Junction Valley Railroad Final Summer Ride - 9/5/2016
A tribute the the JVRR on its very last day of running the summer train rides. In this video we ride the train from start to finish, with some footage and a day of fun from the valley. The JVRR family and crew asked me to put together this video to remember all their hard work keeping this train running over the years, sadly all good things must end. So sit back and enjoy one last trip on the JVRR.
I would like to thank those of the JVRR family and crew for such a great experience and customer service as well as a great friendship of which I have developed with them in the last few years. I wish them the best in their plans here forward. I would also like to thank them for asking me to do this tribute video for them.
Thank You again for your hard work and dedication, you will be missed!!
Junction Valley Railroad, Bridgeport, MI
Junction Valley Railroad Final Season - Volume 1
Junction Valley Railroad is a quarter-size operating railroad in Bridgeport, MI complete with an almost two-mile ride along with picnic and playground area in the valley. Sadly due to rising costs the railroad's final summer train rides will conclude Labor Day weekend 2016. This video is a tribute to not only the fun of the ride itself, but also to the people and family that have kept it running over the years. So sit back and enjoy a ride on the JVRR.
Thanks to the crew at JVRR I was treated with some extra footage while watching in the valley. We witness some movements and some switching, which on a normal ride don't get to witness all that much. I was also treated to a caboose ride in part of the test runs while they were building a train. Since I know many of the people at JVRR personally they took it upon themselves to treat me to this, a shout out to them for allowing me this opportunity! Once done in the valley we then make another full trip around to test out the newly built train for tomorrows run.
Special thanks to the JVRR team for allowing me to capture this rare footage. Taken on July 15, 2016.
Junction Valley Railroad, 2 of 2
Continuing our trip on the largest quarter-size railroad in the world, located at Bridgeport, MI just a few miles south of Saginaw. Well worth the visit if you are ever in the neighborhood. In fact, its worth going out of the way for if you like this sort of thing.
RAILROAD FOR SALE: Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad - Fairview, Michigan
This Michigan Tourist attraction/ Tradition is now for sale to the right individual or group. For more information on the listing phone (989) 257-3603. You may order the Schraeders Railroad mail order catalog with the listing of the AUSABLE VALLEY RAILROAD featured inside by phoning (800) 842-4828. This number is for ordering and obtaining a copy of the catalog ONLY. You will not receive any information on the listing until you receive the catalog or call (989) 257-3603...All Aboard!
Day at the Michigan Central Railroad
Footage of the Michigan Central Railroad in Metamora, MI during the Summer Card Order Opps Session on July 20, 2013.
LSRC Train Bridgeport, Michigan September 7th, 2014
Lake State Railway Company train after crossing the Cass River in downtown Bridgeport. Video taken from Lyle Park.
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4th of July Holiday at Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad
Enjoy this clip of the steam engine working through the scenic track at Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad
Families visit the Michigan AuSable Valley Miniature Railroad, Fairview, Michigan
A relaxing fourth of July 2011 weekend is enjoyed by families from throughout the state at the Michigan AuSable Valley Miniature Railroad 6 miles south of the Michigan Magazine Museum. This day at the RR families were treated to the appearance of Cowboy heros of the wold west...The Lone Ranger, Rooster Cogburn, Lash Larue and Matt Dillion.
Hail storm May 13th Saginaw Michigan
Hail Storm.
New haven RS1
Went to the DRM today!
The rs1 was running with a reversed train due to metro north working on the Danbury branch and due to safety we had to enter at the other end of the Museum. ENJOY!
NEXT: The story of the AuSable Valley Miniature Railroad Airs Aug 2nd and 3rd
Join us as we visit the Schraeder family as they tell us the story of how they created and continued a northern Michigan family tourist hot spot...The Michigan AuSable Valley Miniature Railroad of Fairview Michigan. Then we review the book LADIES OF THE LIGHTS. An amazing account of the female great lakes lighthouse keepers. Then Andy Head Hard Hat Smith takes us on another geocaching adventure with urban hunting!
Layout Op Session 11/19/2013 - The DCC Chapter Begins!
Second part of title says all! For as long as I have had HO scale trains I have always operated them using analog DC Cab Control, and at one point during this I used to say that I was happy with that system. And not that Cab Control is a bad thing, it worked very well for awhile. But in recent months, even after I dismissed the idea of DCC for some time, I decided to open up my mind a bit, and started researching DCC operations. Months later I bought a starter set. Going with the Digitrax Zephyr System I can still employ my DC throttles as Jump Throttles that wire into the Command Station. So far I have 4 operating DCC Locomotives.
Running the layout today is 2 freights, a manifest and a coal train. The manifest train is powered by CSX 579 and 5575, both are analog locos with no decoder in them. The coal train is lead by Conrail 5068 and 5089, two of which have decoders in them. I set up the Conrail locos on the Local Throttle. 5068 is the address used (hence the loco number) and 5089 is MUed or in consist with 5068 on the local throttle. The CSX power is setup on Jump 1 throttle, and addressed to 00, this address allows an analog loco to run on DCC powered track, as long as it is kept moving. Short stops are ok, but not to be left on powered track for long periods. Since the DCC power is an AC signal the DC motors tend to heat up more rapidly when AC is applied to them. With both trains setup on independent throttles, just like with cab control I can control them independently, only difference is no need to change track blocks. As witnessed in this video I can run 2 trains in the same direction and independently control their speeds without having to change blocks, thus keeping them following each other at a safe distance all the time.
Also demonstrated is the operation of the track detectors for the signal system. Since DCC is always live to the track, any load across the rails will be detected even when stopped. With the DC system the track detectors were setup to detect track polarity for direction control of the signals. Since DCC doesn't have a direction to it, this will have to be controlled manually, thus Dispatching the signals myself.
