Yes, indeed, it's the Detroit Zoo at Woodward Avenue and 10 Mile Road, Royal Oak, Oakland County. looking east. The Detroit Zoo RR trains staging area (actually located in Huntington Woods) is on east side of the concreate wall pictured above. 10 Mile Road and I-696 are both to the right (not visible). The Detroit Zoo RR will begin its 87th season in a week from this Monday. I rode on the Zoo train a few times in the past.
Engadine, looking east along the CN RR Soo Sub (former Soo Line RR) to the Soo from the M-117 crossing in the foreground in Engadine, Garfield Township, Mackinac County.
Final run of the remaining passenger train between Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN and Sault Ste Marie, MI with stop in Engadine, was made on March 5, 1960.
In SE Michigan? Kalamazoo or Detroit area? If not, hints please?
Not the West side of Battle Creek but west of Battle Creek. While the SD50 survived into the NS SD40E rebuild program and the track remains in service, the buildings in the pictures have been demolished.
railrod1949 wrote:Somewhere between Galesburg and Augusta with M-96 at the right in PatAzo's shot above.
Further west. Penn Central once loading piggyback trailers here.
Penn Central RR's Mosel Yard. Kalamazoo, actually in Kalamazoo Township, Kalamazoo County looking south across W. Mosel Avenue. Mosel Yard office was on the NE corner of Mosel Avenue and the former GR&I track an d the old Eaton Plant site was on the SW corner of W. Mosel Avenue and the track. Final run forever of the remaining passenger train on the former Pennsylvania Railroad between Fort Wayne, IN and Mackinaw City with stop in Kalamazoo was on Friday, September 1, 1961 Fridays only northbound Fort Wayne to Mack City and Tuesday, September 5, 1961 Sundays only southbound, Mack City to Fort Wayne with stop in Kalamazoo.
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PatAzo wrote:A nearly new SD50, so that will date the picture.
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railrod1949 wrote:Somewhere between Galesburg and Augusta with M-96 at the right in PatAzo's shot above.
Further west. Penn Central once loading piggyback trailers here.
Penn Central RR's Mosel Yard. Kalamazoo.
Yes, Mosel Yard. That is the old yard office on the left. Across Mosel on the right it the old Eaton plant. A slightly more current view was in Where Is It back in April after both buildings were demolished.