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NS 3283 |
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A southbound GLM (River Rouge MI-Portage IN) has just departed River Rouge Yard on track #1 and is accelerating past Ford Avenue at milepost 11 in Wyandotte, Michigan on June 5th, 1999. The MGL and GLM trains usually have 4 axle High Hood NS units assigned to them. This day SD40-2, however, is an exception to the rule. The reason why four axles are common on this train is because when the train gets to Burns Harbor, the track is only good for the four axles units. Six axles require the inbound crew to swap out power before they can get on the Midwest Steel trackage. We were stoked. Here you can see the lay of the land along this four-track right of way. To the right is Conrail track #1 and the GTW River Spur. To the left is the GTW Shore Line Subdivision. It is not uncommon for a pair of trains moving in the same direction on separate mainlines to pass here simultaneously. |
| Photo Date: |
6/5/1999 Upload Date: 9/16/2014 4:31:29 PM |
| Location: |
Wyandotte, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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Action |
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NS 3283(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
GTW 5921 |
| Description: |
GTW, er, CN train 242 (Flint-CSX Toledo Stanley) is southbound near milepost 46 of the GTW, er, CN Shore Line Subdivision at Ford Avenue in Wyandotte, MI, at 10:30 on a hot, sultry June Sunday morning. GTW 5921 leads GTW 5930 (in CN paint) and 35 cars on this day. Both mains of the Conrail Detroit Line as well as the GTW, er CN River Spur are out of the frame on the right. |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1999 Upload Date: 9/16/2014 4:58:08 PM |
| Location: |
Wyandotte, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 5921(SD40) GTW 5930(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
GTW 5901 |
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CN train 512 (Flat Tock-South Yard Turn) is northbound at the McLouth Steel Rolling Mill in Trenton. GTW 5919 is his trailing unit. At around 1730 we saw him heading back to Flat Rock Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1999 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 10:50:59 AM |
| Location: |
Trenton, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 5901(SD40) |
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| Title: |
GTW 5924 |
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CN train 798 (Toledo Lang - BW&L Lansing) is northbound at milepost 34.1 Denby of the GTW, er, CN Shore Line Subdivision on a cold, damp April Sunday morning. His lead unit is in CNNA paint, but all of the following units (5936, 6415, 6415, 6415, 4921) are in GTW paint. Todays train has loaded CSXT and NYC bottom dump coal hoppers of C&OBU coal bound for the Board of Water and Light power plant at Lansing, MI. This coal came from either a Kentucky or West Virginia mine. Denby is where the Shore Line Subdivision crosses the old Conrail McLouth Spur to the former McLouth Steel Rolling mill about ¾ mile south of GTW Edison Yard. The spur comes off of the northbound main of the Conrail Detroit Line, which is delineated by the telegraph line on the right. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/2000 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 11:02:24 AM |
| Location: |
Trenton, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 5924(SD40) |
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| Title: |
GTW 4921 |
| Description: |
We are standing just below the West Road Bridge in Trenton, Michigan on April 29 2000.. CN train 385 (Toronto - Flat Rock) is southbound on the River Spur and is about to lean into Chandlers Curve, taking it due west through D&I Junction and to Flat Rock yard, just 4 miles away from here. |
| Photo Date: |
4/29/2000 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 10:42:44 AM |
| Location: |
Trenton, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 4921(GP38-2) |
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| Title: |
CN train 455 (Flat Rock-Battle Creek) |
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We are at Conrail SAA Trenton Yard looking southwest at GTW, er, CN train 455 (Flat Rock - Battle Creek) northbound on the GTW, er, CN River Spur on April 30 2000. He is about to enter the limits of FN Tower and cross to the other side of the Conrail SAA Detroit Line. In the consist this day he had GTW 5921, 5901, 5922, and 4921. The track in the foreground is the Conrail SAA Detroit Line #2 track. Beyond that are the rails of the Conrail SAA Detroit Line #1 track. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/2000 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 10:33:56 AM |
| Location: |
Trenton, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 5921(SD40) GTW 5901(SD40) GTW 5922(SD40) GTW 4921(GP38-2) |
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| Title: |
GTW 4600 |
| Description: |
