Eastern Railroad Discussion > 4/10/24 CN Train S 703 in Michigan with foreign power.

4/10/24 18:14 66 degrees  at CN Charlotte, Michigan  as CP 8559 and rear train DPU, KCS 4112,  power Train S 703 past the old GTW depot and over the ChS junction switch. Great horn on leader. Train is going to Durand, Michigan for interchange with HESR shortline. Full 1:53 video



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/24 18:50 by ngfan.

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We don't see much from those parts of Michigan. Thanks.
O.T. I really like the brickwork on the the old Charlotte station building and the unique use of multi-color bricks by the Masons who built it. In today's speak nice work with Legos!
Even more off-topic if you go back to the Fifties (before Legos) an alternate to the popular Lincoln Logs building set, there was the American Bricks set (I'm shooting from the hip here, this was a mere 70 years ago and the name of the brick set may be wrong, please correct me if you are old enough to remember these!). TheAmerican Bricks were Lego like' red blocks' originally pressed from wood of some sort with plastic doors and windows along with a pressed green simulated shingle roofs all in a cardboard can (about the size of today's Quaker Oats, Instant Oats can, with a metal screw off top. By the time I received a set from Santa, the American Bricks became the then dreaded brittle plastic and were a PITA as they would stick together. You pretty much had to pry them apart with a knife. Great feature for a kid's toy! But then again this was when litho metal toys, including Marx toy trains, all had sharp metal edges, eventually banned by government in interest in safety. Nothing like a kid throwing a knofe like metal toy across the room!
So just how far can T.O. take me?
T.O. has a knack of dredging up memories from not only my childhood but my teen years and even today's pretty much crap in comparison. Where's Photo Bob?
Gonut

Gonut1 Wrote:
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> We don't see much from those parts of Michigan.
> Thanks.
> O.T. I really like the brickwork on the the old
> Charlotte station building and the unique use of
> multi-color bricks by the Masons who built it. In
> today's speak nice work with Legos!
> Even more off-topic if you go back to the Fifties
> (before Legos) an alternate to the popular Lincoln
> Logs building set, there was the American Bricks
> set (I'm shooting from the hip here, this was a
> mere 70 years ago and the name of the brick set
> may be wrong, please correct me if you are old
> enough to remember these!). TheAmerican Bricks
> were Lego like' red blocks' originally pressed
> from wood of some sort with plastic doors and
> windows along with a pressed green simulated
> shingle roofs all in a cardboard can (about the
> size of today's Quaker Oats, Instant Oats can,
> with a metal screw off top. By the time I received
> a set from Santa, the American Bricks became the
> then dreaded brittle plastic and were a PITA as
> they would stick together. You pretty much had to
> pry them apart with a knife. Great feature for a
> kid's toy! But then again this was when litho
> metal toys, including Marx toy trains, all had
> sharp metal edges, eventually banned by government
> in interest in safety. Nothing like a kid throwing
> a knofe like metal toy across the room!
> So just how far can T.O. take me?
> T.O. has a knack of dredging up memories from not
> only my childhood but my teen years and even
> today's pretty much crap in comparison. Where's
> Photo Bob?
> Gonut

i remember those bricks and Lincoln Logs as almost complimentary play items with the old Lionel Ttain set too. 😁

The old GTW depot is rapidly succumbing to the elements.  Sad to see it decline overtime. Once a vibrant stop where' school children were given their first train experience in LANSING Public Schools. Due to schedules a classroom could ride a west bound passenger train to Charlotte and wait about 30 min here before catching the East bound back. Countless thousands of children had that experience in the pre Amtrak era.

When I photograph here I think of that first grade experience lost now.

Have a good night.
Larry 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/24 19:49 by ngfan.

Former-GTW Depot, Charlotte, Michigan. April 20, 2013. 

Ron
 

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Former-GTW Depot, Charlotte, Michigan. April 20, 2013. 


Ron

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