The Grand Trunk in Michigan. 1990s throwback!

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See the Grand Trunk in the 1990s from its western terminus in Chicago to Battle Creek, Michigan. This clip focuses on trackage from South Bend into Battle Creek. The DVD featured locations include Blue Island, Thornton Jct, Griffith, Wellsboro, South Bend, Cassopolis, Vicksburg, Pavillion, and Battle Creek locations including Rose and Emmett Street. Get the DVD here: rfd.video/GrandTrunkPartOne
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[@roberthassan4411]

I really miss the Grand Trunk Western, my father was an engineer for the GT for many years in Chicago. It was a very sad time when they closed the Elsdon Yard back in the 80s. Long live the good track road!!

[@Railfandepot]

Yep, this is a flag we wish had not fallen! Long live the Good Track road!

[@4gauge10]

Just what happened to GTW??. I cannot find any info about this at all.

[@roberthassan4411]

@@4gauge10 thanks for the like! The Grand Trunk Western was always owned by the Canadian National railroad, in the mid 1980's they closed the Chicago area yards down, and in the mid 1990's the CN decided to close all of the U.S. affiliates including the GT, DWP, and CV railroads and merge them all under the CN North America name.

[@Railfandepot]

@@4gauge10 What @RobertHassan said. Thanks Robert!

[@fairwayrailproductions3239]

My Papa lived on a GTW Main Line 2 busy ones

[@brianwilson6403]

I'm from Lansing, so I remember the Grand Trunk well. The first time I rode passenger was from South Washington to Durand, and switched trains to the Michigan Central Station in Detroit. June of '68. Next time was Amtrak to Toronto. Used to hear the trains as they rolled through town with the bedroom window open.

[@atreyuprincipalh4043]

Wow wonderful.. Dear DeAnn we are all rail fans here.. but also we are your true fans..

[@Railfandepot]

You are MOST kind. :-) -DeAnn

[@BlueWaterRailfan]

I loved this DVD, as well as Part 2 & 3! My favorite was GT-2 because I live in Port Huron, and it was nice seeing Port Huron prior to the new tunnel being completed. I was born well after the new tunnels completion, so it was a real treat to watch.

[@amtrak3501]

Miss the sound of them fouled M3 horns

[@midwesternrail4729]

I once saw a GTW unit in 2016. In illinois.

[@Railfandepot]

You used to be able to see a lot of them near Chicago. Blue Island, etc. Thank for watching! -DeAnn

[@zachariassiefker9249]

Love the retro GTW train footage!

[@Railfandepot]

Thank you! It's the railroad I grew up with! -DeAnn

[@davem.740]

Greetings! Love the old GT on the engines. Reminds me of my uncle & cousins in Battle Creek,Mi. My uncle worked for Grand Trunk out of Battle Creek Mi as a engineer on the BC to CH to DT run. One day in the summer my uncle Ed took us for a ride in one of the engines around the BC yard. I think I was 8 yrs old. Never forgot the thrill of it. Dave

[@Railfandepot]

Dave, I envy you... a cab ride, and in the yard no less! Thanks for the memories, DeAnn

[@davem.740]

@@Railfandepot Hello and thank you for making these videos. I am from N.In and GTW tracks ran through our town. Being from Mi, you might remember Heathkit(Bh,St.JoeMi)and Lionel trains. I m showing my age I know. Great time and great memories growing up. My only regret-selling my train set. I think I would still run it if I had it. My eyes must have been wide open climbing up the ladder of the huge locomotive. Great time, great experience. Dave

[@roberthassan4411]

@@davem.740 I like your comment about taking a ride on a GT engine! My father was a long time engineer for the GTW in Chicago, some time's on the weekends when there were less 'officials' my dad called the bosses, he would sneak me to work with him when i was a kid. I thought it was the greatest thing!

[@davem.740]

@Robert Hassan Hi Robert. Thank you for your like and your story also. It is a possibility my uncle Ed knew your Dad. Back in the day, that was a boy s dream to have a Dad as an Engineer! You could do that back then. Miss the GT locomotives & cabooses-always a smile and waves from the crew!

