Location: CP Grand, Detroit, MI

CP Grand Interlocking Control point Grand is the beginning of the "High Line" track heading north towards Milwaukee Junction. It is located south of Grand Boulevard at milepost 54.1.

Photo Credit: Taken from the head end of a GTW locomotive on the northbound main, a southbound Amtrak passenger train passes to the left, heading towards West Detroit. (Note: the Amtrak locomotive is "pushing" the train. Another trains is "in the hole" on the "high line" during this 2010 three-way meet. [Charles Geletzke Jr. photo]


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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

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