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GTW Flint Yard
Flint Bishop Airport use to put on a great airshow. In June of 1985 the Blue Angels were the featured attraction and they drew a huge crowd as they usually do. This was before the airport expansion and the new terminal. I parked in a grass field between the airport and the GTW railroad yard. After the airshow it was going to be quite awhile before I could depart because of all the people attending. So I wandered over to the railroad yard to check out the switching that was going on.
Back then the GTW had a yard tower to help supervise things. As I was watching along comes an employee who I can only guess was the yardmaster. He had been over watching the airshow too. I was overjoyed when he invited me up into the tower to get a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the action.
In this picture the engine on the left (SW1200 1502), having just sent a Santa Fe boxcar to its destination track, prepares to grab yet another string of cars. The yard tower is long gone as Bristol Rd was rerouted, for the expansion, right about where the tower use to stand.
GTW Flint Yard
Flint Bishop Airport use to put on a great airshow. In June of 1985 the Blue Angels were the featured attraction and they drew a huge crowd as they usually do. This was before the airport expansion and the new terminal. I parked in a grass field between the airport and the GTW railroad yard. After the airshow it was going to be quite awhile before I could depart because of all the people attending. So I wandered over to the railroad yard to check out the switching that was going on.
Back then the GTW had a yard tower to help supervise things. As I was watching along comes an employee who I can only guess was the yardmaster. He had been over watching the airshow too. I was overjoyed when he invited me up into the tower to get a ‘bird’s eye view’ of the action.
In this picture the engine on the left (SW1200 1502), having just sent a Santa Fe boxcar to its destination track, prepares to grab yet another string of cars. The yard tower is long gone as Bristol Rd was rerouted, for the expansion, right about where the tower use to stand.