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~Z~ wrote:Image
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Doesn't look like this business ahead has rail service. Looks like the google car saw this tractor ahead, and turned around as they didn't map any further.
Draw a line east and west, and this shot is located south of Lansing.

I remember seeing this exact image and thinking the same thing about the tractor but I cannot remember where it was. :(
As a hint, we are looking east on a section of railroad that runs directly north and south, and the railline ends a few miles south of this photo.
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~Z~ wrote:
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~Z~ wrote:Image
http://i.imgur.com/twElKpS.jpg
Doesn't look like this business ahead has rail service. Looks like the google car saw this tractor ahead, and turned around as they didn't map any further.
Draw a line east and west, and this shot is located south of Lansing.

I remember seeing this exact image and thinking the same thing about the tractor but I cannot remember where it was. :(
As a hint, we are looking east on a section of railroad that runs directly north and south, and the railline ends a few miles south of this photo.
So on the Jackson and Lansing???
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@Zack...down the branch from Jackson to the south? Ex Cincinatti & Northern?
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~Z~ wrote:
Michael wrote:
~Z~ wrote:Image
http://i.imgur.com/twElKpS.jpg
Doesn't look like this business ahead has rail service. Looks like the google car saw this tractor ahead, and turned around as they didn't map any further.
Draw a line east and west, and this shot is located south of Lansing.

I remember seeing this exact image and thinking the same thing about the tractor but I cannot remember where it was. :(
As a hint, we are looking east on a section of railroad that runs directly north and south, and the railline ends a few miles south of this photo.

That hint refreshed my memory. It is Sturgis off Clark Street. Google Maps has it labeled the Morgan Olson Corporation
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Where 2 rail trails meet
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The sign is not blanked out enough so I know the answer. Otherwise I'd never have guessed it without hints :oops: I think the line from bottom to top is the old Chessie/PM and from left to right is the old MIGN/PC/PENN.
Michael wrote:Where 2 rail trails meet
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AARR wrote:The sign is not blanked out enough so I know the answer. Otherwise I'd never have guessed it without hints :oops: I think the line from bottom to top is the old Chessie/PM and from left to right is the old MIGN/PC/PENN.
Michael wrote:Where 2 rail trails meet
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Oh man. I didn't even realize that was Reed City's coat of arms/family crest symbol on the sign :lol:
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~Z~ wrote:
Pixl wrote:While we look for Z's location (which doesn't exist) I'll throw this one up.

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Clark St in Clinton, looking south.
That is correct. :D
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That hint refreshed my memory. It is Sturgis off Clark Street. Google Maps has it labeled the Morgan Olson Corporation
Correct as well :)
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AARR wrote:The sign is not blanked out enough so I know the answer. Otherwise I'd never have guessed it without hints :oops: I think the line from bottom to top is the old Chessie/PM and from left to right is the old MIGN/PC/PENN.
Michael wrote:Where 2 rail trails meet
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You can see this site from the roads nearby. I do like how the Pere Marquette Rail Trail and The White Pine Trail utilized the diamond. I wonder why it was never lifted?
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MQT1223 wrote: I wonder why it was never lifted?
So they could create something like this.
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Did the PM and GR&I (PRR) ever interchange at Reed City?
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I found this photo on the net. It is supposed to be in Saginaw, I looked all over but could not find it. Maybe someone else can.

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I'm pretty sure they did but I don't know what kind of traffic they exchanged.

MIGN and Chessie interchanged at Reed City. Lumber and Natural Gas IIRC.
MQT1223 wrote:Did the PM and GR&I (PRR) ever interchange at Reed City?
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Pixl wrote:I found this photo on the net. It is supposed to be in Saginaw, I looked all over but could not find it. Maybe someone else can.

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It is probably this spot on Cumberland Street https://goo.gl/maps/mUe5h going to the TRW plant
The photo posted on the Saginaw city's website must be old because it looks like they "fixed" it in this 2012 street view image :lol:
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Michael wrote:
Pixl wrote:I found this photo on the net. It is supposed to be in Saginaw, I looked all over but could not find it. Maybe someone else can.

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It is probably this spot on Cumberland Street https://goo.gl/maps/mUe5h going to the TRW plant
The photo posted on the Saginaw city's website must be old because it looks like they "fixed" it in this 2012 street view image :lol:
Michael, as usual you are right, verified with the rusty guard rail in the back. I didn't think about the age of the photo and skimmed over this spot a few times.
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I don't think this one needs a hint for you train lovers but we shall see
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Train "Lovers Lane" North of Three Rivers, mile post 31 from Elkhart.

Michael wrote:I don't think this one needs a hint for you train lovers but we shall see
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Pixl wrote:Train "Lovers Lane" North of Three Rivers, mile post 31 from Elkhart.

Michael wrote:I don't think this one needs a hint for you train lovers but we shall see
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New signals installed along this sub
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