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I know I might get laugh at for how stupid this idea is. But I plan to go to collage for business, and work for a railroad to get some experience, and I plan to own and operate my own railroad, this railroad would be called the Cadillac and Northern Railroad. This line will stran the old Annie line ...

So I heard a rumor that Mount Pleasant between Broadway and Pickard st that there was going to be a transloading facility, I don’t have any information on it, it’s just a rumor, and I want to get you guy’s opinion

So it’s been almost a decade since the state proposed a commuter line that would be revolution, a coast to coast line connecting Michigans Lower Peninsula biggest population, economic, and capital centers, but since then, there’s been little news, only one study, and only commuter line in Michigan t...

Appears our wiki doesn't yet have the train symbol info for GLC: https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Great_Lakes_Central If someone wants to add it there, please do. Found this list from LansingRailfan from 2021: CNTN - Cadillac North TurN - everything north of Cadillac including when they go to...

This is a very big what if question. This is not a rumor or a plan or anything like that. If the GLC and AA were to merger, how would this change the operations of the railroads? I can think of only 1 substantial change that would occur and that would be the CSX-GLC interchange at AnnPere would see...

Looks like a great Mystery Science Theater show 8) I think a high speed rail corridor or any type of passenger train service between Grand Rapids and Detroit would probably fare slightly better than NBC’s 1979 TV show super train. Note: The series was on for less than one season and was an abysmal ...

Its a shame we don't have any worthwhile mainstream news outlets anymore. I'd love to see a high profile news article looking into the amazing incompetence and dishonesty that keeps rolling this proverbial turd of an idea down the road. I think this is the closet one. https://www.michigancapitolcon...

Almost as amusing as the naive A2TC proponents is the ongoing anguish expressed on this board about it. Chill out people. Money for the preliminary and final studies is infinitesimally small compared to the billions spent on other transportation projects in Michigan. And if by some fluke we do end ...

https://youtu.be/PqGZSMd7kXI

Sounds like the Michigan Environment council did a interview with the people behind A2TC. They talked about some “interesting” stuff

Well right now the A2TC train is a big boondoggle BUT once we are forced into electric automobiles and IF they run the trains to actually serve all the people a train is a good idea. 1. Train has to run daily. Both directions. 2. Need a special car to haul snowmobiles/ATV's at a cheap rate. 3. Trai...

Owners and buissness workers In Cadillac are excited for A2TC I was excited for the Easter bunny to come when I was a child. Well who’s going to break the news to a city that spend hundreds of dollars on this and a city transit Authority that got 1.3 from the United States Department of Transportat...

For those without a Cadillac news subscription, here's the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220831084716/https://www.cadillacnews.com/news/excitement-building-for-proposed-passenger-rail-line-through-cadillac/article_1f629c8e-24ae-11ed-b861-6f3e2f54ab87.html Merging this new thread with one o...

I know this was over a month ago but I still want to share. According to Cadillac News. Owners and buissness workers In Cadillac are excited for A2TC https://www.cadillacnews.com/news/excitement-building-for-proposed-passenger-rail-line-through-cadillac/article_1f629c8e-24ae-11ed-b861-6f3e2f54ab87.h...

You think the Republicans running Indiana are going to agree to this? Even if someone else fully paid for it? You clearly don't understand politics and at your age it's better to just keep your cheap shot politics out of your posts. Who said I was being political. I was just sharing something. :rol...

You think the Republicans running Indiana are going to agree to this? Even if someone else fully paid for it? You clearly don't understand politics and at your age it's better to just keep your cheap shot politics out of your posts. Who said I was being political. I was just sharing something. :roll:

This looks to be about a 10 year old article. The route to Detroit makes little sense and acquiring the land to do any of this will doom the project from the start, not to mention you are missing huge existing Amtrak markets. Fort Wayne does not presently have service, but . Their map seems to show...

So I saw an article that the High Speed Rail Aliance and a few government agencies like MDOT are thinking on making a HSR line from Chicago to Toronto. Which in Michigan will go between Toledo and Detroit. Here is the article. https://www.hsrail.org/220-mph-high-speed-rail-midwest

http://www.marp.org/?page_id=29 this is a map from the Michigan Association of Railroad Passenger. Of the states vision of Passenger Rail. It also include the Coast to Coast line, A2TC, and extension to Petoskey, Detroit to Bay city, Detroit to Port Huron, GR to Kalamazoo, and Detroit to Toledo.

Hey, next year they are doing public meeting along the line for people so they can get excited. So I see a lot of rail fans going to these to crap on these people.

Honestly with the money they spent on this. They can get a train from GR to TC and rebuild tracks on the White pine trail.

I can't seem to post a new subject, only replies- so someone can feel free to copy and paste this into a new thread please: In Traverse City on the Williamsburg branch, their was a rumor a couple years ago about turning the old Traverse City Gray Iron spur (near the airport, last use for MOW equipme...