Your Favorite Michigan Shortline Is...

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What Is Your Favorite Michigan Shortline?

LSRC/SBS
7
13%
HESR
5
9%
Marquette Rail
13
24%
MMRR/GRE
4
7%
LS&I
5
9%
Indiana Northeastern
4
7%
Michigan Southern
1
2%
Indiana and Ohio
1
2%
Any other Michigan Shortline
15
27%
 
Total votes: 55
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LSRC
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Your Favorite Michigan Shortline Is...

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Just out of curiosity, I've wondered what everyone's favorite Michigan shortline is. I've included some of the major ones.

This is just out of liking. This is which shortline you like more, NOT which has the best derailment record, or the best track, etc.
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SousaKerry
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"Charlotte Southern" still trying to figure out how it takes 2-3 hours to go 3 miles on their dinner train. Even I could walk faster than that
What smells like lube oil and diesel.... Oh wait it's just my "Locomotive Breath"
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SD80MAC
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Darn it, I voted for MMRR/GRE, but Marquette Rail is just as awesome.
"Remember, 4 mph is a couple, 5's a collision!"
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trainjunkie47
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Unread post by trainjunkie47 »

I cannot help being a GLC/TSBY fan. My father lives just north of Howell at Milepost 81 and my grandmother lives just west of Cadillac at Milepost 231. I miss the days of the mid '70's when AA ran six to eight trains a day through Cadillac, along with the Michigan Northern trains on the other line that is no longer there.
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Mike H
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WHAT???? Come on John......I thought you would vote for MQT for sure!!! I am very disappointed, maybe we will have to re-evaluate that train ride we talked about.
Mike H
P.S. Just kidding!!!
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SD80MAC
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Mike H wrote:WHAT???? Come on John......I thought you would vote for MQT for sure!!! I am very disappointed, maybe we will have to re-evaluate that train ride we talked about.
Mike H
P.S. Just kidding!!!
Argh, it's hard Mike! :P If Marquette painted up their engines nice like the GR 3839 and the MMRR 24 & 3836 I might be more biased. I know the engines will be painted eventually, but how soon is eventually!? On a foggy morning 3002 and 3003 would disapear! I grew up with GRE and MMRR, too, so maybe that's why.......
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JustinB
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Ann Arbor by far
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i995impalass
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Unread post by i995impalass »

I wonder what line I voted for............
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tsinoms
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Coopersville and Marne.
This is my life. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

If this is a problem get used to it.
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AARR
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GLC, former TSBY
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...
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Unread post by RailCanon »

TSBY, or GLC as some call it now.
It's still TSBY to me until the last yellow diesel is repainted
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GrandTrunkFan
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Unread post by GrandTrunkFan »

Ann Arbor man!
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BerkshireKid
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Unread post by BerkshireKid »

TSBY! TSBY! TSLC! GLC! GLC!
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Some people look at the glass as half empty.
Some people look at the glass as half full.
I just wonder WHO THE HELL HAS BEEN DRINKIN' MY BEER?!?!?!?!
:lol:
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TrainNut85
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Unread post by TrainNut85 »

[quote="trainjunkie47"] I miss the days of the mid '70's when AA ran six to eight trains a day through Cadillac[/quote]

Now that would be cool to see every day in Clare, but the TSBY is a twice a day train railroad, usually at nite. I'm a bit of a TSBY fan, but I also like the Lake States/SBS, Huron and Eastern, and the Marquette Rail.
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leo28150
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Unread post by leo28150 »

Myself, I voted for the IN as I worked there for 7 years.

Wonder what rr's the other shortlines category includes?
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trainjunkie47
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Unread post by trainjunkie47 »

I have a goal this summer to fan all the lower peninsula shortlines at some time. So far I have got the TSBY/GLC, HESR, Ann Arbor, and Detroit Connecting out of the way. Does the old PH&D count? I know CSX runs it, but it is a shortline as far as I am concerned.
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Gotta go with MMR/GRE because I really dig their paint jobs. Best in the state, especially when photographed together. :)

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PAT.C
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MARQUETTE RAIL ROCKS AND THE MARQUETTE GUYS ARE GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE FIRST ST. BAR ON WEDNESDAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - I LUV DOLLAR LONGNECKS-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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GreatLakesRailfan
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Unread post by GreatLakesRailfan »

HESR...nothing against the MQT or any other line...but the HESR is partly responsible for my interest in trains...and I've got a number of N scale locos painted in a scheme that closely resembles the HESR's old scheme...
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