Lake State Railway

[mike nowakowski]

Does anybody know the traffic levles on Lake State Railway from Bay City to Roscommon and from Bay city to Alpena

[LSRC]

Pinconning to Alpena is the Huron Sub which sees two trains per day (one in each direction). These are trains 326 SB and 327 NB. The travel mostly at night.

From Bay City to Gaylord is the Mackinac Sub. It sees one train over other day or every few days. It runs on a random schedule. The train will come South on day A and back North on day B. They may repeat this again if necessary. Every once in a while they'll run up to Gaylord.

[mike nowakowski]

Is 326 SB a grain train or has alot of grain cars in its consist because i rember at my younger days (10yrs old) going to a ice creame store off of 23 and always rember seeing it at the crossing south of Greenbush after my family and i stopped at the old station in Greenbush and on that note does anyone have pictures of that station now and back then

[AARR]

326 does not handle any grain cars. If you saw the big covered hoppers they were for flyash which LSRC hauls up to Lafarge in Alpena. If you saw the small (2-bay) covered hoppers they are for cement which LSRC hauls from Lafarge to Bay City.

[mike nowakowski]

I ment 327 NB

[~Z~]

I ment 327 NB

Doesn't matter if it's 327 northbound, or 326 southbound.. if 326 southbound doesn't carry grain cars, then 327 going north doesn't either...unless LSRC is storing grain cars, which is highly doubtful. What goes up usually comes down, and vice versa.

[AARR]

I ment 327 NB

The big 3-bay covered hoppers carry flyash to Lafarge in Alpena. The small (2-bay) covered hoppers are for cement which is loaded by Lafarge in Alpena.