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Station: Gibson Street, MI |
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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum |
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------------------ Other Kalamazoo sites
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Comments from Greg Peet
(2003): The block station Gibson is named
after nearby Gibson Street. Yes, there was a diamond there where the GR&I
crossed the LS&MS. You can see the "line-up" if you look north from the
Upjohn secondary, as it is called now. Also the GTW more or less paralled
Gibson Street and crossed the LS&MS line at that same general location. I
think all the track re-alignment was done at the same time, around 1980 or
so. Someone else can be more specific. As there were no switches there in years past, only signals needed to be controlled, but I don't know if that was done by BO or Tower #2 (the Pennsy tower). Both switches at that location now are hand thrown, controlled by BO only as the tower operator drives his own vehicle over to that location and hand throws the switch himself or herself ahead of a train to or from Grand Rapids. |
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