Re: Michigan Central to Flint?
Guess we're a little "off-track" with your original question here! I used to spend some time at FSUD back in the 60's. Sometimes rode the GTW from Pontiac to Brush St and then walked over to Fort Street. A conductor on the C&O Sportsman befriended me and always had a big manila envelope with "goodies" when I visited there. This was back when you could pretty much "wander-at-will" among the station tracks there as long as you used common sense. Before it was pulled, I rode a trip on the Sportsman from Toledo to Detroit and back with my conductor friend and rode in the vestibule at the back of the train the whole trip! By that time, the train was down to just two coaches. Little did I know that in a couple of years I'd be working for the C&O! Guess you could call it a pre-employment review trip of the territory! I'd also been visiting Carleton Tower around the same time, not knowing I would soon work there as well.
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