Soo Junction located between Trout Lake and Newberry on CN. I believe there is some sort of little train that starts near there and runs north through the woods.Michael wrote:No. One more hint, you can get a ticket to ride in that building in the photoAARR wrote:Is it between Ishpeming and Baraga?Michael wrote:Is this in the U.P.? It is in the U.P. and that is CN's line.
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It's just a little bit west of downtown and is not too far east of the Ambassador Bridge as well.Pixl wrote:Ok , can you give another hint?Burb8145 wrote:Hint: This is near a former major passenger station.
I've tore up many of Detroit streets looking for this.
Or at least open up the shot to a larger view.
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Well the fact Michigan Central Station (Used 1913-1988 by Michigan Central and then Amtrak) is like one of the only really mentioned abandoned station throughout the internet and fits the location you described, I'm going to put that as my guess.Burb8145 wrote:It's just a little bit west of downtown and is not too far east of the Ambassador Bridge as well.Pixl wrote:Ok , can you give another hint?Burb8145 wrote:Hint: This is near a former major passenger station.
I've tore up many of Detroit streets looking for this.
Or at least open up the shot to a larger view.
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Soo Junction located between Trout Lake and Newberry on CN. I believe there is some sort of little train that starts near there and runs north through the woods.[/quote]Michael wrote:No. One more hint, you can get a ticket to ride in that building in the photoAARR wrote:Is it between Ishpeming and Baraga?Michael wrote:Is this in the U.P.? It is in the U.P. and that is CN's line.
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Oh oh, i know this one. Lake St in Whitehall. Line connected south to Muskegon's Berry Junction.MQT3001 wrote:(click for full-size image)
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That was fast! Thought somebody ought to know.~Z~ wrote:Oh oh, i know this one. Lake St in Whitehall. Line connected south to Muskegon's Berry Junction.MQT3001 wrote:(click for full-size image)
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If you were to follow the former path of these rails a bit towards the west and the north, you would end up at Michigan Central.Agrotred40 wrote:Well the fact Michigan Central Station (Used 1913-1988 by Michigan Central and then Amtrak) is like one of the only really mentioned abandoned station throughout the internet and fits the location you described, I'm going to put that as my guess.Burb8145 wrote:Hint: This is near a former major passenger station.
If you were to head a few blocks east, there was another former station that's been long demolished.
One last hint: these are embedded in a north-south street between Fort Street and West Jefferson.
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I was poking around the Detroit Metroplex last night on Google, but thought to myself, there's no way it would be here...and I was wrong. I take it those tracks are from some sort of mail transfer operation between the Post Office and Michigan Central's station? Google shows it as 598 10th Street, Detroit, but all those empty trailers sitting around are USPS equipment or USPS contractors' equipment.Burb8145 wrote:If you were to follow the former path of these rails a bit towards the west and the north, you would end up at Michigan Central.Agrotred40 wrote:Well the fact Michigan Central Station (Used 1913-1988 by Michigan Central and then Amtrak) is like one of the only really mentioned abandoned station throughout the internet and fits the location you described, I'm going to put that as my guess.Burb8145 wrote:Hint: This is near a former major passenger station.
If you were to head a few blocks east, there was another former station that's been long demolished.
One last hint: these are embedded in a north-south street between Fort Street and West Jefferson.
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Wow, you almost had to hand the answer to us! I did follow the tree path from Michigan Central down to this area twice, but stopped looking at the West end of the parking lot. How did you find this, have you been to this spot? Good one.Burb8145 wrote:Hint: This is near a former major passenger station.
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Inspired by Burb's "rails in the pavement", here is one I ran across. The route was last used in 1981 when rail traffic was down to less than 1 car per day. (I wonder how they moved a partial car)
Sounds like a lot of traffic compared to what we get in Traverse City, and amazingly we are still open for business.
Sounds like a lot of traffic compared to what we get in Traverse City, and amazingly we are still open for business.
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Somewhere in Detroit?Pixl wrote:Inspired by Burb's "rails in the pavement", here is one I ran across.
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Only about a 180 miles from there.
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Somewhere in Grand Rapids?Pixl wrote:Somewhere in Detroit? Only about a 180 miles from there.
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No, but you are in the right direction.AARR wrote: Somewhere in Grand Rapids?
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Could be Muskegon.. or Whitehall/Montague based on the 180 miles from detroit and in the same direction as GR is from Detroit. I think you'd need to narrow it down similar to how Burb's (within a few miles) as this image is just too vague.
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Well, I would not believe you if you tried real hard and though up a possible answer, but....GreatLakesRailfan wrote:I was poking around the Detroit Metroplex last night on Google, but thought to myself, there's no way it would be here...and I was wrong. I take it those tracks are from some sort of mail transfer operation between the Post Office and Michigan Central's station? Google shows it as 598 10th Street, Detroit, but all those empty trailers sitting around are USPS equipment or USPS contractors' equipment.Burb8145 wrote:Hint: This is near a former major passenger station.
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Well Burb didn't give us anything for some time. But how about this. The location is straight West of Burb's last spot. A nearby power plant tried to save a portion of the line and even paid thousands of $ for continued maintenance so they could bring in heavy equipment for a renovation.~Z~ wrote:Could be Muskegon.. or Whitehall/Montague based on the 180 miles from detroit and in the same direction as GR is from Detroit. I think you'd need to narrow it down similar to how Burb's (within a few miles) as this image is just too vague.
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Right, Burb showed a very unknown location and that's why the guesses sucked until we got a much better clue.Pixl wrote:Well Burb didn't give us anything for some time. But how about this. The location is straight West of Burb's last spot. A nearby power plant tried to save a portion of the line and even paid thousands of $ for continued maintenance so they could bring in heavy equipment for a renovation.
I'm looking around South Haven on the Hartford to South Haven line, not finding anything that matches up yet.
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I think you will find it soon. You're on the right line.~Z~ wrote:[quote="Pixl"I'm looking around South Haven on the Hartford to South Haven line, not finding anything that matches up yet.
The old factory you see in the photo shows as a black square in the aerial shot. Look for the asphalt road patches over the tracks instead.