Where Is It?

EWRice · Unread post by **EWRice** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 10:39 pm

That would most likely be the Chris - Craft factory. I did not know they had their own railroad.

Unread post by **AARR** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 6:10 am

Dave Cenci, SW, GLRF and a few others of us walked the abandoned ROW a year or two ago. In Marine City, where the old interchange was, there are still remnants of the railroads even though the steam operation disappeared in the 40's or 50's and the line was pulled up in the 80's.

~Z~ wrote:
Pixl wrote:This company in a East Michigan city was so busy in 1929 they needed rail service. They asked the nearest railroad to extend their line another 8 miles to serve their factory, but was refused. So they built their own 8 mile railroad with its own name interchanging with the nearby railroad. Here is the company at what be the peak years in 1931.

Today they have moved to another city still in business, all that remains is the water tank.

Can you identify the business and/or the line?
Surely... as a kid, I camped in the state park about a mile north of there. Algonac MI.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 9:33 am

Interesting place Pixl
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Algonac_Transit_Authority

James Sofonia · Sun Mar 27, 2016 10:04 am

Michael wrote:Interesting place Pixl
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Algonac_Transit_Authority

You guys are all correct. According to Michael's article one of the Chris-Craft locos is in or around the Cadillac area. Has anybody see it or took a photo?

James Sofonia · Sun Mar 27, 2016 3:09 pm

AARR wrote:Dave Cenci, SW, GLRF and a few others of us walked the abandoned ROW a year or two ago. In Marine City, where the old interchange was, there are still remnants of the railroads

~Z~ wrote:Surely... as a kid, I camped in the state park about a mile north of there. Algonac MI.

Ok you guys got me interested in going there so I booked a campsite for a week in July at the State Park.

GreatLakesRailfan · Sun Mar 27, 2016 3:42 pm

Pixl wrote:This company in a East Michigan city was so busy in 1929 they needed rail service. They asked the nearest railroad to extend their line another 8 miles to serve their factory, but was refused. So they built their own 8 mile railroad with its own name interchanging with the nearby railroad.

That's the first time I've heard anything about Chris Craft requesting a spur be built or refused. Chris Craft purchased the old interurban line north of Algonac after the (DUR?) discontinued operation. Prior to that, apparently they had been serviced by the DUR in Algonac. Their segment of the DUR is still visible along much of its path, including on the west edge of M29 north of the Algonac State Park. Because the Chris Craft line was company owned, it wasn't a common carrier and only served the Chris Caft plant. When the Algonac operation was shut down (Chris Craft relocated the Algonac operation and possibly others to Florida) the railroad was abandoned south of the wye in Marine City, or so I've heard.

GreatLakesRailfan · Sun Mar 27, 2016 3:46 pm

Pixl wrote:
Michael wrote:Interesting place Pixl
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Algonac_Transit_Authority
You guys are all correct. According to Michael's article one of the Chris-Craft locos is in or around the Cadillac area. Has anybody see it or took a photo?

Chris Craft had at least one other plant in Michigan (Holland area?). The locomotive might be from there instead.

Pixl wrote:
AARR wrote:Dave Cenci, SW, GLRF and a few others of us walked the abandoned ROW a year or two ago. In Marine City, where the old interchange was, there are still remnants of the railroads

~Z~ wrote:Surely... as a kid, I camped in the state park about a mile north of there. Algonac MI.
Ok you guys got me interested in going there so I booked a campsite for a week in July at the State Park.

The PH&D Railroad Historical Society has property at the north end of the line the Chris Craft line connected to, and might be worth a short visit...

www.phdrailroad.com

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:56 am

http://www.voicenews.com/articles/2013/ ... 397304.txt
Historic Algonac Interurban Railroad shows up during improvements on Michigan Street

That is an odd sounding title for an article. Sounds like a ghost train showed up. And the video no longer works. At least it did not for me.

I also found this on YouTube regarding the ATA locomotive being restored.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:12 pm

Here one for you guys on the west side of the state

James Sofonia · Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:40 am

Michael wrote:Here one for you guys on the west side of the state

Took me a while to find it in this tiny town, Michigan Central depot at Dutton, Mi.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:27 am

Good job Pixl. I thought for sure PM1223 was going to chime in on that one.
How about this one?

The other direction. The tracks went right down this center of this road

Hogger1225 · Unread post by **Hogger1225** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:35 am

Ypsilanti?

Unread post by **AARR** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:36 am

Ypsilanti. Spur to Ford?

Michael wrote:How about this one?

The other direction. The tracks went right down this center of this road

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:45 am

Yes. You guys nailed it.

Unread post by **~Z~** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:56 am

Where be it?
Looking one way, and the other:

http://i.imgur.com/cI94KvZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/96gaLqu.jpg

Unread post by **AARR** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:01 am

Bativa? The place between Sturgis and Coldwater IIRC.

~Z~ wrote:Where be it?
Looking one way, and the other:

http://i.imgur.com/cI94KvZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/96gaLqu.jpg

Unread post by **~Z~** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:05 am

Correct...far too quick answering

Unread post by **~Z~** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:13 am

Here's another... one view looking north, second looking south at a golf course that now is built on the ROW.

http://i.imgur.com/mVd5T9N.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/c54EcQR.jpg

James Sofonia · Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:44 am

~Z~ wrote:Correct...far too quick answering

Maybe because I had this same spot up a few weeks ago, and they got it right away that time too.

Unread post by **~Z~** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:52 am

Pixl wrote:
~Z~ wrote:Correct...far too quick answering
Maybe because I had this same spot up a few weeks ago, and they got it right away that time too.

Doh... i pulled a pixl

eh, it happens. Have a wack at the golf course one I posted

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