Where Is It?

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railrod1949 wrote:
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:05 am
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Glad you enjoyed the geography test Pat.
Where be it?
South of Mason on the JAIL RR?
Noppers. We are not on a shortline railroad, but a Class 1 railroad is pictured here.
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Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:15 am

Noppers. We are not on a shortline railroad, but a Class 1 railroad is pictured here.
West Michigan?
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Not west Michigan.. definitely east Michigan.
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Not west Michigan.. definitely east Michigan.
CN, CSX or NS railroads?

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CN railroad.
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Toepfer Road CN Cargo Flo Mt Clemens Sub Warren

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Toepfer Road CN Cargo Flo Mt Clemens Sub Warren
Ding, thou art correct.
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Where be it?
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Where be it?
Newago in west Michigan?

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Not on newaygo, no.
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Northwest of the Caledonia depot.

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That sounds correct. Photo is on the side of a building in town. Part of the depot that was torn down was remade into a 2D depot and is on the side of the building as well.
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That sounds correct. Photo is on the side of a building in town. Part of the depot that was torn down was remade into a 2D depot and is on the side of the building as well.
Caledonia, in Kent County, was served by the old New York Central, ex Michigan Central RR passenger train that ran between GR and Jackson until its final run April 30, 1959. It was Beeliner RDC.

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

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That sounds correct. Photo is on the side of a building in town. Part of the depot that was torn down was remade into a 2D depot and is on the side of the building as well.
Searching historic railroad photos from Calidonia turned up this with a caption for the photo.

https://www.villageofcaledonia.org/about/history/

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Where be it?
I've passed this trestle many times, but usually at night or when it was even more covered in foliage, and never noticed it till the other day. I had only been on the one off to the left in this photo.
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Where be it?
I've passed this trestle many times, but usually at night or when it was even more covered in foliage, and never noticed it till the other day. I had only been on the one off to the left in this photo.
Grand Rapids area?

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That's correct, it's somewhere in the GR area. I do bike at night around Grand Rapids often....but where is this trestle?
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Where be it?
I've passed this trestle many times, but usually at night or when it was even more covered in foliage, and never noticed it till the other day. I had only been on the one off to the left in this photo.
Is this just north of the former Lakeshore and Michigan Southern bridge over the Grand River at Wyoming?
I recall a spur went north off the LSMS to the former plaster mill. I believe the bridge in the background is on the Kent Trails pathway.

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That sure looks like the spot Standard. On the attached image, I was standing near the circled red area. Just behind me, the tracks seem like they'd have ran straight into the side of a very steep hill. There's some drainage pipes up the hill. Wondering if this spot had the land area raised after the plaster mill was removed? Unless the tracks skirted just to the east of the hill and continued further north towards Butterworth before becoming level with the land.

Also, I see another spur circled in green. Any idea if that was another mining site?
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