OK, you are happy you caught one in Durand. Ha Ha Ha, that's funny. I'm always the opposite. In fact most of the time I can't get thru Durand without being stopped by one. Well, no, I take that back, but if I don't get stopped by one, I see one or at least I hear one. I have never seen a town with so many train tracks going thru it from everywhichway. I'm glad you got to see the depot. It's pretty. This is probably going to seem lame after seeing the depot in Durand, but in the next town exactly 4.5 miles(by train track) South East, in the little teeny tiny town of Gaines, they have turned their old depot into a library. And it's quite cute, considering the size and all. They have a giant Gazebo there on the old depot property that's almost as big as the depot. The peculiar thing about Gaines is the train tracks go diagonally, from North West to South East or opposite. And since they were there first, the whole town was built around them. So the roads go diagonally! I mean you get there driving due East or West or North or South, but once you get into town, you can't go East, West, North or South because the town was laid out using the tracks as the guide. When I first saw it about 43years ago, I was so confused I just couldn't believe it. And, I almost plumb forgot: After I watched your video of the tunnel in Port Huron Friday late I went outside just to see if I could see any Northern Lights, it was too cloudy. So, being the hillbilly I am, I have an old chair on my front porch and I sat down in it a few minutes waiting for my dogs to sniff around and I started hearing the low pitch rumble of train engines. It was a very still night and I could hear the low pitched rumble the engines make while a train was traveling South toward Milford. I think I first head that sound when they were about 4 miles North of M-59. I sat there until the horns blew for about 3 or maybe 4 crossings and then went into the house to google the distance. I figure I could hear those engines for about 6 miles. By the time it got to M-59 it was about 4-1/2 miles away and I could hear the horns very clearly. That is amazing. No wonder when I go to my little house in Bancroft I can always hear a train. I had no idea I could hear them from so far. And you know all about the Steam Railroading institute in Owosso, I have seen the 1225 a few times just driving by. I think it lives right there all the time. OK Nancy, Mighty Fine Business! I hope you enjoyed your trip, and Thank You for all the great shots & I trust you've made it back home safe and sound. ben/ michigan, just a troll living under the bridge.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

One of the most pleasing "activities" a person can do is to sit on the porch a spell Ben! I love sitting there on my rocker-lol- and enjoying the sounds and smells of the woods and hoping for a glimpse of some critter or other! I love watching the crazy chickens racing around their huge enclosure! Two times I have heard the local CN from a long distance-once from 15 miles and the other time and the one I consider epic was in Tama Siding. The CN had gone by and I lingered waiting for the elusive wolf to make an appearance, I could hear the train all the way to Nestoria -I counted the crossings so I know exactly where they were at the sound of the horn! Both times I was far from traffic and no sounds except for the quiet and the train horn! When I lived in Middle River Maryland (9th grade) we heard train horns day and night-being so close to Washington D.C. and I think that was my first awakening to the lure of the train horn!

Kind of like being at the Holy Grail of Michigan railroad crossroads. In the opening scene it looks like some good views of the yard with signals I'm glad you caught the big freight of the day taking the sneaky way around you. That was nice watching that freight at speed. With that cute red building on the side

Looks like a great railfan site. Magnificent depot. Excellent mainline action, liked it much. Thanks Nancy.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Lucky locals!

The Durand Train was Train 508, a daily Flint to Moterm Yard (in Ferndale, where the containers are left) to Flat Rock yard. I also often stops in Pontiac Yard. It was on the rarely used (except for it and its counterpart daily Train 507) Flint Wye at the east side of the station as these are the only Holly Sub trains that reverse direction at Durand to go to Flint now. Their main duty is to take containers that arrived from Canada from the east (that were dropped off at Flint from the container trains to Chicago) to Moterm and vice versa. The GTW GP38-2 in the train was probably going to Durand to be assigned to work the yard there. I remember seeing it go by my house south of Pontiac on this train that day.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

THank you for the info! It makes the catch so much more special to know these important facts!

My favorite place

Hello Nancy . Very cool catch 👍🏻 ya lots of action in Durand.😎👍🏻 Robin out.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Robin!

Lovely to see Durand up close and not through live cam on Railstream! SO totally different perspective of Durand! Thanks...

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I would have loved to spend the whole day but our railfanning was accomplished in between family visits! I look forward to going back and getting the coal tower closer!

Love the new CN boxcars with no graffiti - yet

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Shiny new-I also was impressed!

Great 2nd vacation video Nancy! Long trains and trains at speed … doesn’t get much better than that.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed the LP train experience!

Amazing mixd manifest on that very long train! Good catch, Nancy. Love that depot, too.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

It's a beauty!

YES IT WAS A GT LOCO 😮😮😮😮

Nancy, love the Vlogs on your channel. Thanks for sharing some history and showing historical places. The Depot is so very reminiscent of the days gone by. Really neat you caught a Grand Trunk "GT" locomotive. Was one of the best lines. - Gayle

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Gayle! I love the old Depots and thank you for the Vlog comment I love sharing History and we made a stop in Graylin g and Vasser also-they probably will be my next video!!

