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A blustery spring day finds ICE train M-SPKC easing through the Mississippi River town of Lansing, IA.
No stranger to these rails, a former Soo Line SD60 curves through the beautiful bluff country of the northern Mississippi River watershed just south of Lansing, Iowa with a train of loaded auto racks bound for Kansas City.
I use 'Sunsetting' because if you look on right side of the photo, they are building a new bridge to replace this beauty. The current bridge crosses between Lansing, IA over the river to Wisconsin.
As the year goes by - the view may be destroyed and eventually the bridge. (It is known as Black Hawk Bridge )
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This is a modified version of a photo I uploaded in May. I'm uploading this version to submit to the "best shot 2016" group. I really like it, especially with these color effects, courtesy of Topaz Texture Effects.
Soo Line train 223 slowly rolls along a frozen Mississippi River at Lansing, Iowa, on a dreary, wintery February 20, 1993. Lead locomotive, Soo Line EMD GP38-2 No. 4512, is a former Milwaukee Road locomotive in weathered “Bandit” patches, while trailing SD35 is a former Norfolk & Western locomotive with new GM logos applied to the unit that is now part of EMD’s lease fleet.
Lansing coal train #821 out of Toledo, pulls hard on the Grand Trunk Westernn, Flint subdivision west of Durand, Michigan. The power roaring loud are 3 former boiler GP9's a CN GP38 and GTW GP38AC pulling the grade west of town on April 3, 1977.
The banks of the Red Cedar River in Lansing could really use a good trimming and cleaning. This little open spot was about all I could do before the train got here. While this spot was already a thing it was tight so started breaking shit off and hoping I could get over far enough to get a shot. My first option was to get river level but the never ending sinkage into the mud that would have occurred quickly put an end to that when I tip toed into the bank initially. While this shot isn't going anywhere soon an entire new paint scheme and locomotives will call this line home with the 9's making soon to be seldom seen runs.
CN 5299 leads CN E251 from Flat Rock Michigan to Battle Creek MI. Here they are going under the old Grand Trunk coal tower in Lansing on a snowy Saturday.
On September 18, 1985 train 222 parts Lansing Iowa at about 10mph with Hiawatha SD40-2's 196 and 187 leading 123 cars. The ROW was in pretty close proximity to just about everything in Lansing and the crew took it slow easing through town.
I grew up less than 30 minutes from this coal tower for 19 years and with all my visits to Lansing I never once shot this coal tower until this day 8 years after moving from Owosso. Here CN train 399 rolls under the massive c4 track coal tower in Lansing MI, good power and good weather made for a great first day at the tower.
With the coaling tower in the background, CN E274 crosses over the Red Cedar River in Lansing, Michigan traveling east on CN's Flint Subdivision on a wet fall day. CN 8900 and UP 8985 are the power for this 274 with loaded autoracks for Canada.
My wife and I drove out to Lansing after the kids went to work. Pictures of the capitol and then dinner at Lansing Brewery.
It was a beautiful night.
Lansing Shoal was built to warn ships from a shallow shoal in the northern shipping lanes leading to the entrance to Green Bay about 12 miles north of the northern tip of Beaver Island.
Just a vertical shot from the Capitol Steps, Lansing Michigan.
I was in town to celebrate my daughter's gaduation from MSU.
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Built in 1937-1939, this Streamline Moderne-style building was designed by the Bowd–Munson Company for the J. W. Knapp Company to serve as a department store. The building is clad in blue, cream, and black vitrolite panels with glass block ribbon windows, a curved corner at the intersection of the two principal facades of the building, an aluminum canopy, large first floor bays with plate glass windows, decorative metal spandrels at the upper levels of the building above the main entrance bays, and a buff brick side and rear facade. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and is a contributing structure in the Lansing Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Where GTW's high-stepping 4-8-4s, 4-8-2s, 4-6-2s and 2-8-2s once paused to refill their tenders, CN diesels now blast by at track speed. A pair of GEs has a westbound auto rack train in tow as they pass under the impressive coaling tower in Lansing.
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Lansing coal train #821 rolls "slowly" through Bloomfield Hills, Mi. on 3-20-77 with the 4546 leading 5 GP9's doing the honors.
From the Wisconsin side looking towards Iowa. I've taken photos of this Bridge, across the mighty Mississippi River many times but am continuing to try to find different perspectives. The leaves were going away fast when I took this shot, it would have been better when the leaves were in their full glory. Ahh, next year?
For another perspective, look at Jackalope (Paul Grillo) shot which maybe found: www.flickr.com/photos/pjgrillo/15347460299/
Milwaukee Road train 413 from Savanna, Ill., en route to La Crosse, Wis. rolls along the street in Lansing, Iowa on August 19, 1978. These trains were regular haunts for Milwaukee Fs in the 1970s.