Q re: Standish, MI depot Flimsies and Boyne City RR

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:51 am

From the Bay City Times piece:

Quote:

Adding rail museum components, however, is being covered by private money. The three historic cars, for example, are a donation from the Lake State Railway, which bought the Detroit & Mackinac Railway in the early 1990s. The twin cars already trucked to the depot are 1950s-era English passenger trains, made by British Railways, Hillman said.

The cars eventually hauled passengers in northern Michigan for the Boyne City Railroad, until the late 1970s. That's when the Detroit Mackinac's parent company, Straits Corp. of Monitor Township, bought the cars.

Quick query: I know these cars came from the Boyne City RR operation, which if I recall right had a British tank locomotive hauling these two cariages (and maybe more) in the early-to-mid-1970s.

Can someone refresh my foggy memory on just how this British rolling stock ended up in Michigan, and what happened to the steamer (my memory says 0-6-0T)? I do not think the carriages were ex-Flying Scotsman tour train, but shipped in separately.

Also, just for the record, the Flimsies link is dead; the following will get you to the article in the Bay City Times:

http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1167840938281060.xml&coll=4

(And man, I'm looking at my 1967 Steam Passenger Service Directory--nothing on the British stuff, but just what is that monstrosity behind 0-4-0T #11 on the Cadillac & Lake City Railway? It looks like a very bad Hollywood attempt at fabricating the Lincoln funeral Pullman from a boxcar body!)

caboose9 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:27 pm

Hi,

Does anyone know the style and number of this caboose?

Thanks, Roger

"Historic caboose on way to Standish, MI, depot. A retired Detroit & Mackinac Railway caboose rolls into Standish, a donation from the Lake State Railway, which bought the Detroit & Mackinac Railway in the early 1990s."

Alan Maples · **Posted:** Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:57 pm

Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:

(And man, I'm looking at my 1967 Steam Passenger Service Directory--nothing on the British stuff, but just what is that monstrosity behind 0-4-0T #11 on the Cadillac & Lake City Railway? It looks like a very bad Hollywood attempt at fabricating the Lincoln funeral Pullman from a boxcar body!)

A roster of C&LC equipment appeared with a story on the line in the February 1968 issue of TRAINS. From the available options, my best guess would be "1702, Crew car, ex-C&WI, wreckmaster car".

Alan Maples