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 Michigan Southern (PREX) GP16 #1616Pioneer Rail GP16 #1616 is currently working on the Michigan Southern RR out of White Pigeon. They have their 3 car train hooked together this day and are now crossing the Kalamazoo Street crossing on their way eastward toward Sturgis, 12 miles down the Old Road. March 7, 2011.GP30M4216
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 Michigan Southern GP16 #1616PREX #1616, now working for the Michigan Southern, carefully negotiates the NE wye track at Sturgis junction. They are shoving one loaded tankcar for Abbot Labs and pulling a single loaded 63' hi-cube boxcar which will be spotted at International Paper. These are the two busiest customers on the line. March 7, 2011.GP30M4216
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 Michigan Southern GP16 #1616PREX GP16 #1616 shoves back to spot a loaded 63' NS boxcar in the loading dock at International Paper in Sturgis. The tankcar immediately behind the locomotive was just picked up empty from Abbot Labs, to the north of International Paper. The empty four boxcars behind the engine were just pulled from the IP dock. The end car is still letter for Southern and says "Super Cushion Service" to the right of the door. March 7, 2011.GP30M4216
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 Michigan Southern GP16 #1616MSO GP16 #1616 heads west at White School Road with a train of seven cars to take to interchange at White Pigeon. Sturgis can be seen in the background. The Old Road was at one time the LS&MS' mainline from Elkhart to Toledo, before the Water Level Route was built below the state line. MSO operates about 13 miles of Old Road trackage. March 7, 2011.GP30M4216
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 Michigan Southern GP16 #1616PREX #1616 leads a swaying line of seven cars - 3 tanks and 4 boxes - down the Old Road westbound into the afternoon sun. This journey will take them 12 miles from Sturgis back to White Pigeon. At White Pigeon Junction, they'll be interchanged to the Grand Elk, where they will first go to Kalamazoo before taking the road freight to Elkhart and heading out for another load. White School Road, Sturgis, MI. March 7, 2011.GP30M4216
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 GLC GP35 #392A brief moment of sun catches the nose and a swirl of fresh snow as former Ann Arbor GP35's #392 and #391 lead a westbound road freight along highway M-36 in Lakeland. The train is 99 cars this day - all covered hoppers except a single loaded bulkhead flatcar with telephone poles. The rest of the train was likely empty - grain and sand hoppers going to mid-Michigan for another load. January 9, 2011.GP30M4216
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 GLC GP35 #392A pair of elephant style GP35s, turning 47 this year, show they've still got it as they drag a lengthy 99 car train westbound on the former Ann Arbor mainline at Lakeland, MI. Locomotives 392 and 391 wore several versions of the orange AA paint before giving way to TSBY yellow and blue, and now Great Lakes Central blue and white. They are shown paralleling highway M-36. January 9, 2011.GP30M4216
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 AA GP38 #7802 at HalletAnnie GP38 #7802 leads a train of interchange cars south, just south of the Michigan border, passing the venerable Hallet Tower in Toledo. Where Toledo was once a mecca for operating interlocking towers, even earlier in the decade, today this last tower remains open - as the Ann Arbor's dispatching office, in addition to the junction between the AA, CSXT, and old Toledo Terminal. The interchange cars are coming from a north CN freight, and are destined for Ottawa Yard. July 5, 2010.GP30M4216
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 AA GP38 #7802Orange Ann Arbor GP38 #7802 leads a transfer train into the crossover approaching Ottawa Yard in Toledo from Hallet Tower. July 5, 2010.GP30M4216
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 Delray Connecting SW9 #001DCRR makes a rare appearance on a cloudy afternoon, crossing Jefferson Avenue with a CSX Coke Express interchange job off Zug Island. The DCRR is an elusive operation, and crosses very few public road crossings. The SW9 is obviously of Canadian heritage. #001 is wearing the roads commemorative centennial paint scheme applied in 2004. 2005 photo.GP30M4216
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 Grand Elk GP38 #3806Grand Elk GP38 #3806, originally a C&O blue locomotive, brings train 501 south approaching White Pigeon and the US-12 crossing. Of their 8 car train today, the first two cars will soon be setoff at the Michigan Southern interchange. The remaining boxcars will go to industries in northern Indiana near Bristol. December 22, 2010.GP30M4216
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 Grand Elk train 501Grand Elk local job 501, the Kalamazoo south switcher, has a high green signal near milepost 18.5 near White Pigeon Junction. December 22, 2010.GP30M4216
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 HESR GP40-2LW #9712Central Michigan GP40-2LW #9712 leads train CM 740, the Bay City to Saginaw local turn job along Westervelt Road through Zilwaukee, MI. This 10 car local job brightens up the rain washed main street of town. It is interesting to note that this line runs right through some front yards in town, as seen by the house on the left. Number 9712 is a former Canadian National locomotive. The locomotive received HESR lettering in 2006. December 28, 2006.GP30M4216
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 Nicholson Terminal & Dock SW1Nicholson Terminal & Dock, in Ecorse, MI, is a sadly a mere shadow of its former self. At one time a dock and transfer terminal busy 24/7, today the pace is much slower and many of the buildings have been abandoned. Still, several freighters a week dock here, many of them international, unloading cargos for the greater Detroit area. The rails along the dock are used on the rare occasion when materials are brought in by boat that need to go out by train. Here, Nick's SW1 switcher - with no road number - prepared to take a cut of gondolas loaded with steel coils from the dock face out onto the Marsh Track. September 20, 2008.GP30M4216
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 DCON 44-tonner #9DCON's 1944 built GE 44 ton switcher, #9, hauls a cut of scrap gondolas and a single UP reefer northbound near the E. Grand Boulevard bridge toward Milwaukee Junction and Canadian National's BOC Yard for interchange. In 2007, the DCON received interchange rights at BOC and now makes this interchange once a day, usually in the mid afternoon. This was once the GTW's main line into Downtown Detroit and the Brush St. Station. December, 2007.GP30M4216
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