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I have a couple copies of (PH&D) waybills from carloads of LPG that were shipped from St. Clair to Petoskey. The routing shows C&O to Reed City to MIGN. The consignee was Pyrofax Gas Corp. Unfortunately they don't show who the actual recipient of the car was. Both are from May 1977, but I'm pretty s...

I dug around in old issues of the Federal Register available through the Library of Congress online. The trackage rights became effective on March 20, 1989 between MP 272.5 and MP 332.3. No other details provided, and the transaction was exempt from ICC approval under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). 49 CFR § ...

I would assume that CSX and CN possess copies. I wouldn’t know where to look online to see if there’s a copy. Oh. When you stated that the trackage rights were non-transferable, I wondered if you had an online source that stated they're non-transferable. I had heard the same elsewhere and have been...

CN’s trackage rights contract with CSX running over the Flint Sub to access the PH&D is non-transferable if CSX was to sell the line. Additionally, LSRC would not gain rights to run over the CN yard to go from their paper mill spur to the Marysville branch. They would have to have power on each lin...

Deshler in June? If everything works out ok, we'll be there, at least on Saturday. I've been looking forward to bringing my wife to one of the meets, so she can meet some of the characters in the railfan stories I've told her about the good old days of the RailroadFan.com meets (i.e. before COVID). ...

Hello all, I am interested in having a couple GP9’s custom painted and lettered. Can any shell (factory painted and lettered) be custom painted and lettered or do I need to get some un-decorated shells to have the custom work done to them? Also, does anyone have any links to some good places to hav...

There's currently an EB, possibly with a fresh crew, in PH. When we pulled into the parking lot at 16th Street, nothing was lined up WB from Canada. Would the EB be the E274 that was at Cory earlier? (asking because my scanner and camera are both at home). I've obviously missed something- LRF, how d...

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Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:41 am

I want to revive this thread:


2. How many engine blocks does a genset have?

What kind of genset? Early on some had 2 and some had 3. My understanding is that the generator sets weren't durable enough for railroad needs.

Edit: apparently the GV show is May 7th. So two of the shows aren't until May.

If you're on Facebook, there's a group dedicated to posting information about train shows in the metro Detroit area that could be worth keeping an eye on.

Gratiot Valley is supposed to have one at a soccer complex in Shelby Township this spring, there's one at the old Packard Proving Grounds (also in Shelby Township) at the end of February, and there's one in Port Huron (at the mall, NOT the convention center) April 30-May 1. Edit: poster for the Port...

It's kind of a toss-up for me. I'm primarily in N scale, although we have some HO guys in our modeler's group and several of us dabble a little in HO scale. On one hand, I have a certain attachment to the Port Huron & Detroit Railroad. It was local and I prefer the character of the shortlines over t...

I know this is better suited to the history board, oh well. I looked up some stuff in old Free Press articles online. It wasn't the New York Central that drove the GT to build the eastern part of the belt line, but the Pere Marquette. There was a ton of information, the following only touches on th...

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And why would it make my day

For those who haven't heard, the Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Historical Society is shutting down. The organization's final public event is tomorrow (Sunday December 12, 2021) from 11 am to 3 pm. Event might not be the right word- this is a liquidation sale and all of the administrative items (furn...

Good luck chasing the trip. A couple friends and I tried that a couple years ago, with our first shot at the intersection of Smith and Wilkinson roads, and our second shot on the state highway just outside of Ashley- the train moves too fast and there's too much traffic to move fast enough on the ba...

That's the right name. It was built by 3 members of the Blue Water International Ntrak club in the mid-90's as an alternate to Ntrak after a dominating club member had sucked the joy out of Ntrak (according to one of the original 3). The layout was named after the streets the original 3 lived on at ...

X382 just marked up to go east from Sarnia. The dispatcher mentioned that there's a 397 somewhere east of Sarnia that's either in their way, or that they'll meet along the way. CN 3880 is leading another westbound that's waiting to go west from Port Huron. I don't have a symbol for 3880's train- it ...

There was a thread on this a couple months ago, http://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=37697 . There has been discussion about the symbol changes here recently- I think. I thought the 500 series locals were mostly annulled, at least on the east end of the Flint Sub. M301 is a relatively ne...

I have a very vague recollection of seeing a picture of a solid blue rack (possibly a single or bilevel car with enclosed sides and an open roof?) at or containing a load shipped from the Ford plant in Romeo. I was hoping someone else might know if there was anything special about these particular ...

Figured someone would jump in. Based on a google image search for GTW autorack... There were several series that were all blue on the sides. Thanks. I found 2 pictures of the car decoration that I'm looking for. And a bunch of pictures of HO scale models. There was also a variation of Blue panels, ...