Comments on: First & Liberty

By: bear

bear — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:16:21 +0000

Yeah, The Ann Arbor Railroad is a short line these days, usually running twice a day hauling mostly sand (for concrete) and auto parts. A couple of times a year it hauls corn or grain, with leakage usualy spilling on the tracks. It IS pretty cool to see it in the Spring after a rain. The tracks turn into a fuzzy green carpet! This stuff is good, I suppose, for animals who need the nourishment. most of the corn we get these days is GMO, and that is the sad part of the whole equation. But, Merry Christmas and count your blessings instead of sheep. (not to Irving Berlin)

By: anna ercoli schnitzer

anna ercoli schnitzer — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:46:26 +0000

So…what do you think? Was any (bird)seed/grain at all left in the freight car when it arrived at its final destination or did it arrive completely emptied?

By: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:10:58 +0000

*rimshot*

By: Daniel Madaj

Daniel Madaj — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:22:09 +0000

Might it not be a sign that Maize is back on track?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:16:06 +0000

They’re back? I always thought it was Hansel and Gretel, or maybe Dorthy?

By: anna ercoli schnitzer

anna ercoli schnitzer — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:27:05 +0000

I have to confess that I am somewhat disappointed to learn that the seeds were the result of spillage from a RR car—I naively thought the seeds were there because some kindly soul was feeding the birds of the Old West Side.

By: Juliew

Juliew — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:52:43 +0000

This happens a few times a year. I took a similar picture in 2009 [link] and somewhere I have a picture of what happens when they spill grain in the spring and it rains a lot right afterward. :)

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:41:59 +0000

I saw them scattered along the line at Longshore and Wright yesterday evening, too. Meant to go backt oday to take a photo. At least it’s not some newfangled de-icing strategy.