Joshua Dudinetz
Abundance of History
Lake State's Z119 crew is northbound at Clio, Michigan with a matching pair of SD40-2s and a healthy-sized train of manifest freight bound for Saginaw and points beyond. Amazingly, both locomotives date all the way back to the year 1966 and were both built as straight SD40s on shorter frames. The 6304 was built for the Chicago & Northwestern as their 878 while the trailing 6302 for the Southern Pacific as their 8405. Even more amazing, the pair of tri-light signals to the right of the train were erected in 1928 as part of the second-ever installation of centralized traffic control (CTC) on a railroad. But most astonishing of all, the Clio depot to the left of the train dates all the way back to 1873, still standing and looking great 149 years after being constructed by the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway. The building is now owned by the Clio Area Historic Association, which has kept it very well maintained since purchasing it in 1977.
Abundance of History
Lake State's Z119 crew is northbound at Clio, Michigan with a matching pair of SD40-2s and a healthy-sized train of manifest freight bound for Saginaw and points beyond. Amazingly, both locomotives date all the way back to the year 1966 and were both built as straight SD40s on shorter frames. The 6304 was built for the Chicago & Northwestern as their 878 while the trailing 6302 for the Southern Pacific as their 8405. Even more amazing, the pair of tri-light signals to the right of the train were erected in 1928 as part of the second-ever installation of centralized traffic control (CTC) on a railroad. But most astonishing of all, the Clio depot to the left of the train dates all the way back to 1873, still standing and looking great 149 years after being constructed by the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway. The building is now owned by the Clio Area Historic Association, which has kept it very well maintained since purchasing it in 1977.