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| Ron Piskor posted “FLAT ROCK ROUNDHOUSE” ... this is an old drawing that was in a hardbound book a friend of my Dad’s gave me when I was 5 years old. The book was published in 1947. Bob Stefanski Orren Thomas Jr. Do you remember the track names? Looking from the turntable left to right... Orren Thomas Jr. Bob Stefanski #8 - #1. Mike Cade Very cool I work on the turn table tracks a lot. The round rail the table turns on broke and a few inches broke out and Ray Barns and I welded it back took a while. Jody Barrons shared |
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| Clare Union Railroad Depot posted THREE SISTERS HANGING OUT IN 1960s FLAT ROCK Even though the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad (DTI) owned the Ann Arbor Railroad (AA), the railroads operated separately under common management. In May 1967, DTI management transferred all ten of the Ann Arbor’s GP-35’s over to the parent DT&I. To replace those ten locomotives the DT&I assigned five new 2000 horsepower GP-38s and five old 1500 horsepower GP-7s to the Ann Arbor. Theee more GP-7s followed the next month. The AA’s 2500 horsepower turbo-charged GP-35s were assigned to the hottest of the DT&I freight trains for their speed and horsepower. The new GP-38s lower power and dynamic brakes were more suited to the AA’s slower speeds and hilly profile. In the uncredited and undated photo we see two of the AA’s GP-35 locomotives(387 & 392)along with DT&I GP-35 (357) at the Flat Rock, Michigan, Roundhouse sometime in the late 1960s. All three were built in January 1964 under separate builder’s numbers. They were nearly identical except the AA locomotives rode on “trade-in trucks” off retired and scrapped ALCO locomotives traded in to the Electro Motive Division of General Motors salvageable parts yard. The AA locomotives also had shorter fuel tanks installed in order to accommodate the longer ALCO trucks. One further difference was that AA 387 sported mounted Pyle-National Gyrolite (Red,White) above the cab windows. 392 still had black number boards with white lettering. Black number boards were then in the process of being replaced with white number boards for better visibility. Note also that the DT&I GP-35 357 lacked nose mounted headlights. It seems over the years locomotives develop personalities of their own. One wonders what those three sisters were conversing about when this photo was snapped. Some may say that they are just machines, built to haul freight… But still. Article by Robert I Warrick. Photo from author’s collection |
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| Joe Greyzck posted 1985 coming in to Flat Rock yard from the south. Kenny Cook I remember a flat car sitting there with one truck removed to be used as a ramp at the end of one track. I'm assuming for the maintenance dept. Thomas Simpson No cars in the yard anymore, like a dust bowl, been that way for yrs now, no jobs , nothing left. |
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| Craig Hensley Photography posted CN's Flat Rock terminal one of the larger yards in the area. A view from the hump tower looking South into the main bowl. Several road trains and local jobs originate and terminate here which makes for a pretty active yard. This shot was taken with permission. CN Flat Rock Terminall - Flat Rock, MI - May 2023 |
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| Craig Hensley Photography posted Yard Ops A GTW unit pulls a cut of cars forward past the hump tower at CN's Flat Rock Terminal. Photo taken with permission. CN Flat Rock Terminal - Flat Rock, MI - April 2023. [According to some comments, this is another hump yard that is now just flat switching.] |
Gary Sturm posted five photos with the comment: "The DT&I yard at Flat Rock, Michigan in 1982."
Bryan Russell: Was it a hump yard, or did it do flat switching?
Conan A Brooks: Bryan Russell Hump and still in use.
[A comment indicates it is now a CN yard.]
Martin Burk shared
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