Where Is It?

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This rare brick deck bridge is still in use although the tracks underneath are long gone.
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Thomson Road Bridge near Niles. Pretty cool bridge. Hard to find because you can't get anywhere near it with street view.

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Pixl wrote:Thomson Road Bridge near Niles. Pretty cool bridge. Hard to find because you can't get anywhere near it with street view.
What Railroad was underneath it and how long ago?
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MQT1223 wrote:
Pixl wrote:Thomson Road Bridge near Niles. Pretty cool bridge. Hard to find because you can't get anywhere near it with street view.
What Railroad was underneath it and how long ago?
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A little bit more information on the Thomson Road RR Bridge over the MAL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_R ... oad_Bridge

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This should be easy. If you don't already know where it is Pixl, it is available on Google Street View :)
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Is that the old coal tower in Lansing over CN? Something doesn't look quite right...maybe it's the angle :?
Michael wrote:This should be easy. If you don't already know where it is Pixl, it is available on Google Street View :)
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AARR wrote:Is that the old coal tower in Lansing over CN? Something doesn't look quite right...maybe it's the angle :?
Michael wrote:This should be easy. If you don't already know where it is Pixl, it is available on Google Street View :)
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I tried not to make it too easy by showing the top of the tower but you got it AARR.
The girl sitting on the tracks does not seem impressed but I think it is cool.

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It wasn't too easy. Whatever you did to the picture had me 2nd guessing a fixture I normally would have known quite easily. Well done 8)
Michael wrote:
AARR wrote:Is that the old coal tower in Lansing over CN? Something doesn't look quite right...maybe it's the angle :?
Michael wrote:This should be easy. If you don't already know where it is Pixl, it is available on Google Street View :)
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I tried not to make it too easy by showing the top of the tower but you got it AARR.
The girl sitting on the tracks does not seem impressed but I think it is cool.
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Michael wrote:This should be easy. If you don't already know where it is Pixl, it is available on Google Street View :)
No, I didn't know it, would have had to dig for it like everybody else. If it is within 50 miles or so of Traverse City I know it and probably wouldn't answer because of that, at least not right away.

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Here's one that is within 50 miles of TC
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Michael wrote:Here's one that is within 50 miles of TC
Well ya got me already. I don't know it and will have to dig around.

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Michael wrote:Here's one that is within 50 miles of TC
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Jochs posted this from another angle a long time ago in another thread...Mancelona.

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It doesn't show well in the landsat photo and I flew over this spot twice. I finally noticed the tank track that barely shows on the left side ofyour photo. Then I knew to look again at S. Boardman or Mancelona where I've seen those tanks, and there it was in Mancelona next to the GLC.
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Here's one. Who thinks they can get it?

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Is it near Saginaw?
AMTK55 wrote:Here's one. Who thinks they can get it?

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AMTK55 wrote:Here's one. Who thinks they can get it?
Can you put the compass back in or at least tell us which way the photo is orientated? thank you.

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AMTK55 wrote:Here's one. Who thinks they can get it?

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Freeland. Google shows it as E Washington Road, although it looks like the road may also be named Freeland Road in the general vicinity. The track equipment is also visible in the overhead view.
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780 Oak St in Wyandotte. I hadn't been there before, but heard some members of the site gather near here so went browsing ages ago for this spot. Saw that depot and figured that was it.
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