Conrail 5641, operating as the Vermontville Turn, slowly travels over the trestle on the CK&S branch in Hastings.  The Turn operated on the former Michigan Central Grand Rapids Branch (Jackson-Grand Rapids) out of Grand Rapids and turned at Vermontville, which is where the line ended after 1976.  The CK&S branch, which crossed the Grand Rapids Branch at Hastings, was pulled up in 1937, but a stub of it remained to serve local industry.  The remainder of the Grand Rapids branch was removed in 1983.  This photo was taken in 1976.

[Doug Leffler] 

Hastings, MI

Conrail | CK&S