Barry's Model Railroad

This is an accounting of my attempts at model railroads N scale and HO or OO. I find it to be a lot of fun. I concentrate my efforts on The New York Central, Ann Arbor, Pere Marquette, Chesapeake and Ohio as it relates to the Pere Marquette, Michigan Central Railroads and my own Salt Creek Railroad. I am also interested in the Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway, the Great Lakes Central Railroad, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, and BNSF. You are welcome to give me advice.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Lake State Railway

The Lake State Railway operates on former Detroit & Mackinac Railway tracks from Bay City to Alpena, and on former New York Central trackage from Bay City to just north of Gaylord. There is one small branch line from Alabaster Jct. to the quarry at Alabaster. In late 2005, Lake State leased the former CSX line from Mt. Morris to Saginaw, Bay City and Midland. They have trackage rights into McGrew Yard in Flint.
One attribute of the Lake State is their use of Alco/MLW power, including former RS-3 units. Much of the LSRC freight traffic is aggregate products such as gravel and stone, as well as potash for mixing into concrete by the Lafarge concrete plant in Alpena.

Barry's Model Railroad