[@roberthassan4411]

@@davem.740 yes, it was really great, he use to let me ring the bell, and blow the whistle at the grade crossings! He was looking to buy a house in Michigan in the early 1980's because the GTW employees in the Chicago area were informed of the closing of the Elsdon Yard while the GT was still operating in Michigan but he passed away of cancer a month after they closed Elsdon unfortunately.

[@donavonrobbins1908]

Growing up not far from the GTW Lansing Depot, I was able to see them run everyday out my back yard after the Diamond Reo plant burned and was torn down.

[@Railfandepot]

What a great view! When we traveled to my grandmother's house in Akron, Ohio, I could look out from her backyard and watch trains too! :-) -DeAnn

[@dannyholt105]

Hi DeAnne and crew! That was a nice bit of history. Who doesn't love the GTRR? Could have had the song "Locomotion" playing as an intro and outro to this one. RIP Little Eva. Cheers, Dan

[@Railfandepot]

Thanks!! We have more GT on our to-do list! 😀

[@Railfandepot]

Hey Danny, DeAnn here... we had to take a break, I mean really a break, our camera broke! We got a new camera. So, expect new stuff very soon!

[@fairwayrailproductions3239]

WOAH! Your home state is Michigan?!! My home state is Michigan too!

[@Railfandepot]

I'm from the Muskegon area. :-) All the way through the first years of college! Thanks for watching. -DeAnn

[@Crookedriverandeasternrr]

Nice catch of the GT. I miss seeing these fallen flags that have been absorbed by the big roads

[@Railfandepot]

Yep, and the Grand Trunk was a particular favorite of mine!!

[@Crookedriverandeasternrr]

Railfan Depot i like GT. I grew up with chessie here in Cleveland Ohio. I’m still a fan today. Thanks again for sharing this nice look at our RR history 😃

[@arimckeever4812]

I love the into the 90's video. I wish I could find some video of the GTW in Flint working the plants.

[@Railfandepot]

I don't know of any video, that we have anyway, of the GT in Flint, this one would come the closest, but I don't think it would include Flint, close though... railfandepot.com/product/grand-trunk-western-part-6/

[@gintasindreika933]

In the sixties, I rode the GT passenger service, Chicago to Port Huron, then continuing to Toronto as Canadian National. No need to show ID at the Canada border crossing. The only questons asked were: Citizen of? and "What is the purpose of your trip to Canada?"

[@Railfandepot]

Yep. I was last in Canada in the '70s. No passport needed. -Tim

[@Hobbytrem]

I am from Brazil, so I didn't have much information on the GT. In recent vídeos we can see trains running with some box cars with GT livery still living on. Its B-B locomotives ran fast and strongly! The early 90's were great for rail fans. Now everything looks so oligopolized.

[@EntertainmentWorldz]

nice video

[@EntertainmentWorldz]

super video

[@Railfandepot]

Thanks for watching! We have more on the way!! :-)

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

AWESOME!

[@Railfandepot]

Agreed!! 😀

[@bigbluemsp]

I grew up just a few miles from the Port Huron hub.

[@tommythomason6187]

Seems the road was taken with the GP38 locomotive, and I think I read somewhere that they had more of the older GP38s than GP38-2s. I always liked the paint scheme.

[@Railfandepot]

Indeed. I liked the paint - and the modern GT logo. -DeAnn

[@dknowles60]

that is because the gp 38 had no turbo

[@ryancrooks2515]

Hi

[@pqhkr2002]

Am I the only one feel old trains (90s, 80s, earlier when Bigboy, Challenger, FEFs)are faster than now days'?

[@Railfandepot]

I think longer slower trains are what railroads look for now... so, yes, you may be right!

[@SpheroJr3289]

Grand Trunk

[@dknowles60]

Now Grand Trunk was a good 2nd choice if you live in mi like i did. now if you wanted to see trains you went down to Conrail Toledo West

[@Railfandepot]

Second Choice!? Not if you lived in Muskegon like I did! :-) What was your first choice? -DeAnn

[@robertlucido3686]

You should do a video on the Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad one of their steam locomotives had been returned to service in August last year

[@Railfandepot]

Great idea! And, we are (relatively) close to Flint. I will put that on our project to-do list. Thanks!

[@cjuuljohnston]

🌹✝️💞👍

[@Hobbytrem]

Oh, don't do this to me! 💙❤️🤍