LSRC Siding removal

[Evan]

Well, as fate would have it the siding at Blackmar & townline road is being removed. not sure why.

[stfdbeeker]

I suspect that Mershon will be up next on the chopping block seeing as the power swich at Carrollton Rd has been removed since last year(maybe 2yrs) ago

[KenB]

And where are Blackmar and Townline roads at?

[pbmaxno15]

Saginaw County
http://goo.gl/maps/kVmd
admin edit: corrected map link to right location.

[lightning]

I suspect that Mershon will be up next on the chopping block seeing as the power swich at Carrollton Rd has been removed since last year(maybe 2yrs) ago

Yup Mershon is next...most of it's gone. Goin' North.

[Saturnalia]

IS this the Huron Sub?

[JDavis21835]

West of Mershon has been pulled. The rail is stacked, and tie plates are in piles, waiting to be picked up.

[sd70accsxt700]

IS this the Huron Sub?

Mershon is if they still call it that, the Dean Sub of the SBS. Blackmar is the Saginaw Sub. Mershon Siding started at Bay Rd. in Saginaw, and ran to Mershon interlocking. Blackmar Siding is aprox. MP 11 (about 5 miles or so south of Bridgeport) or so and ran from Townline Rd. to the end of Blackmar Rd. I grew up at MP 8 on Blackmar just short of Riverview.

[GTW6401]

Ive seen a few meets at Blackmar during the LSRC era, but most of the other sidings I can think of are currently full of stored coal hoppers, particularly in Saginaw. So I guess they will have trains wait in Flint or Saginaw to meet each other.

[penn central]

I can remember all these sidings being used i remember Blackmar being stored end to end with auto-racks back in the early 1980's 1981 to be exact. Mershon siding being used by the west side Saginaw belt train there was several times when being at Mershon tower in the late 1970's it would have a Chessie SW900 in run 8 with a huge cut of cars. They can still use Birch Run siding if they want to.

[SW]

Is the short branch to the abandoned US Gypsum plant at Alabaster still being used to store empty coal hoppers?

[lightning]

Is the short branch to the abandoned US Gypsum plant at Alabaster still being used to store empty coal hoppers?

The cars that was in Alabasterd were moved a year or so ago....They were csxt "HBO" cars (heavy bad ordered)