I have some real "gems" of photos of trains coming thru Flushing....when I first moved to there in Jan of 1969, the GTW Saginaw sub was a lonely subdivision. The GTW only ran one train a day, 6 days a week to Saginaw/Bay City, and those trains rarely consisted of more than 25 cars. The northbound train normally would go thru Flushing around 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., and return around 6 p.m. at night. Power was mostly GP-9's, sometimes the former passenger GP-18's that had the torpedo tube's on the top. Different variations of color scheme's roamed thu town, including a few of the old olive green/cream units before the new Burdakin Blue/Orange unites started coming by. The best one of all was the GP-38 bicentennial unit in 1976. It was lead power on occasion. After the 1976 take over of Penn Central trackage around the tri cities area, train frequencies picked up quite a bit. GTW was sending up to 4 trains north and return, some even running thru the nighttime hours. Some of these trains was moving Michigan Northern RR cars south for a couple of years before they quit around '82. I seen some trains with over 100 cars, which was exciting to see after so many years of 15-30 car trains. The coal trains came to Saginaw sub in late 1976, and Penn Central/Lehigh Valley/Reading painted locomotives were a common sight. The coal trains were usually 102 cars long, plus caboose. After the coal train derailed into the Cass River on Good Friday morning in 1977, GTW rebuilt the entire sub with welded rail, and 6 axle power became common, even on the regular freight trains. My favorite was the GTW SD-40 #5929. It ran lead unit first, many times. When GTW was in negotiations to take over DT&I, some of their power ran thru Flushing also. I even seen a Milwaukee Road unit once before I moved in 1980. There was also for a while the "Oil Train"" that originated in Sarnia, and ended up at Consumers Power in Essexville. They usually had CN SD-40's. One of my favorite places to take photo's was at the south end of the depot parking lot, as the southbounds were coming into town. That gentle curve just before Main street made for a great photos. I've several of them over the years. One other note...up until around 1972 or 73, GTW actually had a small 3 track yard just south of Mt. Morris road at Brent Creek. There was actually a little bit of customer activity there, an oil company, and another transport company actually off loaded tankers and box cars there. I was told that this little yard was once part of the original yard used for a large brick factory that existed there when the line was first completed in the 1880's. Legend has it that the bricks manufactured there was made from the clay dredged from along the bottom of the Flint river from Main Street to Coldwater road, where a short spur came off the mainline due east to a loading site between Seymour road and the river. This clay was then sent by rail to Brent Creek, where again, legend has it that the still existing clay bricks lining Saginaw Street in downtown Flint were made there. I lived in Summerset subdivision on Autumn dr. during my long stay in Flushing, so hearing the horns from approaching trains from either direction into Flushing usually gave me enough time to drive up to the depot, and snap pictures. Memories I cherish to this day.