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Michigan has such great weather extremes! Just 4 days prior to this picture being taken on April 24th, 2005, it was 80 degrees in Port Huron. Now its 30 degrees and snowing hard at CSX's Port Huron Yard.
The wig wag at Vernon, Michigan happily swings for a special dead head excursion. The signal was knocked over in early 2005 and has been replaced with standard flashers.
Pere Marquette Depot serves as the CSX Offices in Port Huron, Michigan. Soon this will be vacated and CSX will move all of their Yard Operations south to a new railyard due to the present location being developed as a boat landing and shorline commercial developement later this year.
CN Train 391 switches cars at GTW (CN) Tunnel Yard in Port Huron, Mi. The train has a mixture of GTW, BNSF, and CN Power. GTW 5932 is in CN Paint Scheme and is the third loco from the head end.
It's 12:24 p.m. on Jan 22, 2005 and one of 4 CN trains to pass by the house in the 3 hour of the Blizzard near M.P. 53 on the GTW Mt. Clemens Sub. This CN train is heading south from Port Huron. The air temp was at 8 degrees with 25 to 35 MPH winds. Total snowfall here was between 16 and 22...
The former Pere Marquette ferry dock sits idle and unused since Canadian National built the new St. Clair River Tunnel in 1995. Its future is uncertain for the area is to be developed into a marnina once the railroad moves out sometime within the next year. CSX will no longer occupy Port Huron...
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