GTW 4600, one of the products of the GTW GP9R rebuild program, trundles engline-light northward on the GTW, er, CN River Spur through Wyandotte Michigan as GTW, er, CN train GTW 227 (Edison Yard-South Yard-Flat Rock Turn) in the last light of a June evening in 2000. In addition to hosting shipyards, this area as once the heart of the Downriver chemical industry. Today, Wyandotte is a residential area with some light industry which is served by Ford Yard in Wyandotte (less than a mile south of here) and Edison Yard in Trenton. The Conrail Detroit Line #2 main is to the right, and beyond that is the Detroit Line #1 main and the CNIC Shoreline Subdivision. After all these years, we still refer to these rails respectivly as The DT&I, Conrail, and the Shore Line. |
| Photo Date: |
6/17/2000 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 10:16:49 AM |
| Location: |
Wyandotte, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
Track |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 4600(GP9R) |
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376 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DC 372 |
| Description: |
A Delray Connecting Railroad bottle train is pulling loads of molten iron from the US Steel Great Lakes Works iron producing facility on Zug Island southward to the US Steel Great Lakes Works steel producing facility in Ecorse, MI. Our location is at the Belanger Park Drive grade crossing in River Rouge. August 15 10:30 am. |
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8/15/2014 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 7:46:42 PM |
| Location: |
River Rouge, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
DC 372(MP15DC) |
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694 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DC 372 |
| Description: |
A Delray Connecting Railroad bottle train is pulling loads of molten iron from the US Steel Great Lakes Works iron producing facility on Zug Island southward to the US Steel Great Lakes Works steel producing facility in Ecorse, MI. Our location is at the Belanger Park Drive grade crossing in River Rouge. August 15 10:30 am. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/2014 Upload Date: 9/16/2014 4:21:34 PM |
| Location: |
River Rouge, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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Action |
| Locomotives: |
DC 372(MP15DC) |
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295 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DCRR Bottle Car 27 |
| Description: |
A Delray Connecting Railroad bottle train is pulling loads of molten iron from the US Steel Great Lakes Works iron producing facility on Zug Island southward to the US Steel Great Lakes Works steel producing facility in Ecorse, MI. Our location is at the Belanger Park Drive grade crossing in River Rouge. August 15 10:30 am. |
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8/15/2014 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 8:14:25 PM |
| Location: |
River Rouge, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
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RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
DC 372(MP15DC) |
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225 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DCRR Bottle car 31 |
| Description: |
A Delray Connecting Railroad bottle train is pulling loads of molten iron from the US Steel Great Lakes Works iron producing facility on Zug Island southward to the US Steel Great Lakes Works steel producing facility in Ecorse, MI. Our location is at the Belanger Park Drive grade crossing in River Rouge. August 15 10:30 am. |
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8/15/2014 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 8:19:10 PM |
| Location: |
River Rouge, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
DC 372(MP15DC) |
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180 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DCRR Bottle Car 49 |
| Description: |
A Delray Connecting Railroad bottle train is pulling loads of molten iron from the US Steel Great Lakes Works iron producing facility on Zug Island southward to the US Steel Great Lakes Works steel producing facility in Ecorse, MI. Our location is at the Belanger Park Drive grade crossing in River Rouge. August 15 10:30 am. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/2014 Upload Date: 9/17/2014 8:21:24 PM |
| Location: |
River Rouge, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
DC 372(MP15DC) |
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205 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GO Transit 665 |
| Description: |
It may seem incongruous to have a brand new Canadian commuter rail locomotive parked next to a Downriver Detroit Marathon oil refinery in the same yard as an NS caboose that was built generations ago, but here we have it. GO Transit 665, an MPI MP40PH-C is shown here sitting all alone in the NS (former Wabash/N&W) PB yard (Piggy Back), which is part of Detroit Oakwood Yard. We presume he was set off there for pickup by CP for delivery to Toronto. The cab is used for NS Wayne-Oakwood work on NS Local B19. |
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8/15/2014 Upload Date: 9/19/2014 11:53:17 AM |
| Location: |
Melvindale, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
GOT 665(MP40PH-3C) |
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