Working rail roads and their tracks.

[BravoXray]

Is that the same as the heat-and-eat side dishes you can get at the supermarket? Always wondered who he was, didn't know it was a restaurant. The mac & cheese is very good!

Yep, same brand.

 

[ArlyA]

The Rock Cut
Deep in the forests of the Huron Mountains in the northwest Upper Peninsula is a huge gash in the solid granite. It was created in the 1890s to run the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad from Champion to an ore dock near Skanee. A group of investors in the Detroit area thought they could make a fortune on hauling iron ore by train from a mine near champion. They spent about two million dollars and employed 1500 men building a railroad and ore dock. By the time it was completed the mine had stopped producing iron ore and the railroad was no longer needed. Shortly after the railroad was sold for about $100,000 and the tracks were removed and used downstate.
The Huron Bay Peshekee Grade Road from US-41 will take you near the famed rock cut. The road follows along the Peshekee River and constructed using part of the old railroad grade. It is not a trip for the faint of heart. It is about 20 miles of rough road back into the wilderness. Although it was a long and rough trip back to the rock cut, it was one of the most impressive things I have seen in Michigan. I can only imagine what kind of hell the men endured to create it only to never be used.

 

[oldtimer 66]

Old D&RG roundhouse site in Utah.

Now:

39°50'57.4"N 111°00'28.5"W · 39.849278, -111.007917

www.google.com

1885
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Bruce

Note the wooden push bar extending on the right hand side of the turn table, on an angle. This was used to push the turntable around. It took several people to move the locomotive around. Now they could have had a mule and or horse and pulled the locomotive around using that timber.

I was in Mexico in the early 90's and at one of the shops they had this same setup but using a telephone pole tied to the turn table. They had a loco on the turntable were pushing it around by hand. If I remember correctly there were 4/5 people doing the pushing eh!

 

[Runner]

Note the wooden push bar extending on the right hand side of the turn table, on an angle. This was used to push the turntable around. It took several people to move the locomotive around.

Hence the nickname "armstrong turntable".

 

[MossRoad]

The Rock Cut
Deep in the forests of the Huron Mountains in the northwest Upper Peninsula is a huge gash in the solid granite. It was created in the 1890s to run the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad from Champion to an ore dock near Skanee. A group of investors in the Detroit area thought they could make a fortune on hauling iron ore by train from a mine near champion. They spent about two million dollars and employed 1500 men building a railroad and ore dock. By the time it was completed the mine had stopped producing iron ore and the railroad was no longer needed. Shortly after the railroad was sold for about $100,000 and the tracks were removed and used downstate.
The Huron Bay Peshekee Grade Road from US-41 will take you near the famed rock cut. The road follows along the Peshekee River and constructed using part of the old railroad grade. It is not a trip for the faint of heart. It is about 20 miles of rough road back into the wilderness. Although it was a long and rough trip back to the rock cut, it was one of the most impressive things I have seen in Michigan. I can only imagine what kind of hell the men endured to create it only to never be used.View attachment 3938463View attachment 3938462

There's a similar cut in Wabash, IN called The Big Four Cut. No one thinks of ocean when they think north central Indiana, but that cut is through a marine reef from millions of years ago.

 

[JRH02]

There's a similar cut in Wabash, IN called The Big Four Cut. No one thinks of ocean when they think north central Indiana, but that cut is through a marine reef from millions of years ago.

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When I lived in the Nebraska Sandhills I made a drive through crossing on Pine Creek (how many pine creeks are there?) at no small effort. It filled back in annually. So I just quit.

Teasing, teasing. I would've loved to have a case or two of dynamite but that stuff is so hard to get. And certain alphabet agencies get really mad at you if you make your own.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[caver]

When I lived in the Nebraska Sandhills..................

I hope I haven't posted this before. This was last years road trip. South of Crawford NE is the old Belmont tunnel. Belmont Tunnel (Nebraska) - Wikipedia

 

[JRH02]

I hope I haven't posted this before. This was last years road trip. South of Crawford NR is the old Belmont tunnel. Belmont Tunnel (Nebraska) - Wikipedia

I always wanted to check that out but was never in that area with time on my hands.