Sandor and Emily Slomovits at the 2018 Green River Hootenanny. If you know the title to this song please post it in comments so I can update the title. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7S6uxnxnuU

This engine, the station, and a few feet of track are all that's left of The Manistee And North Eastern in Kaleva. From Facebook: Mike Snow The M&NE The Manistee And North Eastern was an early regional railroad in northwestern lower Michigan, first built to tap the region's burgeoning logging trade. Just before absorption into controlling Pere Marquette, the road obtained two NW-2 diesel locomotives, and they were repainted into Pere Marquette colors. The PM was purchased by C&O, and the ex-M&NE NW-2's went to C&O, and spent most of their career there. Upon retirement by Chessie System, this unit 3 with ex-C&O SW-7 4 were used to start up Leelanau Scenic Railroad (Leelanau Peninsula north out of Traverse City, MI), which never really seemed to get off the ground and both units mainly sat unused. The SW-7 is in a deadline in Manistee, MI on Marquette Rail, in similar PM paint as this unit, but lettered for LSR. Both units were heavily vandalized, but they were pieced back together and this last vestige of the M&NE rests on display on a short segment of track at a right angle to the original M&NE, but the locomotive actually sits on the PM right-of-way, owned by the village of Kaleva, MI next to the small 2-sided corner depot where M&NE crossed the original PM/C&O. Reportedly this engine was cut in half for transport by truck from Traverse City and then welded back together on site; if you look closely on the yellow side sill, in the center you can see a patch. Additions/revisions to preceding are welcome. The first Manistee & Northeastern logging trains passed through Kaleva in mid-October 1888, and by early November two trains a day were running. The first Manistee & Northeastern passenger train ran on January 6, 1889, but only went as far as the Bear Creek station, a few miles west of Kaleva. This train was a “special,” but regular passenger and general freight service began January 14 of the same year. The last Manistee & Northeastern passenger train between Manistee and Kaleva arrived at Kaleva on November 30, 1949, after leaving Manistee at 5:00pm. For the first time in almost 60 years, there was no passenger service provided by the M&NE, however, on January 31, 1955, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, which had abandoned their tracks between Baldwin and Kaleva, began routing trains through Manistee and over the old M&NE tracks to Kaleva. The last scheduled C&O scheduled passenger train passed through Kaleva, going south, on October 29, 1966, having left Traverse City at 5:55pm as “Train no. 26.” The last C&O passenger train crossed High Bridge on January 30, 1955, after passing through Kaleva. In 1966, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to close the Kaleva depot and have all traffic in the Kaleva area handled by the C&O offices in Manistee; the request was denied and the station stayed open.The last scheduled freight train to pass through Kaleva did so on February 19, 1982. Engineer Julius Gondzar eased his train out of the Boardman Yard, in Traverse City, at just past 3:30 pm on a Friday afternoon and headed south to Manistee. The rest of the crew consisted of Will Short, Trainmaster ; Terry Way, Fireman; Larry Lampton, Brakeman; Fred Horn, Rear Brakeman; and Martin Jaritz riding caboose. At 4:35pm, the train arrived in Thompsonville and 6 cars were picked up at that location from the interchange track with the Ann Arbor Railroad, and two cars were set off for the Ann Arbor. At Kaleva, one lone car was picked up by the train, for the last time, as a small group of people took pictures. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmqbJ1I8Qvs