Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: pere marquette

Sunfield's about four miles down the way from Mulliken (Michigan, in both cases). The two towns are about the same size, and both live mostly between the tracks (CSX, these days) and highway M-43. Historically both are grain elevator towns and provided services to local farmers. The biggest physical difference between the villages is that our town spills over to the north of the railroad, while in Sunfield the rails define the town's northern boundry. As this photo shows.

The Grand River rail trestle in Grand Ledge, again; the last photo from our excursion a couple weekends back. This trestle is known locally as the "High Bridge," which suggests they've never seen an actual high bridge. Nonetheless, it's a substantial crossing and an impressive structure.

The CSX (originally Pere Marquette) railroad trestle across the Grand River in Grand Ledge. I've shown you this bridge before. Among other things, it defines the boundary of GL's Fitzgerald Park. Another shot from the Ledges Trail this afternoon. Terrific light, but an ill-chosen camera setting washed out the sky. I gotta pay more attention to this stuff.

The best photo I took on our "accidental" visit to Port Huron's Desmond Landing. This tank was left behind when the Ferry Yard was abandoned. I presume it contained fuel for the switcher, but that could (of course) be all wrong....

This is the ferry slip in Port Huron, Michigan, taken from the park they've built at Desmond Landing . CSX used to have a busy yard, just south of the Black River, whose purpose was to handle rail traffic which crossed the US/Canadian border on barges. That traffic has migrated to the new St. Clair tunnel (now named for Paul Tellier ), which opened in 1995. That's Sarnia, Ontario, in the background.

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

About the time I moved here, the Soo Line abandoned its Upper Peninsula heritage, sold the track to Wisconsin Central, and started running trains on CSX's old Pere Marquette mainline between Chicago and Detroit--and on to Canada. Emotionally I didn't like the move, but it did bring Soo Line locomotives into my daily life. The occasional old Alco which showed up in those years was a bonus for my railfan tendencies. Then the Soo Line was fully absorbed by parent line Canadian Pacific, and most of the locomotives were repainted to CP's red. This photo--with Soo Line locomotives!--was captured a couple days ago. The road must be running near capacity, and pulling old locos out of mothballs.... Photo taken from Mulliken's Main Street, looking west, under far from ideal conditions. Looks kinda like a Monet in the larger size, if you can imagine Monet in Michigan and chasing trains. I confess it's a bit of a stretch.

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

"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 .