A buddy of mine is interested in knowing who switches out the Tri-State’s Lumber yard on the East Side of Saginaw.
It’s on an old NYC Line that at one point was also run by the CMGN but was then later abandoned over I-75 when MDOT wanted the bridge gone (customer is located West of the highway).
Did Central Michigan/Huron Eastern retain trackage rights to switch the lumber yard or were they given up to CSX, now Lake State?
Tri-State's Lumber Saginaw Question
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Re: Tri-State's Lumber Saginaw Question
HESR uses trackage rights from Mershon to ??? Jct. where they access the short branch to switch Tri-State. Last I heard Tri-State was getting 1-2 cars per week.
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Re: Tri-State's Lumber Saginaw Question
Does Eikenhout still get service? Its spur crosses Tri-State's spur at a diamond on the west edge of Tri-State's property. It's shiny in the vicinity of the diamond at least in the most recent aerial imagery.
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I don't think Eikenhout ever received rail service. Timber Roots was on the same spur as Eikenhout and may have received a few cars but they were acquired by Probuild around 2012 (?) and closed that location.
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Re: Tri-State's Lumber Saginaw Question
I always thought this industrial spur setup with the diamond was kind of fascinating and would be fun to model. Too bad you can’t really get closer to it on the ground. I had no idea if it was still switched or what road did so.
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Re: Tri-State's Lumber Saginaw Question
Well my friends i have seen lumber loads at Eikenhout before when they first moved in there i don't go by there near as much as i used to tho before Eikenhout it was a Wickes Lumber that spur was completely rehabbed i was in Wickes Lumber there about 1990 the last time and the old heads told me that the last time they received lumber by rail was in 1973 they had to turn to trucks because Penn Centrals service was not very good.
Re: Tri-State's Lumber Saginaw Question
Thanks for the additional info, penn central. I wonder what the Eikenhout spur, at least the part near the diamond, has been used for in the past couple years. Shiny rails visible for a little ways in the latest Google Maps image. Some type of aid for switching Tri-State? Though I'm scratching my head trying to figure how it would help in that regard. From looking at aerial photos, the Wickes/Eikenhout spur was built sometime between May 1966 and September 1970, while Tri-State's was built between 1955 and 1965.