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Traverse City Turn (one of three)

I was able to follow Great Lake Central’s TC Turn yesterday; I photographed it at three locales.

This first sequence was made along the former Pere Marquette on the west side of Boardman Lake in Traverse City itself. The crew had just worked Beacon Recycling to the south and are headed back to the depot where they left an empty bulkhead car from Williamsburg.

The Wanderer, No. 5.

Bicentennial Unit Comes to Town (4 of 4) Concluding a series of posts with ICG's bicentennial unit as subject...

Bicentennial Unit Comes to Town (1 of 4) Given my zeal for railroad subjects, my parents allowed me to skip school one day fifty years ago now—for the occurrence of the Illinois Central Gulf’s bicentennial unit coming through my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. We began our chase of the unit southwest of town at the Richland Creek Viaduct. These two shots above, however, were taken north of that, between the famous trestle and the small town of Solsberry, Indiana.

I should have said, this was IC's line that ran from Effingham, on the main line, to Indianapolis. It was called the "Hi-Dry" for that trestle (and one other to come). I've posted images of it before, but I'll add one here below (didn't get a great shot with the Eagle upon it).