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Coe at the helm of his vintage 1945 diesel engine.

businesses and residents at
their home away from home.
Coe sees the railroad as
more than a novel link to the
pist, however. In fact, when
he bought the land, track,
cars and a vintage 1945 Alco
S-I diesel engine from the
Grand Trunk for $500,000 in
1983, the primary goal was
to establish a viable freight
business in the Walled
Lake-Wixom area, which is
peppered with light industry.
The erstwhile gas station
and vending business own-
er's current list of three
freight customers may not be
that impressive, "but we will
operate at a profit eventu-
ally," he guarantees. He has
been putting most of his time
into the railroad while a
manager runs his other ven-
tures.
Coe says that there are a
number of advantages in
having supplies delivered by
rail, even though the area
has excellent access to more
modern and conventional
methods such as trucking or
airplanes. "A train car will
often hold more than a truck
at a price that is competitive
with trucking rates and

cheaper than air shipment.
"In some instances, it's
easier to unload a train. We
deliver pellets to a plastics
company and the tracks back
right up to their warehouse.
The pellets are blown into
the plant off a special,
flatbed railroad car." Coe
also delivers freight to two
lumber firms and hopes to
add eight or nine customers
over the next year or two.
Coe's substantial invest-
ment may indeed pay off, but
not without a lot of hard
work. There's a little more to
buying a used train than
shopping for a good used car,
according to the native De-
troiter. What he got for his
$500,000 two years ago was
a 40-year-old, 660-
horsepower engine and a
bunch of 65-year-old railroad
cars which hadn't been used
since the early 1960s.
"Considering its age, the
engine was in very good
shape," Coe says. "It was
kept up rather well by the
Port Huron and Detroit Line
so there wasn't much repair
work to do." The passenger
cars however, were another
story.