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- Fri Jul 05, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Thumb Railroad Trip
- Replies: 1
- Views: 171
Thumb Railroad Trip
It's been a few years since I had an opportunity to do much driving around the Thumb looking for trains, but Jetlink's daily updates on his bicycle trip last week served as a reminder that I hadn't been up to Silverwood/Clifford/Vassar recently. We left the Port Huron area around 10:30, intentionall...
- Thu Jun 13, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New PM 1225 excursion train in a few weeks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2541
Re: New PM 1225 excursion train in a few weeks
Do you have a source for this or should I just take your word for it Freedom-flyer-Flyer-e1716240739753-600x300.png **SCHEDULE:** 10:30am Boarding Opens 11:00am Depart Owosso 12:15pm Arrive Ashley 12:45pm Baseball Game Starts 1:45pm Baseball Game Ends & Boarding Opens 2:15pm Depart Ashley 3:30pm Ar...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - March 2024
- Replies: 418
- Views: 30799
Re: CN Train Location Updates - March 2024
It might be in Sarnia by now, but M?332/396 had to stop west of Griswold Road (west of Tappan), with no (Customs) holds. Around 2:15 or so they were getting permission from the dispatcher to move up to 16th Street. Power was one GE locomotive and one EMD locomotive. Nothing spectacular or unusual. M...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 7:46 am
- Forum: Super Long Threads
- Topic: Your hot takes
- Replies: 40
- Views: 29217
Re: Your hot takes
Steam is overrated.
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:57 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - October 2023
- Replies: 396
- Views: 52468
Re: CN Train Location Updates - October 2023
A492 east clear mp225 at 11:41. CN duo #3305 + #3118 Through Port Huron and into the tunnel about 1645. The string of empty centerbeam flatcars directly behind the power was a surprise. There's another EB at the east end of the PH yard waiting for a signal to go east. If I had my scanner, I'd proba...
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:18 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortlines of Michigan Location Updates July 2023
- Replies: 132
- Views: 40977
Re: Shortlines of Michigan Location Updates July 2023
Saw LSRC 6201(?) on CN in Flint this morning between GM Truck & Bus and I-69, with 2 cabooses at the end of a fairly short train.
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Train goes into a pit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4708
Re: Train goes into a pit
Not the first time Jimmy (MrBeast) has killed a handsome looking geep, someone give him a SD70ACC to blow up and I’ll be happy. A working steam engine, under steam, would be a much more spectacular thing to blow up. Better yet- two hitting each other head on, like the spectacles they staged more th...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - July 2023
- Replies: 433
- Views: 68568
Re: CN Train Location Updates - July 2023
A491 should be just arriving on the Sarnia side of the tunnel now. It has a 3rd unit (CN 2987) cut in about 20 cars from the rear of the train.LansingRailFan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:00 pm13:47 - WB A491 with CN 2892/CN 2792 ex-CitiRail thru Trowbridge
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:53 am
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: Railroadfan.com 2023 Meet - Durand - June 4th
- Replies: 64
- Views: 31674
Re: Railroadfan.com 2023 Meet - Durand - June 4th
Noticed the group photo was posted on Facebook... It was a good time. It's always nice to people watch and listen to people discuss how much they know about everything. Looking forward to next year. 352154685_970283401055870_7322653569220705711_n.jpeg I got tied up and couldn't get there until afte...
- Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:27 pm
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: Railroadfan.com 2023 Meet - Durand - June 4th
- Replies: 64
- Views: 31674
Re: Railroadfan.com 2023 Meet - Durand - June 4th
I didn't realize June 4 was a Sunday until after I made a morning commitment, so I'll probably make it just in time for the afternoon lull. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again though.
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: A rant about the gen-z railfanning community
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19654
Re: A rant about the gen-z railfanning community
One thing you have to remember is most Railfans are on the spectrum. Are you on the spectrum, SD80MAC? Most (but not all) of the people I've met here have been normal, well adjusted individuals. Those who aren't either don't stick around very long (or get ban hammered) or mature to the point where ...
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 10:45 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: A rant about the gen-z railfanning community
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19654
Re: A rant about the gen-z railfanning community
One thing you have to remember is most Railfans are on the spectrum. Are you on the spectrum, SD80MAC? Most (but not all) of the people I've met here have been normal, well adjusted individuals. Those who aren't either don't stick around very long (or get ban hammered) or mature to the point where ...
- Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:46 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - April 2023
- Replies: 498
- Views: 79105
Re: CN Train Location Updates - April 2023
There's a 533 somewhere out west of Port Huron that's coming into Port Huron. There's a 301 waiting to go west from Port Huron, but they have to wait for the 533 before they'll get the light to go west. 396 must be somewhere west of Emmett (the town, not the street) if that 301 is leaving PH before ...
- Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:09 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - April 2023
- Replies: 498
- Views: 79105
Re: CN Train Location Updates - April 2023
Just had an eastbound (382?) go into the tunnel at Port Huron, led by CN 2952 and 3108.
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - March 2023
- Replies: 398
- Views: 67802
Re: CN Train Location Updates - March 2023
There's a southbound on the Mt. Clemens Sub moving quite slowly south of Mt. Clemens. No scanner, but it looked like the train was stopped or almost stopped around the area where the Mt Clemens Sub crosses Groesbeck Hwy between 19 Mile Road and Metropolitan Parkway (16 Mile Road)...
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: CSX St Clair Branch
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12366
Re: CSX St Clair Branch
From 2021 aerials there are tank cars at Marysville Ethanol. I think they resumed operations? That's part of the Marysville Underground facility. The ethanol plant is part of the same complex, but I think most of what they get/ship is via truck. Also, it's news to me that the ethanol plant is inact...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Dunn Paper in Port Huron Closing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6579
Re: Dunn Paper in Port Huron Closing
Perfect for train rides, but that probably will never happen!!!! :cry: If it was anywhere other than Port Huron, it might have a shot. But it's Port Huron - something like that will never happen. If the NIMBYs don't prevent it, the federal government will because it's too close to the (Blue Water) ...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:33 pm
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: Railfanning on the CP Elgin Sub
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7778
Re: Railfanning on the CP Elgin Sub
In the late 2000's I lived about 5 miles north of Elgin for a while. I remember the pair of trains now numbered 252/253, but that was it for freight that I was able to catch. I recall CN running even fewer trains over the ex-Chicago Central between Munger and Rockford in the same time period, althou...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:13 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Indiana Northeastern Customer List (Wiki)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9855
Re: Indiana Northeastern Customer List (Wiki)
They have a fairly active and responsive Facebook group. Check it out b I am not on FaceBook Imagine all the wonderful train photos you'd see if you were. :wink: We'd never see AARR on here again - he'd be too busy looking going through the various historical and current railroad groups looking at ...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:12 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Glass insulator virtual program
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4325
Re: Glass insulator virtual program
I remember buying one of those insulators. Those meets were a lot of fun.