rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

At the turn of the last century, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad was created by merging the Detroit & Lima Northern with the Ohio Southern. Some years later, Henry Ford purchased the DT&I because it provided a good connection between his factories and the East-West railroads that went to the rest of the county. When Henry got tired of federal oversight, he sold the DT&I, but kept locomotive #7, which had been his favorite locomotive and was used to pull his private train - then he gave the locomotive to Greenfield Village when he created that living history museum.

Last weekend we visited the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, in Dearborn Michigan. In recent years, they had refurbished #7, and now it was working on the 'Weiser Railroad', which runs around the village and is part of the transportation system for the village. #7 was the locomotive each time I rode.
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This typical RR scene was available for about five seconds each time around. I had to ride around four times on Saturday before I got the timing right on it.


Sunday morning was drippy and drearing. I began my visit by riding the train from the "Firestone" station at the main entrance to the "Railroad Junction" section at the back of the village.


I could see Detroit & Macinac #8 at the maintenance facility hidden away in a corner between "Railroad Junction" and the "Firestone Farm". I'm not sure what they plan to do with it - maybe they haven't figured it out either.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Nice set.

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Very nice set.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

Enjoyed viewing the series!!
Pat

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

GrayGhost

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
73
GG

Mister H Loc: Michigan

We are members and love visiting. I always have to visit the roundhouse (can never see that enough) and check on projects. Nice set and glad you had a chance to visit.