Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 6:08 PM Subject: Headsup Q 386 Waybill Hi Railfans Q 386 will leave Willard this evening with 6 units and one special waybill...
Some time back there was a discussion on this list about the availability of Dean Freytag's book "The History, Making and Modeling of Steel" published in 1995...
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 12:32 PM Subject: Headsup X 247 Hi Railfans An X 247 autoracks passed thru Willard at 11:30 heading West with CP9018-CSX 8452 CP...
Good Afternoon and Happy New Year, Everyone: It was 50 years ago when a rapid transit parking lot with space for 718 cars was planned at the Detroit-West ...
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 2:21 PM Subject: Headsup West Q 375 Hi Railfans Q 375 left Willard clearing Daniels Rd at 1:15pm this afternoon with GCFX 3093...
Hi Guys, I was wondering where all those cars went. They keep those in West Springfield, MA and i noticed they were gone the other day. The self propelled...
Hello, I have a Shinko S545 dye-sub printer 8x10. It is a great printer and have used it for printing slide scans of my rail slides. This is a pro printer and...
I requested some off-topic help with shooting photos at ISG for a magazine article last month. Some of you requested information on where the article would...
Greetings! A featured article on the Cleveland Plain Dealer's web site discusses a proposal to convert the old Erie line from Cleveland through North Randall...
Not to bash the rail-trail people, but if they decide to do that, they and all the other bike/hike people should just create an Erie Lackawanna bike trail,...
Brad, I don't think you can really fault the bike-trail folks on trying to create trails. After all, the *railroads* abandoned these lines, not the trail...
In a message dated 1/3/2005 10:10:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, jordak@... writes: I don't think you can really fault the bike-trail folks on trying to ...
From: <Btrains@... ... "direct" way to ... I'm not arguing against saving the EL but it didn't get much more direct than Conrail's former NYC route from...
Brad, Original reference back in 2002 with no update can be found here: http://www.slavicvillage.org/Neighborhood/points.htm Click on Wheeling & Lake Erie Rail...
On this board we have written about several of the RR branches built to the sites of local quarries. The Euclid RR and the Lake Erie and Terminal RR come to...
morning bill... my hubby (bill) would be interested in something like this, but more so about the quarry in berea. because of the quarry, his family home was...
A couple good books about the Berea Quarries: "Then There Was None" by Mickey Sego & "Men of Grit and Greatness" by W.F. Holzworth. Both at local libraries...
Todd: Thank you for the link to your article on ISG. I've only read the first few paragraphs, but it looks like it is worth my time to finish the article. No...
thank you very much ron. will definately have to check them out. i think they would make interesting reading while bill's sitting on the train waiting for a...
I'm guessing what you saw was the closing of the lower deck of the Detriot-Superior (now Veterans Memorial) Bridge, which is often refered to as a subway (it...
This Month in Railroad History - January • January 1814 First railway survey in America conducted by Colonel John Stevens, an ex-officer of the Continental...
Did anyone mention the tours they conduct under the Detroit Bridge Labor Day and Memorial Day. You can see the old tracks, etc. The old stone building just...
I miss this one every year (is that two years now? didn't know they do it on Memorial Day). Went to Ponte de Vecchio's for New Years Eve dinner which is right...
In a message dated 1/5/05 5:55:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Yup, that's the old Superior viaduct. Originally had a center swing span in the middle of the...
Hello, I live in Maine. I want to fly into Cleveland early in the morning, use public transit and my feet to railfan as much as I can, then get back on a...
... morning, use public transit and my feet to railfan as much as I can, then get back on a plane at dark and fly home. Is this practical? If so, can someone...
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