Milan, MI: NS/Ann Arbor vs. NS+CP/Wabash

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Mark Hinsdale posted

Rod Clark posted
Here is a photo I took May 29, 1981 at Milan Mi. Of Ann Arbor  GP-35 390,387  train ID OT-2  The engineer grabs the train orders  as  the train is about to cross over the N&W former Wabash diamond. The  train is heading south.

 

Charles Geletzke Jr.posted
Here is the N&W (Wabash)-Ann Arbor interlocking tower in Milan, Michigan on July 4, 1972. (C. H. Geletzke, Jr. photo)

Ned Calvin: Spent two years first trick at Milan tower the spot on the lower was a repair after an engine derailed into the tower

 

Express Horizons posted

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A classic scene that lasted into the late Eighties. The Super-Charger slams through small-town Milan, passing a tower that will soon be joining so many others that are now gone. April 24th, 1987.

Photo Credit to E. Garrett.

Tim Shanahan shared

Howie Castellucio: Milian Mi. Wabash (N&W) / Ann Arbor

Mark Hinsdale posted three photos with the comment:

"Youthful Mistakes"
Just about 42 years ago, I was quite disgusted with myself for having made three amateur mistakes photographing the very same train. For decades, the slides hid in a yellow Kodachrome box, as I did not consider them to be worthy of anyone's observation. In two of the exposures, I had waited a split second too long to push the shutter button, and in the other, I had not waited quite long enough. In those days, it was a "one shot" proposition, and if you blew it, you blew it. Such is how one learns, though, and at the ripe old age of 22, I was certainly in need of plenty of learning! But with the passage of time, the subject matter itself sometimes outweighs the imperfections of the photographer. Perhaps that might be the case with this sequence of northbound Ann Arbor Train TF-1, at Milan MI and near Pittsfield MI, in early May, 1975. Photos by Mark Hinsdale

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Unlike many towns, both of these routes still exist, but now both are owned by Norfolk Southern. Ann Arbor was the north/southish route and Wabash was the diagonal route.