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Frequent poster 640 posts ferroequinologist1 Frequent poster 640 posts
ferroequinologist1

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To All: The Delray Connecting RR was formed in 1904 to serve United States Steel's Great Lake Works in Detroit, Michigan. The line was nick named "The Zug Island Road" and was 15.46 miles in length. Zug Island was formed when Henry Ford petitioned the Corp of Engineers to dredge out the Rouge River Channel so that his Lake Boats could access his huge Rouge Plant. I believe the road is still extant. I painted, lettered and weathered this 50 foot "What If' boxcar to honor this Early Michigan railroad. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
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Rich_S Prolific poster 1,011 posts
Rich_S

Delray Connecting Railroad

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Delray Connecting Railroad (reporting mark DC) is a railroad operating on Zug Island in Michigan.The railroad interchanges with Canadian National (formerly Grand Trunk Western (GTW),Norfolk Southern (NS),CSX and Conrail (Shared Assets).

Delray Connecting Railroad is owned and operated by Transtar, Inc the railroad division of U.S.Steel. The Great Lakes Works (USS Steel Mill) is the primary customer.

From the description above from Wikipedia, it sounds like the USS Great Lakes Works and Delray Connecting Railroad are still in operation. Here is a video from YouTube.

 
ferroequinologist1, nice boxcar and neat history of another USS short line.
 
 
 
 
 

 

Cheers,

Rich S.
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dssa1051 Regular poster 438 posts
dssa1051

Delray Connecting RR

Yes, It still operates but it appears it never owned any equipment in interchange service.  It uses EMD switchers.

Robert
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fishnmack Regular poster 222 posts
fishnmack

Zug Island

Curious name, Zug Island.  One of the Germanic translations for "Zug" can be taken as "train".  
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Graeme Nitz OKGraeme Prolific poster 1,695 posts
Graeme Nitz OKGraeme

Zug Island...

...was named after Samuel Zug, an early entrepreneur in the Detroit area.

Graeme Nitz

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Tom Orlando Regular poster 110 posts
Tom Orlando

South Detroit

IMG_8917.JPG Im in the process of turning an old SP switcher into Delray connecting or Adrian & Blissfield ! Havn't decided yet. 

are the decals you used custom on the box car?
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ferroequinologist1 Frequent poster 640 posts
ferroequinologist1

Delray Connecting Decals.

Picker23: The decals for DC RR boxcar are Microscale individual letters from their Gothic Alphabet sheet. The capacity and dimensional data are from Rail Graphics sheets (no longer being produced). Yours, E.H.
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