A New Box Car For My Central Michigan Railway Freight Train

I'm getting delivery of a Lake State Railway box car today that I will be using on my Central Michigan Railway layout. The Lake State Railway tracks are nearby the tracks used by the Central Michigan Railway, so it would make sense that the Central Michigan Railway freight train would be hauling Lake State Railway rolling stock. The box car road markings are LSRC 10028.

This is the locomotive I will be using to pull the Central Michigan Railway freight train.

Central Michigan Railway Locomotive #9712

I have my eye on a locomotive from Barsseurs Electric Trains in Saginaw Michigan that runs $159.95. it's a Central Michigan Railway GP40 road number #9712. I am hoping to get it for my birthday. for $75.00 down I can put it on lay-away.

Central Michigan Railway

There is a good chance I will be looking into modeling this railroad next.

Central Michigan Railway (1987-2003) the Successor is Huron and Eastern Railway runs on the former Grand Trunk Western mainline from Durand to Bay City, Michigan. Through the late 60's and early 70's Penn Central engines and cabooses where a common site in Bay City using the former Meredith Jtc. to then cross the river on the north east side of Saginaw (now owned by CSX), then proceed north. By the late 1980's railroad traffic on the GTW line was minimal and one of the two sets of tracks where removed through Bay City. The Straits Corporation then purchased the line from GTW and established the Central Michigan Railway.  The Straits Corporation purchased and sold the former Detroit & Mackinaw (now Lake State Railway) prior to it's ownership of the Central Michigan Railway. Today we find the line in constant use, servicing a wealth of customers throughout Mid-Michigan.