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Location: Vinewood Avenue, Detroit, MI
CP Vinewood is a location where the CN (former GTW) and Conrail's Shared Assets line from Bay City Junction are parallel and have a crossover. It is named after nearby Vinewood Avenue but the crossover is actually at Roosevelt Street. Southbound GTW trains are instructed on whether to run the original GTW/DTSL route here through West Detroit, or use the nearby Conrail route to Delray. Amtrak trains also use this crossover to reach Detroit's New Center Station.
Photo info: Amtrak 352 crosses over from the Conrail Shared Assets Line (former MC Bay City Branch) to the CN Shore Line Sub (former GTW) at CP Vinewood. 2004. [Jack Stewart]
Notes
For an article describing the improvements at Vinewood in 1953, click here.
Time Line
1953. The NYC changes operations here from a switch tender, to full remote control CTC operation from a panel at West Detroit tower. [RSE-1953]
Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI