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A blustery spring day finds ICE train M-SPKC easing through the Mississippi River town of Lansing, IA.
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.
After a severe thunderstorm inflicted significant hardware damage, CSX has begun the process of removing the searchlights on the former Pere Marquette main between Plymouth and Grand Rapids. While progress has been slow, crews have recently cut over both ends of the Trowbridge siding in east Lansing.
East Trowbridge is where the Plymouth Sub becomes the Lansing Sub westward toward Grand Rapids. Detroit to Grand Rapids road freight L30225 has a fairly big train on this day as they roll across Mount Hope Road and past the now removed Pere Marquette signals, painted with the day's last rays of sun.
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.
Two of the four locomotives that was recently bought from LSRC are completed and in service on the Jackson & Lansing Railroad as they crawl across the Red Cedar River Bridge in Lansing, Michigan.
I got a couple more photos from, in the words of Mr. Honcho, the proper side of the Mississippi (barely), to wrap up a Blue and Gold streak.
ICE 6454, 6400, and 6441 lead a KCS "feeder train" along the river front in Lansing, Iowa. Initially, the plan for this day was to drive towards Tracy to find 470 heading east. However, around Eyota we bumped into this train and immediately changed plans. The morning got even better when we found out that 270 was coming down river with a four pack of blues.
During the ICE era and into CP's re-ownership, the Marquette Sub was a pretty quiet piece of railroad. By this time, the daily Saint Paul-KC manifest 270, and it's counterpart 271, were the only trains to ply these rails. However, in 2013 CP dabbled a little with these KCS feeder trains off the DME. They only ran a few, but it was a sign of things to come.
Since then, CP has made significant improvements to the line with the installation of CWR, many of the bridges have been upgraded, a new siding at Harpers Ferry has been installed, and now a larger volume of trains pass through Lansing. When I was last over here in 2017, I was shocked to see three trains fleeting their way down river. Of course, none of them had power that looked like this.
I posted another shot of this train a very long time ago in my Marquette Sub Album for those that are interested.
About half way through the lansing "Street Running" The 7015 keeps chugging away to the crew change in Marquette.
With the five units wide open here Lansing coal rolls west near Bancroft, Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western Flint subdivision lead by former boiler GP9 4930 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.
Lansing bound coal out of Toledo rolls north of Pontiac, Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western this day behind 3 Canadian National GP38's borrowed from the parent road in a power crunch. Here westbound approaching Andersonville Road near Clarkston on March 19, 1977 - note: the Nickle Plate Road 70 ton triple hopper 3rd back.
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 like the Capitol from the west sid...not as often viewed nor photgraphed from this side. I like that the Michigan national Twoer(Boji Building) is in the background. 2 of our mor prominent land marks
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.
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.