The Home Machinist!

Howard and Joanne Schrader's Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad has been one of the premier Grand Scale Railroads for the last 20 years. The Schraders have decided to retire, so next weekend, October 14 and 15, will be their last operating weekend. The RR is in Fairview, Michigan, about 3 hours + north of Detroit.

It's been for sale for a while, no takers. If I had a 1,000,000.00 maybe... Hate to pay the property tax on it..

Pretty amazing locomotives and their route through a national forest sounds very interesting. To bad we don't have something like this on the west coast.

Glenn

That place is a few miles from my cabin and my plan was to retire and railroad there. plans change and it's sad. Michigan is losing too many railroads right now.
This one
Junction Valley closed after the summer
Version in Grand Rapids is for sale and closed
And rumors of another for sale
And that's just Grand scale that I know of.

Now we're building and have about 600' on the ground and another couple thousand to go. Couple of more years.

mikell

The taxes should be rather low it's about 10 miles past the middle of nowhere. My cabin is less than $200 and worth probably aa tenth of the railroad.

Just as soon as I find a winning ticket on the ground from the lottery for a 100 million i will buy it.

I heard from Jim O'Conner that Howard sold it to a new operator.

It re-opened Memorial Day weekend for the 2018 season.