CN runs very long freight trains, thanks Nancy for the video

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Hi Larry!

Great catch Nancy!! GT engine and a Conrail boxcar. Very cool 👍

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

THanks Kevin!

Awesome video Nancy and that train long one beautiful country too again awesome video and Nancy Adventures 🚂🚂👍😃😎♥️

A nice video of a famous place in Michigan railroad history. Glad you made it out to Durand. That CN freight had a suprise, GTW GP38 #5831 which was exciting to see. Cool scene in Imlay City too. Well done Nancy and a good trip.👍🏻

Seeing the Grand Trunk unit was WOW. the new hopper cars were a great sight but nothing compared to the Boston and Maine hopper car. you did great video work and Thank You Nancy.

Itwas great to see the Grand Trunk unit, good catch.

Great video Nancy. This must be somewhat of a shock to you seeing these trains flying by compared to the casual pace in L'Anse. Nice catch on that G.T.W. loco.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

I knew they were long but seeing them in person is a totally different thing!!

Kinda nice to get away from the "same-old-same-old" of L'Anse ehhhhhh? Longer trains, different cars, etc!

Durand is where I was born n raised, home of the railroaders n yes they have very long trains.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great place to grow up!

Yes it was.

Very cool Hundreds of tons of Thunder pounding through the rain of the day. Looks like ole Fred's was asleep 😴😊

Glad to see you made it to Durand. You need to get there when you have more time 3 different rail companies use the yard there. Some days it takes a lot just to get thought town lol. I grew up in Holly that was the sub the train got on to use to have a lot of train action back when I lived there not sure anymore. Grand Trunk and B&O,C&O On two different subs. Anyway Great video Nancy

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Robert! I definitely have to go back and spend a day!

Nice video of Canadian National trains in Durand and Imlay City, Michigan, Nancy. I thought the train that you captured in Durand, Michigan was not going to end. The train just kept coming past your camera.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

I thought it would never end!

You got there at 5:00 pm. I left about 4:00 pm, so I just missed you. My wife and I went west to visit relatives the last two weeks and we were able to stop at the the Union Pacific Bailey Yard in North Platte Nebraska. The train you caught in Durand was moving around the High Y. I think you may have been too late for depot museum. Upstairs the Grand Trunk Historical Society and the Ann Arbor Historical Society each have rooms upstairs. They leave about 4:00 pm, so you just missed them too. Maybe next trip.

As a rule, many trains are around 150-200 cars. Some less, and some more. You might see two trains into one. That is, locomotives in front, and then another set(DPU) in the middle of the train. That would be a very long train. In the train you captured, we get to see Intermodal cars, then a mixed freight. A rare catch. Z trains are exclusively Intermodal cars. These make up much of what we see on the main lines. You caught a great train. I had to laugh, when you made a remark, that this is a long train. Watching trains is interesting, and kind be a little boring. But, you'll never know what you'll see. Surprises happen all the time. As a side note, the rails on most of the tracks now, are twice the height of what we see in your videos from what we see you film. Track requirements vary on many factors. So does the speed of the trains. Passenger trains, as a rule, run at faster speeds, than freight trains. Thanks for the videos. It's nice to see a variety of videos, that you show us. That train station, was beautiful!

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

A beautiful location I will definitely come back to!!!!

Nice video, I was looking and found the local shortline that passes through northwestern ohio, may use this railyard, and pick up freight and comes south with it. The indiana and ohio railroad. Thanks for sharing the video and your efforts in doing so, nancy. Look forward to seeing your next installment of trackside.

Very nice I’m surprised the coal tower is that good of shape and the depot wow

Hi nancy i make it 107 cars. caroline

I'd like to think the plural of caboose is cabeese. 🤣

Hi Miss Nancy Was that a Grand Trunk RR Loco I think I saw? That was Cool stuff. Grand Trunk and SOO Line, CN were always sorta cool to me. Love the flange screeches 😊 Very very much cool 😎 Burn one for me... 😷🚕🛣️👍😊🌞

@Marrio49

2 ай бұрын

I noticed that GT engine also. Nice find.

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

I will!

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

@@Marrio49 I caught a couple more unique engines I will post in my next video!

@Marrio49

2 ай бұрын

More recently I used to frequent Danville Junction in Auburn Maine at the GT and MEC crossing. Lots of activity made for great videos.

imlay city train 150 cars. caroline

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

20 times a day trains go through Imlay City and we heard the horn many times when visiting with my grandkids who live close to Lapeer!

@user-cn4rg2bs4p

2 ай бұрын

like us in our town. We have 2 double tracks meeting just north of the town. We have passenger and freight on both. Freight are alot smaller than yours. caroline

the other days train was 150 cars. caroline

@nancyhaun

2 ай бұрын

THanks Caroline!

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