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Frankenmuth
Does anyone know if rail ever serviced the grain elevator in downtown Frankenmuth and when.
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Re: Frankenmuth
Yes, but removed long ago. Star of the West owns and operates quite a few elevators and mills in the thumb area and also in Quincy, MI, and IN and OH too. The place in Frankenmuth transloads inbound and outbound product from several places including Flint and Saginaw.
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Re: Frankenmuth
It did? When? The only rail line serving Frankenmuth I know of was the old Interurban, but that was gone back in the 30's? No rail service has ever directly served Star of the West. It has been indrectley serviced via a truck to rail transfer.AARR wrote:Yes, but removed long ago. Star of the West owns and operates quite a few elevators and mills in the thumb area and also in Quincy, MI, and IN and OH too. The place in Frankenmuth transloads inbound and outbound product from several places including Flint and Saginaw.
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Re: Frankenmuth
I have a map from 1925 that shows a line into Frankenmuth. That must be the line it was referring too.sd70accsxt700 wrote:The only rail line serving Frankenmuth I know of was the old Interurban, but that was gone back in the 30's?
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Re: Frankenmuth
For some reason, four years ago I had remember seeing a crossing gate by the silos on main street. Maybe it was a train mirage
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Re: Frankenmuth
I am sure it is, but I dont think it ever serviced Star of the West, could be wrong. Anyone have the Arcadia Publishing book on Frankenmuth? I know it talked about the interurban line a litte and had a photo of a locomotive and a gon in Frankenmuth? Say anything about who it serviced. If there was, it has been gone a long long long time.AARR wrote:I have a map from 1925 that shows a line into Frankenmuth. That must be the line it was referring too.sd70accsxt700 wrote:The only rail line serving Frankenmuth I know of was the old Interurban, but that was gone back in the 30's?
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Re: Frankenmuth
IIRC what you seen was a RR crossbuck (or something that looked like it at the School House Square (IIRC). I rember something like that, in the grass in front of the place. It was just in front of Star of the West. Also the brown colored building next to Star of the West, and the brewery, used to be a big LGB dealer, dont know if it still is.wagnew0923 wrote:For some reason, four years ago I had remember seeing a crossing gate by the silos on main street. Maybe it was a train mirage
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Re: Frankenmuth
I just did some work at Star of the west last Thursday and I was wondering the same thing. I couldn't see any evidence of a rail line, but I didn't look really hard. On my way home to Grand Rapids, I stopped at the hobby shop between 75 and Frankenmuth. Picked up a O scale 40' Container.
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Re: Frankenmuth
Junction Valley. The owner Bill, just passed away a few weeks ago.Proto48Patrick wrote:On my way home to Grand Rapids, I stopped at the hobby shop between 75 and Frankenmuth. Picked up a O scale 40' Container.
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Re: Frankenmuth
sd70accsxt700 wrote:Junction Valley. The owner Bill, just passed away a few weeks ago.Proto48Patrick wrote:On my way home to Grand Rapids, I stopped at the hobby shop between 75 and Frankenmuth. Picked up a O scale 40' Container.
No kidding. Thats too bad.
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Re: Frankenmuth
1920 Plat map shows the PM line to the north of Frankenmuth running through Gera, and the Michigan Electric Railway entering Frankenmuth from the west.
http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/M ... wp1920.htm
Sorry to hear the sad news about the JVRR.
http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/M ... wp1920.htm
Sorry to hear the sad news about the JVRR.
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Re: Frankenmuth
The Michigan Electric Railway ran along side Junction Rd. Bill who owned JV, used to tell me about how when we was building the railroad IIRC he found the trestle piers along side Junction Road, where the "Valley" was. You can still follow most of the MER from Junction Rd/Dixie Hwy all the way to Mt. Morris.
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