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GLC north of Cadillac?
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To muddy the waters. Double track and heavily overgrown. Hints as needed but it is in southern Michigan
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The other side of the building
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Between Walton and Traverse City?
Pixl wrote:GLC north of Cadillac? Yes
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Somewhere on old Air Line between Jackson and Three Rivers?
ConrailMan5 wrote:To muddy the waters. Double track and heavily overgrown. Hints as needed but it is in southern Michigan
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AARR wrote:Somewhere on old Air Line between Jackson and Three Rivers?
ConrailMan5 wrote:To muddy the waters. Double track and heavily overgrown. Hints as needed but it is in southern Michigan
Actually I think this is the tan brick building located west of Ann Arbor Saline Road in Saline.
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59caddy wrote:
AARR wrote:Somewhere on old Air Line between Jackson and Three Rivers?
ConrailMan5 wrote:To muddy the waters. Double track and heavily overgrown. Hints as needed but it is in southern Michigan
Actually I think this is the tan brick building located west of Ann Arbor Saline Road in Saline.
I kne posting the full building would be too much. Correct
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Pixl wrote:Image
That is Walloon Lake between Petoskey and Boyne Falls at the corner of River Road and Clarion Street. Did you do a little traveling Pixl? :)
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Exactly where is it?
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Clark Street, Detroit, old Cadillac Plant?
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AARR wrote:Clark Street, Detroit, old Cadillac Plant?
Michael wrote:Exactly where is it?
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Nope. No hints
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Michael wrote:That is Walloon Lake between Petoskey and Boyne Falls at the corner of River Road and Clarion Street. Did you do a little traveling Pixl? :)
You are correct. I was up at Petoskey yesterday to fix a radio tower we have there. Stopped to take a picture at Clarion, almost a ghost town. It doesn't look like this anymore.

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Michael wrote:
AARR wrote:Clark Street, Detroit, old Cadillac Plant?
Michael wrote:Exactly where is it?
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Nope. No hints
Windsor, looking west from Via Station.
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milineamtrak wrote:Windsor, looking west from Via Station.
Verified. A clever location Michael.
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Hint: There used to be full size Railroad Ferries that docked and loaded rail cars here.

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Grand Haven?
Pixl wrote:Hint: There used to be full size Railroad Ferries that docked and loaded here.

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AARR wrote:Grand Haven?
Unless he rotated the image, that satellite image would be of the east side of the state.
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J T wrote:Unless he rotated the image, that satellite image would be of the east side of the state.
I thought about doing that, I did take the compass out that I usually leave in. But this location may be difficult enough without doing that. N is straight up.
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Pixl wrote:Hint: There used to be full size Railroad Ferries that docked and loaded here.
Just north of Northport. What is the history of this line?
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