Search found 426 matches
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:42 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3914
Re: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
Thanks, the 1897 and 1876 maps from the Library of Congress are clear enough to get some detail out of. And the 1911 map from the Canada South website you linked to is the best: https://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/map-1911-d&bc.pdf As for the dates, I was able to find Michigan Railroads sayin...
- Tue Jun 04, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: ADBF/JAIL Changes Made Under New Ownership
- Replies: 330
- Views: 1436368
Re: ADBF/JAIL Changes Made Under New Ownership
Where's this along the line?Dan Cluley wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2024 7:32 am823 made it's first trip last night.
IMG_20240604_071114833_HDR~2.jpg
- Sun May 26, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3914
Re: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
Does anyone have any old maps, charts and/or timetables of just this railroad/branch line? Everything I've been able to find on the MSC error is usually zoomed out quite a bit so local detail gets washed out.
- Sun May 26, 2024 2:28 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Shunt enhancement - success?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4874
Re: Shunt enhancement - success?
I realize this is going back to railroading 101, but for the less technically inclined such as myself, I was able to find some diagrams to show this. I believe the train is traveling "down" on these diagrams: https://ggwash.org/images/posts/201003-012348.jpg And this is the situation with the WTAMA:...
- Tue May 21, 2024 2:34 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Shunt enhancement - success?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4874
Re: Shunt enhancement - success?
Excuse me, but what is "shunt enhancement"?
- Sun May 19, 2024 5:50 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Gradient Chart/Track Profile for CSX Plymouth Sub
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4841
Re: Gradient Chart/Track Profile for CSX Plymouth Sub
Where is Lake Odessa on this (Plymouth Sub) chart?
- Sun May 12, 2024 4:05 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Gradient Chart/Track Profile for CSX Plymouth Sub
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4841
Re: Gradient Chart/Track Profile for CSX Plymouth Sub
Kind of wish it showed elevations along the points.
So just east of Ann Pere is the highest elevation?
So just east of Ann Pere is the highest elevation?
- Sat May 11, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3914
Re: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
Unfortunately, they do not.
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:28 am
- Forum: Historical Q & A
- Topic: Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3914
Michigan Central Railroad Bay City Branch question
Does anyone have a timeline of when the Michigan Central Railroad's Bay City Branch was constructed? I see that it took in the Detroit and Bay City Railroad, which was apparently chartered in 1881, but I think part of this existed previous to then? I'm particularly interested in how the part of the ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New siding-business in Traverse City???
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11150
Re: New siding-business in Traverse City???
All this siding will be for is a transload that is taking some of the business away from Amerhart in Williamsburg. Apparently some former Amerhart guys are trying to stick it to them and get their product unloaded here instead of buying it from the competition. And this is precisely what I was talk...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New siding-business in Traverse City???
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11150
Re: New siding-business in Traverse City???
Okay, TC Man. But what you are failing to understand is that this board is full of people who would curl up and die if they could not give you a negative take on every single piece of news posted, here. ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New siding-business in Traverse City???
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11150
Re: New siding-business in Traverse City???
In bound empty containers (double stack) and down the road plywood and building materials for Box & tops. you can see how stupid MDOT engineers are, GLC ask for a run-a-round so they dont have to ball face cars back to Boardman Yard and you can plainly see its going to be a stub track. Now they hav...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New siding-business in Traverse City???
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11150
Re: New siding-business in Traverse City???
It sure looks like one, and Britten is a large company that sprawls 1/4 to 1/2 mile down to Beacon. The new building just completed (as in built, not finished inside yet). They have stacks of new shipping containers on the property (you can see some of them in the background in KC's photos). Not su...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: New siding-business in Traverse City???
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11150
Re: New siding-business in Traverse City???
A quick google of "2294 CASS LLC" shows the agent of the shell company to be a Paul Britten.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Highway construction at Trowbridge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2686
Re: Highway construction at Trowbridge
Thanks for the pics. I am not sure where the EB signal is, but, yes, I imagine it's work for the US-127 reconstruction. At Trowbridge, they are moving the ramp back, considerably, to offer a smoother turn: Screenshot 2024-02-07 at 15-18-09 I-496_US-127 Public Meeting Presentation - I496-US127-Public...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Conrail Shared Assets Trackage
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8054
Re: Conrail Shared Assets Trackage
Livernois Yard is getting paved. From MDOT : LANSING, Mich. - Neighborhoods near the Detroit Livernois Intermodal Facility in southwest Detroit stand to benefit from a Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) 2024 Michigan Rail Enhancement Grant Program (M-REP) grant announced today. The $5 mill...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: The port of monroe-containers?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2916
Re: The port of monroe-containers?
Just miserable people.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:13 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: ADBF/JAIL Changes Made Under New Ownership
- Replies: 330
- Views: 1436368
Re: ADBF/JAIL Changes Made Under New Ownership
MDOT announced it's Michigan Rail Enhancement Program grants, yesterday, and included $3,895,208 (towards a $7,082,197 project) for ADBF for general upgrades including rail, tie, ballast replacement, track surfacing, and yard improvements. I'm curious about whether anyone knows of where this is goin...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:14 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Diamonds in Kalamazoo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1535
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:06 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Diamonds in Kalamazoo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1535
Re: Diamonds in Kalamazoo
Are you asking about the mainline diamond or the spurs/sidings diamond?