SP&TV Names
To choose the layout name, we started with our initials. We then pulled out a map of Michigan and started looking for matches. "Superior" came easily for the Great Lake. "Petoskey" is a town in the northwestern Lower Peninsula, the farthest point of Chessie's system. The Tahquamenon Falls are an Upper Peninsula tourist attraction, which we shamelessly turned into a village to fit our scheme.
Two of Michigan's more famous towns are included in our slogan, but not our name. As we have found out since leaving the midwest, there is a Cool, Texas, but it is almost always hotter there than in Hell, Michigan. Paradise, however, is much cooler, being along the southern shore of Lake Superior. In case you were wondering, there is no SP&TV rail service to Hell--it is served by a bus. This creates a jarring ride--as anyone who has been there knows, the road to Hell is not paved with good intentions--or much of anything else.
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Revised 8 April 2002
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