Ypsilanti, MI Crash 1929

The Depot Town district building did not always have this angle, and for many years there was a small shop in the corner. This changed on the morning of Monday, Jan. 21, 1929, when a train car crashed into the side of the building.

A freight train was passing through Ypsilanti that morning when Michigan Central baggage man Fred Beck saw the truck of a car was off the track. The car was the 12th car from the end of an 85-car freight train...... by James Mann | The Ann Arbor News

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/1929_crash_reshaped_sidetrack.html

The picture I have added I can not find to give credit to. When you click on the website, it says "error." If you know who painted this photo or anything else about the photo I have added, please let me know. I would like to give credit.

Thanks, Lisa

Copper Range Railroad

Copper Range No. 29 was photographed by Stan Mailer on September 28, 1958, at Houghton, Michigan, after its retirement. It was later stored inside the railroad's roundhouse.
http://www.steamlocomotive.info/F92004.cfm



Copper Range Railroad, per Wikipedia, states was a small railroad company that operated from 1899 to 1972 in the western Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Range_Railroad

Main Website:
http://www.pasty.com/copperrange/kmcollection.htm

Historic City of Houghton:
http://history.cityofhoughton.com/history/industry.html

Timeline:
http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Railroads/CopperRange/COPRTimeLine.htm

Wikipedia also mentions: Copper Range #29 is currently under restoration at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin, which also owns former Copper Range Railroad Coach No. 60.

Restoring Copper Range #60:
http://www.midcontinent.org/collectn/woodpas/cr60/page1.html
http://www.midcontinent.org/collectn/woodpas/cr60.html


I just thought you would like to see a place colder than us. haha
Lisa

New Year....New Finds

Have any of you heard of Facebook? Well it's like MySpace for for adults. So far I have not seen any "weird" stuff on there but things like that are everywhere. Any who I am finding old friends that I have not talked to in over 20 years. I guess another fun thing I found is you can join "groups." I joined the Grand Trunk group and there is a Michigan Rail Fan group. This gentleman named Scott Buel said he has some photos on a website. So I went there and what a collection. I see, on the website, that Gene Buel is also a photographer there.

Here is the website: http://sftp.smugmug.com/

It's a MUST see!

Until next post.....Lisa

P.S. I would love to add a picture of their creations here but they are copy writed and have writings all over them.

Happy Holidays to you all. I know I have been MIA but I promise, after the new year, I will be back blogging. For now, I did find something I think you might be interested in. It's local and FREE!!

Happy Holidays,
Hugs and Kisses,
Lisa






Photo taken by Millard Berry, Press & Guide Newspapers.


Story by Jodi Rempala, Press & Guide Newspapers.

It began with a vision and 525 pounds of gingerbread. Executive Chef Kieran Savage at The Dearborn Inn has hand-crafted a gingerbread train and station on display in the hotel’s lobby....

Check out the rest of the article at the link below. It is free and open 24 hours.
http://www.pressandguide.com/stories/122108/loc_gingerbread001.shtml

http://www.kalmbach.com/kpc/default.aspx?c=a&id=292

Commercial from the 70's promoting the rail road hobby....

O gauge speed !
and I think Dave approves....
( click on image for a better view )

Missing?

I know I have been missing for sometime but the holidays are in full swing. Today I had a few minutes and I found this article. Now mind you it is almost a year old but I went to the website and the museum is still open. Maybe if your near Kalamazoo you can take a tour...


Seth Giem, 73, still loves to play with trains. Over the past four decades, he has created the 3,000-square foot Portage & Southern Railroad. Mark Bugnaski / Kalamazoo Gazette

Jeff Barr wrote:
PORTAGE -- "Along the shore of Lake Austin, tucked into Portage's southeastern corner, Seth Giem has created a world of his own. No cliche here. The owner of The Train Barn, a hobby shop and museum of extraordinary proportion, has spent the past 41 years forming mountains, building bridges, constructing buildings and laying track. Oh yes, laying plenty of track."

"The miniature railroad and its surrounding community has grown to more than 3,000 square feet, with approximately 2,500 feet of track -- that's almost half a mile. It has more than 250 train cars, 30 engines and more than 100 switches. The mountains consist of 10,000 pounds of plaster, there are 40 tunnels, about 250 buildings and 75 bridges -- including the 12-foot-high, 16-foot-long centerpiece of the railroad, a replica of the Royal Gorge Suspension Bridge near Colorado Springs, that took Seth Giem 350 hours to build."

To get the full story, and to find out how to get to the museum, please go to the website.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/train_man_continues_passionate.html