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| Street View, Oct 2012 |
After seeing how big the elevator was on a satellite image, I found a 3/4 view. I've seen towns with more than one old grain elevator. But I don't remember ever seeing two of them side by side.
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| Street View, Oct 2021 |
I presume that the steam train excursions were sponsored by the Steam Railroading Institute.
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| Kyle McFetters, Dec 2016 |
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| Scott Shields posted Months in the planning. Fairly significant acquisition of equipment to make it happen: lighting, stands and a generator. The help of a friend. Support from the crew and staff. Results: Success in photographing the Pere Marquette 1225 at night in front of Carland elevator on the last night excursion of the year. 17 December, 2023. |
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| Bryan Burton Photography posted Steam Railroading Institute North Pole Express lead by Pere Marquette 1225 passes the Carland Elevator. 12/23 |
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| Bryan Burton Photography posted Steam Railroading Institute Pere Marquette 1225 at the Carland Elevator leading the North Pole Express. 12/23 |
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| Jim Pearson Photography posted Steam Railroading Institute’s Pere Marquette 1225 passes the Carland Elevator at Carland, Michigan, as they run one of their last North Pole Express passenger train between Owosso and to the Village of Ashley, Michigan, for their Ashley Country Christmas, on December 16th, 2023. According to their website, Pere Marquette 1225, the largest and most impressive piece in the Steam Railroading Institute’s collection, is one of the largest operating steam locomotives in Michigan. The 1225 was built in October of 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio for the Pere Marquette Railway. It’s part of the National Register of Historic Structures and is renowned for its role in the 2004 Warner Brothers Christmas Classic, THE POLAR EXPRESS™. 1225’s blueprints were used as the prototype for the locomotive image as well as its sounds to bring the train in the animated film to life! Tech Info: DJI Mavic 3 Classic Drone, RAW, 22mm, f/2.8, 1/1250, ISO 260. |
When I checked a topo map to see which railroad allowed steam locomotives on its tracks, I was confused because segments were labeled Ann Arbor and other segments were labeled. Grand Trunk Western.
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| 1954 Midland & Detroit and 1958 Grand Rapids Quads @ 250,000 |
So I checked an Ann Arbor map and a GTW map and both use a route between Ashley and a little southeast of Durand.
The 2004 SPV Map confirms that this is a shared route. It also indicates the AA and GTW remnants in the area were owned by Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway (TSBY).
But as of Mar 2006, the route is owned by the Great Lakes Central Railway (GLC). [glcrailroad via Dennis DeBruler]
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