Michigan: The Great Lakes State
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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.
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.
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.
The night crew of the Jackson & Lansing Railroad heads south through Mason, Michigan and rolls past grain with a pair of Adrian & Blissfield GP9's pulling three coil cars for interchange with NS in Jackson.
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Jackson & Lansing Railroad
Mason, MI
JAIL JL1 (Mason, MI to Jackson, MI Turn)
ADBF 1758 GP9R Ex. NHN 1758, CO 6002 GP9 Blt. 1955
ADBF 1760 GP9R Ex. NHN 1760, MCER 7015 GP9, CR 7015, PC 7015, PRR 7015 Blt. 1955
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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/
Lansing, MI - Michigan History Center
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Norfolk Southern's Jackson-Lansing turn job is running south towards the CN diamond at Cedar with just a pair of Geeps and a single, old flatcar on this hot July day. Not long after this, the NS would lease out the line north of Jackson to the Jackson & Lansing RR.
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