Since most of my equipment is still DC, and being that others who run my layout with me have all DC equipment, provisions are being made for a DC/DCC section in the yard. This way DC locos can switch without having to worry about constant power, and move to an isolated section of track when a DCC mainline train comes into the yard to work. When the DC locos in the yard want to come out on the main to work, they will be setup on address 00.
CITX 3095 Leading Z145-15 @ Bridgeport, MI - 2/15/2014
Running as Z145-15, CITX 3095 leads LSRC 5921, 6301, and CITX 3074 southbound through Bridgeport, MI with grain loads for CSX at McGrew Yard in Flint, MI. LSRC 6301 is Lake State Railway's newest paint scheme as well as the first of recently purchased SD40-2's to be painted in the new colors.
Dashcam Bridgeport Michigan
dash cam view Bridgeport Michigan
BP GROWING UP IN BRIDGEPORT, MICHIGAN: MOMENT MEMORIES 1960S
A few memories from when I was a kid, like peeing on an electric fence which I recommend you not try!!!!!
Halloween cemetery Roethke Park 2011
Haunted train ride, Roethke Park, Saginaw, Mi. 2011
Roethke park train ride
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Bridgeport Marching Band 1984-85 (2), Bridgeport, Michigan
History of Bridgeport, Connecticut / History of towns in United States
Country: United States
State: Connecticut
County: Fairfield
City: Bridgeport
Population (2010):
• City 144,229
• Estimate (2013): 147,216
• Rank US: 172nd
• Density 8,720.9/sq mi (3,354/km2)
• Urban 923,311 (US: 48th)
• Metro 939,904 (US: 57th)
The first documented English settlement within the present city limits of Bridgeport took place in 1644, centered at Black Rock Harbor along North Avenue and between Park and Briarwood Avenues. The place was called Pequonnock (Quiripi for Cleared Land), after a band of the Paugussett, a Native American people who then occupied this area. One of their sacred sites was Golden Hill, which overlooked the harbor and was the location of natural springs and their planting fields. (It has since been blasted through for an expressway.) The Golden Hill Indians were granted a reservation here by the Colony of Connecticut in 1639 that survived until 1802. (It exists today in adjoining Trumbull.)
Bridgeport's early years were marked by residents' reliance on fishing and farming, not altogether different from the economy of the Native Americans, who had cultivated corn, beans, and squash and fished and gathered shellfish from both the river and sound. A village called Newfield began to coalesce around the corner of State and Water Streets in the 1760s. The area officially became known as Stratfield in 1695 or 1701 due to its location between the already existing towns of Stratford and Fairfield. During the American Revolution, Newfield Harbor was a center of privateering.
By the time of the State of Connecticut's ratification of the American constitution in 1781, many of the local farmers held shares in vessels trading at Newfield Harbor or had begun trading in their own name. Newfield initially expanded around the coasting trade with Boston, New York, and Baltimore and the international trade with the West Indies. The commercial activity of the village was clustered around the wharves on the west bank of the Pequonnock, while the churches were erected inland on Broad Street. In 1800, the village became the Borough of Bridgeport, the first so incorporated in the state. It was named for the Newfield or Lottery Bridge across the Pequonnock, connecting the wharves on its east and west banks. Bridgeport Bank was established in 1806. In 1821, the township of Bridgeport became independent of Stratford.
The West India trade died down around 1840, but by that time the Bridgeport Steamship Company (1824) and Bridgeport Whaling Company (1833) had been incorporated and the Housatonic Railroad chartered (1836). The HRRC ran upstate along the Housatonic Valley, connecting with Massachusetts's Berkshire Railroad at the state line. Bridgeport was chartered as Connecticut's fifth city in 1836 in order to enable the town council to secure funding (ultimately $150,000) to provide to the HRRC and ensure that it would terminate in Bridgeport. The Naugatuck Railroad—connecting Bridgeport to Waterbury and Winsted along the Naugatuck—was chartered in 1845 and began operation four years later. The same year, the New York and New Haven Railroad began operation, connecting Bridgeport to New York and the other towns along the north shore of the Long Island Sound.
Now a major junction for western Connecticut, the city rapidly industrialized. Following the Civil War, it held several iron foundries and factories manufacturing firearms, metallic cartridges, horse harnesses, locks, and blinds. Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machines were exported throughout the world. Bridgeport annexed the West End and the village of Black Rock and its busy harbor in 1870. In 1875, P.T. Barnum was elected mayor of the town, which afterwards served as the winter headquarters of Barnum and Bailey's Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
From 1870 to 1910, Bridgeport became the major industrial center of Connecticut and its population rose from around 25,000 to over 100,000, including thousands of Irish, Slovaks, Hungarians, Germans, English, and Italian immigrants. A Singer factory joined Wheeler & Wilson in producing sewing machines and the Locomobile Company of America was a prominent early automobile manufacturer, producing a prototype of the Stanley Steamer and various luxury cars. The town was the center of America's corset production, responsible for almost 20% of the national total, and became the headquarters of Remington Arms following its 1912 merger with the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Around the time of the First World War, Bridgeport was also producing steam-fitting and heating apparatuses, brass goods, phonographs, typewriters, milling machines, brassieres, and saddles.
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Mixed freight Passenger Service 2018
It was a cold November morning and I don't know why but I felt there was something different about this train from the sound of it's horn. I set up the tripod and ran out in my sock feet and I was not disappointed as at the end of the freight were two passenger cars.
Passenger cars are easier to track down and I found out they were rented for Lake State Railway’s Santa Train
The rail cars, ex-Pennsylvania Railroad buffet-diner Warrior’s Rest and dome-sleeper car Stampede Pass were on lease from Chicago based Paxrail