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Intervallo: The Great Lakes Central, No Longer

Once again I will take a little break in the month-long series of posts on the Great Divide in New Mexico. Here we'll see a chase of a very short train on the Traverse City branch of the Great Lakes Central, now owned by Watco. (Heritage of the line is Pennsy/GR&I.)

In this final post of the series, our little train is now on the former Chicago & West Michigan (Pere marquette/C&O): it is crossing over the Boardman Lake/River in Traverse City proper. Another thing that has changed (beyond the railroad now belonging to Watco) in this scene is visible in this image I made here several years earlier...

Please note the austere clock tower of city hall in the distance (it still exists: a new building on Eighth Street has gone up to block the view is all). The above image was published in a journal in conjunction with an article I wrote on the history of railroads in Traverse City.

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Brady's

Great Lakes Central in Traverse City

The sun has nearly set as a Cadillac North Turn returns to Traverse City with no empties from Amerhart. The light engine has rolled down the 0.8% grade past Woodmere Avenue, off the Williamsburg District, and is now adjacent to The Filling Station, previously the Pere Marquette/Chesapeake and Ohio passenger depot.

As it continues toward Beacon Recycling on the west side of town, it runs by the depot on the passing track, not the house track, suggesting the switches were lined for a run-around movement earlier. The Grand Rapids & Indiana crossed the Chicago &West Michigan at ninety degrees here, just on the near side of Woodmere, years in the past.

Mercantile

This is a former Mercantile located on Webster Street in Traverse City, Michigan. That waxing gibbous moon is illuminated at 86.8 percent; Antares is visible a bit up and to the right.

Abode

Seen along State Street in Traverse City, Michigan.

Smoky Sky

A few shots taken an hour before sunset. This was seen at Grand Traverse Bay, West Arm (Traverse City, Michigan).

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