at Northern Energy and five loads out of A & L. They left town around 4:45p.

Generally, LSRC arrives Gaylord around 10 or 11 a and is gone an hour or so later.

C&o had a propane dealer and Penn-Dixie Cement in Petoskey. Big Rock Point nuclear power plant provided an occasional car. D&M had the Pampers plant in Cheboygan and U.S Steel limestone plant in Rogers City. Also a dynamite plant for their south(in Hawks?). AA had the Yuma sand plant,with plenty of ...

The station was just a three sided metal shed, open to trackside,with a small parking lot on the other side. I presume the Idea was for passengers on the southeast side of town to not have to motor over to Wyoming yard. It was located on the east side of Kzoo Ave and on the south side of the track.

Also, all the miners, both MI and MN, are undergoing contract negotiations. U.S. Steel miners are working without a contract while Cliffs miners have a 30 day contract extension.

A typical ship, like the Michipicoten makes the Soo-Marquette trip in about 12 hours one-way. and about 5-6 hours to load.

An article about the summer maneuvers at Camp Grayling was published in the Gaylord Herald-Times a month or so ago.

Taconite pellets are very slippery. They look like ball bearings and act like them. On dirt they are not bad, but on ties or another hard surface like the ore dock they are very slippery. I was up there once with a motor car trip. No sign of any new engine shed at Euclid Yard. I think they return to...

Besides Essar Steel in the Soo, the other major customer for Marquette pellets is Rouge Steel in Detroit. An average of a boatload a day leaves Marquette for the Rouge.
Yes, there are different types of pellets.

There is one all-rail move per day of pellets from the mines to Essar Steel in Soo, Ontario, of 50 cars. The bulk of the pellets go from the Presque Isle ore dock in Marquette to the steel mill by lake freighter, usually the Michipicoten, making a round trip about every two days.

ELS at Wells has always been difficult to get in to. You can see plenty from public roads and parking lots on two sides of the property at Wells. Follpw sighns to the public boat ramp. Michigan hwy M-95 from north of Channing parallels much of the main line to Iron Mountain. U.S.-141 from just east ...

There was a lengthy article with photos about the towers in that neighborhood in the Grand Rapids Press several years ago, maybe when the Bridge St tower was still operating. Try researching it. If no luck, let me know and I will photo copy it for you and mail it to you when I get home in a couple o...

I'm glad I live up north out of range of the TV8 signal now. They have always made more out of a derailment than need be.

About once per week to Gaylord, once in a while twice, or not at all. Usually arriving around 11:00a and gone an hour or so later. If you are in Grayling, check Four Mile Rd.(Four Mile Rd. exitI,first exit south of Grayling.) Go east one mile where they keep the power and switch Weyerhauser and GP. ...

CN ships many carloads of used ties on every train to L'Anse for burning in the power plant there. They have done it for several years now, shipping them in gons and hoppers.

C&O served at least one customer on the L&N, a factory or maybe a foundry about a half mile north of U.S. 10. I rode with the crew one time to spot a car there. Also , the Pandrol Jackson plant is just south of U.S. 10 near where the L&N joins the C&O.

To clarify my previous post, any day means Monday thru Friday. Your best bet is to go to Grayling where they likely switch everyday. Check Four Mile Rd. where they tie up next to Weyerhouser. Just east off the Four Mile Rd.exit south of town.Also check in town at the industrial park. They often swit...