I have Trainz Station's but it isn't working...
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I have Trainz Station's but it isn't working...
Today we are in Menominee MI
As a child, I'd visit Menominee once in a while (both my parents grew up there), but my memories of this place are foggy with age (I visited there around 4-8 years of age, I'm 57 now). I remember the drive up US 41, watching the tracks for a passing train (none ever happened by, unfortunately).
I'm on google maps trying to obtain the exact locations of my grandparent's house (on my father's side). As a child, I never knew the name of the street, after all, other people were doing the driving, and as a 4-year old kid, you don't pay attention to that stuff.
I could swear the house was on 10th avenue there, as I remember crossing a bridge, and just across the house was a street, down from there were tracks and a small train yard (that never had cars on the rails).
There was a diamond crossing just west of that location. I always made it a point to have my dad take me out there to say "Hi" to the huge gates they had there. They'd always be locked so that trains on the "wrong" track would have to stop, swing the gates over to the other side, blocking on-coming trains, go through, then put the gates back into their original location. Unfortuantely, I never got to see THAT happen. Would have been around 10th Avenue and 18th Street.
Looking at the map today, there's still a diamond crossing somewhere up in that area, but it's in the Marinette area, between Madison Ave and Slate Street.
Did they take out the diamond crossing that I'm remembering? I haven't been up that way in eons, but now you've perked my ears up with childhood memories.![]()
Wow.....Yeah that sure is something on how things can change like that....I am not sure if the diamond is still their or not...I have not been up that way in a while....I might have to wait till next year to get up there...Work and having a kid sure takes a toll on a lot of things now-a-days......Its cool that ya know the area...I am from Green Bay and catch the WC/CN/ELS/BNSF all the time.......I'll have to shoot some more pix of the area up there for ya....If I ever get on the train that makes it up that far :hehe: ......Thanks for sharing your memories and make sure ya keep checking back here for updated pix of this route......Take care :wave:
LOL :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: That was our meeting point for half way to Escanaba for when my cousin and I were little....My cousins dad lives up in Esky and we used to drive him to that place.....I LOVE their food :udrool: .....Funny you would bring that up :wave:...........Small world eh....Where u livin now?¿¿?
BTW, I'm originally from Neenah, just 30 miles south of Green Bay. Got my interest in trains from all those tracks all over the place due to all those Kimberly Clark papermills in the area.
You'd be surprised how much that area has changed since CaNoodle took over...
Steve
New what? Class 1 horrible rated railroad?
New what? Class 1 horrible rated railroad?
With you on that one!