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Ride behind an historic diesel locomotive built in 1926 for the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Dates: Various dates in November and December Location: 301 Bartlett St., Clinton
This ship served as USS Great Northern in 1917–1919. The ship was reacquired by the Navy from the War Department 3 August 1921 and commissioned 11 August as Great Northern (AG-9). On 19 November 1921, Great Northern ' s name was changed by Presidential order to Columbia to honor a name long famous in Navy annals
The Great Northern Railway is considered to have inspired (in broad outline, not in specific details) the Taggart Transcontinental railroad in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. [26] The song Great Northern by the Western band Riders In The Sky featured on their 2002 album Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad describes a journey along the Great Northern ...
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Depot. The Little River Railroad is a heritage railroad located in Coldwater, Michigan. The train runs to Quincy, Michigan and occasionally Hillsdale, Michigan. It is dedicated to the restoration and operation of historic railroad equipment such as steam locomotives. The railroad began operations in 1975.
Rides on Thruway buses are purchased when scheduling your train trip; for example, if you're trying to make your way from Detroit to Mackinaw City, you'd enter those cities as the departing and ...
The holiday train's tour and scheduled events will run from Nov. 21 through Dec. 20, across Canada and the U.S. Although it has never stopped for an event in Michigan, crowds have gathered to ...
The train's name was intended to be evocative of travel to the Far East and Japan, since trans-Pacific Great Northern steamships once connected with the railway's trains in Seattle. The Oriental Limited name was in use by December 1905 as a St. Paul–Seattle train; [ 2 ] the route was extended to Chicago in 1909.
The song "CTA X-mas Train", [4] describing the Holiday Train, by the Snow Angels was the winner of the Chicago Tribune's New Holiday Classics Christmas song contest in 2009. [5] It narrowly avoided being shut down by CTA president Frank Kruesi after the budget cuts of 2004. A spokesman said, "It didn't seem appropriate to devote resources to ...