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Just think. In a few years these are the idiots that will be trying to run the country. That's what happens when parents aren't allowed to beat the s**t out of the kids when they really need it. God help us..........

Here is a link (I hope) to a Google map of the area at Ensel I was talking about. You have to look really close to see the switches. The switch off the Belt Line Main to the CSX is more like maybe two hundred yards west of the Heart Truss switch. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Lansing,+MI&i...

Hate to tell you, but it the second pic, the diamond that you have which enables CSX to switch Heart Truss is no longer there. Just eliminate the diamond, and visualize two switches, the one coming out of Heart Truss west of where the diamond used to be, and then another one about 100 yards or so we...

If I ever got drunk enough (I quit drinking 17 years ago) maybe a hazardous placard on both sides of my backside. Poison Gas, Inhalation Hazard, ect.

R-Y-Y on CSX in this area is a Medium Approach.

It was a test run to help prepare us for the Huntington WV trip in 1991.

The "spur" off the CSXT line you're referring to at the east end of Ensel is not a CSXT line at all. It is the old South NYC and it used to run all the way through town as mentioned but did not go to Eaton Rapids. The old line that ran through Eaton Rapids branched of the Saginaw Branch at Rives Jct...

LOL! Tammy is always ready to tell everyone that she controls over 400 miles of track, as if she's the only person who does.

But woe to the train crew that doesn't answer right away when a dispatcher calls them! The shoe can fit both feet. I know the DS's get busy but even a simple "Stand By" would be better than nothing.

If the headlight are mounted up high and there are no glare shields, or the bottom version of a hood as if on a signal, the glare from the headlights off the top of the short hood can be very distracting at night, or sometimes making it downright difficult to see effectively. The only problem with h...

That's a big Roger! Exercising the lungs now as we speak. You might luck out though, I'm not sure if I'll be running the steamer this weekend. Might be playing Conductor, but you might have the guy who looks just like "Steamer" running the engine. Just not sure, we haven't finalized the crew schedul...

If the NS yard in Monroe you're referring to is the old CR yard, I think it's called "Warner Yard." And, actually there are two yards for the NS in Lansing. Saginaw Yard as Greg mentioned, and the old yard (or what's left of it) at the south end of town on Cavanaugh Rd we always called it "South Yar...

I don't talk to railfans, I YELL at them!

Just where do some of you people get your wild rumors?

Trips are all sold out.

Wish you people would get the facts right. This is not a "Santa Train". "Santa is not riding it. It is taking people to see Santa. It is called the "North Pole Express".

I know that if the NS ever did bring back the steam program there is one person (other than myself) who would be interested. I work as an Engineer for NS and our new Dearborn Division Road Foreman of Engines is none other than R.E. Saxtan, who used to head up the program, or was the NS System Road F...

Not sure which "Engineer" you may have talked to, (since I am one of them) but the work is not finished yet by a long shot, It will get finished but it definately is not finished now. Bill.

Locomotive Engineer for NS. First started out with Penn Central, then Conrail, now NS. One of the Engineer's on PM1225. Currently work out of Lansing.

Wrong. NS's Lansing Saginaw Yard is still in use.