When the trains are 1:8 full size. Thanks for watching

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I noticed the many Fallen Flags when uploading. Thanks for watching

Five to six miles per hour is a comfortable speed. Deer Flys can still get you. Cover up or good bug spray is needed.

I thought that at first also but they were on the wrong track in the first clip. Not sure where they came from. The open doors are the wrong side for Columbian.

​​@@steamloggerthe dock at PCA is on the East/South side of the spur. However, you're right that they came off #2 track... Maybe Cold Storage or Elston Richards?

With L301 switching here they can do it on their way back to Grand Rapids. When this was filmed this was switched by a crew that worked around Wyoming yard. The Cannonball was still running to Muskegon.

Thanks. There are many more to come.

It is a custom system I built myself. Using Arduino Microcontrollers and NRF24L01 radio modules.

There is a Wisconsin Central SDL39 that runs at White Creek also.

This local regularly runs over 100 miles out and back. They keep the wheels shining.

We tried to shrink the people, but it hasn't been going well.

Then perhaps larger trains? These would be perfect for early teens to ride on. BTW: I am old enough to barely remember some steam engines pulling freight on the Grand Trunk. This was1955-57.All passenger trains were being pulled by Diesels since 1953.

@@tedlawrence4189 Larger trains get more expensive and harder to transport. The train on the left came from Iowa. The one on the right came from Illinois.

Thanks. Much more from this era to come.

Looking forward to it, I’m putting some GR stuff out there now too

I just subscribed to your channel. I wasn't doing much video around 2010.

By looking at the road names, I think it was Chicago bound.

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They are lucky they had a café car. What were the odds it was open😅

The AmCafe doesn't fit with the rest of the cars. I am trying to keep my videos interesting.

​@wmrg1057 it has been a while since I rode. It is always hit or miss on the onboard services.

Yes that is the now removed Plaster Creek tower and a clerk recording the interchange cars from the Conraul Hugart yard. At the time the video was taken Plaster Creek tower controlled movements in and out of the yard on both ends as well as trackage on the West Side of Grand Rapids from Fuller Junction to Pleaseant Street. This is now controlled from Jacksonville Florida.

We had plenty in Michigan after the merger. I wonder where all the Chessie power went.

@@steamlogger that’s a good question! I’m not too sure where all the Jess units want to! It would sure be nice to see some of those old paint scheme again nowadays!

You are correct East of Zeeland before the siding was shortened. Interesting about the Burro capacity.

Thanks. I have been uploading many clips starting from 1989 when I got my first camcorder.

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I might have been a little late for work. ;)

I remember driving over the bridge. It was always look carefully for opposing traffic.

Thanks. I was trying to remember who those would have been for.

The Heinz plant used to ship a lot of product out by rail. The cars must have been a high priority in order for the Holland local to take them to Grand Rapids.

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It is a fun place to run a train.

I remember 1177, 1236 and 1238. I had only been taking video for about six months and wish some shots were different 😮

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And much work to maintain

It is amazing how many adjustments can be made.

Or at dawn. The Pere Marquette departs Grand Rapids at 6:00 AM.

It does a good job of sweeping the ballast.

I hope you have a lot of money.

Tom Briggs and Mike Perigo of Kalamazoo Mi. Both now sadly RIP.

It has been at the White Creek Railroad for a long time. It doesn't get uot much. Richard found it, parked in the back of the enginehouse, and got it working again.

When they only run five days a week we get some big trains on the day after an off day.

I would love to catch it in action sometime. They cross the street to move cars around the scrapyard.

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If we had more trains. Right now there is only about six trains a day here.

There was a red vehicle stopped on the track when the train was returning to the yard. The engineer was letting them know he didn't intend to stop.

@@steamlogger I hear dat!

Yes most of the cars were clean back then. Thanks for watching

You noticed. Thanks for watching

@@steamlogger My pleasure!

The bridge is 40 feet long. I have a friend who built one that is 52 feet just to be longer.

I was running my Gradar 75 that looks like a 1970s Athern Hustler locomotive.

There are many squirrels and chipmunks along the tracks. Thanks for watching

Great suggestion. I would love to catch them switching Coastal Container.

Still in SBD paint after 37 years.

Thank you very much!

When the rail is laid a 1/16 inch gap is left at the joints. The bolts holding the track together have nylock nuts and are just snug.

They probably used some rail remover from the mainline. It cuts down on required maintenance with the scrap loads on this line.

Notice the conductor on the caboose at the end looking at his train on the inside of the curve.

Or making sure they didn't hit the car stopped on the track. Lol