The General Electric factory that manufactured general purpose motors closed around 1990 and the work went to Mexico. My dad worked here during World War II, and I spent some time here in the 1980s helping implement a real-time inventory and production tracking system.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, along with the Michigan Central Railroad, built and operated the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. The Pennsylvania Railroad operated the full-service Northern Arrow over the GR&I between Cincinnati and Mackinaw City on weekends as late as 1961. Travelers could buy sleeping car accommodations, ferry passage to the island, transfer to the hotel, and hotel reservations through railroad ticket agents.
The line became part of Penn Central and then Conrail, and was operated by CSX after Conrail was partitioned between NS and CSX. Currently it is leased to Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern, a division of RailAmerica. CF&E operates the entire former PRR route between Gary, Indiana and Crestline, Ohio. The former GR&I now exists only between Fort Wayne and Decatur, and carries mostly traffic to/from the Bunge Ltd. plant.
CF&E's power roster is made up entirely of GP38-2 units previously owned by C&NW. The color scheme is a spiffy departure from RailAmerica's red-white-and-blue, and I didn't see any RailAmerica markings on the loco.
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