good reading for those interested in coal fired boilers and steam engines this is what propels the Badger since it was launched 70 yrs ago. https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/med...ory/landmarks/191-ss-badger-carferry-1952.pdf
Working rail roads and their tracks.
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Correct thanks, mighty have to see that one I was thinking of the older SS city of Milwaukee in Manistee.
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The Badger runs from Ludington. We've stayed in a hotel right next to the harbor a few times. The Spartan is sitting there for spare parts.
Badger is now considered part of U.S. 10.
Here's the Spartan from space... U.S. 10 ends on the car ramp.
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any rr news here guys?
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"A watched track (train) never arrives."
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I noticed an aerial pic from google earth of the railyard south of Midway airport in Chicago is about completely empty. Very strange.
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I looked on Google Earth to see how far paving a rails to trails went in either direction beyond the ~15 mile stretch I'm familiar with. The view showed tracks intact still in place leading out of the county. 
Could a worm-hole to another dimension (time/space-offset, etc) have passed between the satellite and the yard at the time of exposure?
Then again, can we rule out aliens, foreign interference, or fake news on that? .. at least 'til the next train does arrive?
Could a worm-hole to another dimension (time/space-offset, etc) have passed between the satellite and the yard at the time of exposure?
Then again, can we rule out aliens, foreign interference, or fake news on that? .. at least 'til the next train does arrive?
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I rode the Badger as a young kid in the late 80s. Thought it was the coolest thing ever anytime we could drive a car onto a frickin boat!
But the coal/steam powerplant really does need to be retired. Noxious emissions, and they dump the coal ash right into the lake! gross. Crazy how the Spartan is just sitting there in Ludington; so much steel.
But the coal/steam powerplant really does need to be retired. Noxious emissions, and they dump the coal ash right into the lake! gross. Crazy how the Spartan is just sitting there in Ludington; so much steel.
