Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: chessie

The Grand Ledge, Michigan, railroad trestle from the Ledges Trail along the Grand River. Have a good year, everyone. Blessings.

The CSX (originally Pere Marquette) Michigan mainline at Mulliken, Michigan.

The former PM mainline--now the CSX line between Chicago and Detroit--through Mulliken, Michigan. Shot from Railroad Street, looking west.

June 1995: I drove downtown to check the mail after work and noticed this interesting train parked behind the Mulliken Elevator. Grabbed the camera, wasted a roll of film, went home. Joan, who'd just joined the household a few days before, was a little curious about why it took half an hour to check the mail.... Regarding that crane: It's CSX (nee L&N) 41422, built by American Crane and Equipment (they apparently now go by ACECO). Seems to me they were using this big crane for bridge repairs, but it's a distant memory at this point. All the buildings (silos) in this photo are now gone. The siding's still there, but overgrown and mostly unused.... Camera: Chinon Genesis III

"Sunday, August 13, 1939 Train on turntable ready to go in roundhouse Detroit, Mich Taken off from Ambassador Bridge" A little something for the railfans, today. In the near foreground is a bit of the Pere Marquette's enormous roundhouse, and off beyond the turntable is just a wee piece of PM's also-enormous riverfront yard. I rather like the bridge shadow on the roof and tracks. The bridge was about a decade old when this photo was taken. The roundhouse, which predated the bridge, is long gone, now. The still-large yard is just a shadow of its former self. Borucki's Lakers

As she left for work I'd told Joan I was going to photograph the old bridge that parallels the I-96 bridge across the Grand River south of Portland. Never got there. Instead I stopped at this bridge to take a few shots and just kept shooting. Portland's rail bridge was built in 1881 for one of the Pere Marquette predecessors and was in railroad use for about a century. It's now a feature of the local trail network, which runs about 7 miles along the Grand and Looking Glass Rivers. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion for March 21 .