Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Summerail trip - 6

Hi, Thursday, August 16, was not productive. The day dawned with bright sunshine in Midland, MI; where we had spent the night. Bill Kalkman had done some research on Google Maps satellite view and located both the Lake State Yard and the Huron & Eastern Yard. We immediately headed for the Lake State yard. However, every road that the map showed would take us to the yard passed through the fence surrounding the Dow Chemical Company complex here. When we attempted to drive to the Huron & Eastern yard we again encountered fences and guard posts.

We concluded that both yards were within the plant complex and that we could not get to them. So we decided to move on to Durand, MI.

When we arrived at Durand we had an opportunity to look around the museum in the station even though it was not officially open; as one of the members was there. They have an ACES board there from which we learned a westbound was approaching. As the weather had gone cloudy we elected to shoot it across the tracks from the station.

Later we saw at a distance and heard a train switching in the Huron & Eastern yard north of the CN main line. However, we were unable to get close and we were at the wrong end of the yard when it left town. After lunch we headed for Royal Oak, MI where we would spend Friday morning at the Woodward Dream Cruise.

Friday afternoon we drove to Berea, OH where we had a very nice dinner at the Depot Restaurant on the terrace overlooking the tracks here. The next morning we returned to Berea for photography (for an earlier post on Berea see -
http://capitollimited.blogspot.com/search/label/Ohio?updated-max=2017-08-16T21:23:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=3&by-date=false).

Note that all of the trackage here was originally New York Central, then Penn Central, then Conrail. The Conrail split resulted in NS getting one route through the area (it is now part of their Chicago Line) and CSX getting the other (it is now part of their route from New Jersey and New England to the midwest).

The action began almost as soon as we got to Berea. First was an eastbound manifest passing a westbound tank train (above and below).


All of the elevated photos were taken from the bridge in the photo above. The train is westbound.

This train also is westbound.

An eastbound stack train passed the tower (above and below). The tower is out of service.


Back on the ground I caught an SD80MAC westbound with a tank train.

After I returned to the bridge two more eastbound stack trains passed the tower (above and below).

This train was moving so slowly that

I was able to change locations for a second shot.

A young railfan gave an easbound CSX stacker the high sign.

Thanks for looking.

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