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Does CSX get any of the chemical or scrap metal traffic? In Detroit, CSX currently seems to have very little presence or interest in Conrail anymore, aside from the intermodal to and from Livernois, and a CSX Dispatcher controlling the Lincoln Secondary. One would need sit at Delray at night to obs...

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/norfolk-southern-shareholders-back-ceo-alan-shaw-but-give-activist-investors-three-board-seats/ This is great news. If Boychuk and Barber ever got the controls of the company on their hands, NS would’ve fallen apart very quickly. They did however giv...

AARR wrote: ↑

Mon May 06, 2024 10:57 am

Northbound approaching Pontiac Yard.

That would be this

Delray wrote: ↑

Mon May 06, 2024 10:05 am

251 by the Fort St cam at 8:30 CN x3

The NS heritage units getting new paint. Wow. Time flies. Will they all get new paint? Kind of surprised they didn't just become ubiquitous black NS when it was time for a paint refresh. They are, the PRR is next for the paint shops. So far, the Reading Lines, Virginian, Southern and Lackawanna hav...

NS 1074 (Lackawanna Heritage Unit) is trailing on 11N, this is it’s first revenue run since getting fresh paint. Northwood, Ohio at 9:05

Graham Halverson wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 12:06 pm

Graham Halverson wrote: ↑

Sun May 05, 2024 9:19 am

CN E251 by the Fort St cam at 9:19. CN X4.
Ex-CITX leader

Royal Oak at 11:51. Super friendly engineer.

Opdyke at 12:15, missed the power

C&O Dispatcher wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 4:54 pm

This may help:

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5 ... the-mbr-co

Would it be possible to have someone here sketch on a present day satellite image roughly where all of that would’ve been?

Fascinating map though for sure.

David I’m not sure how far back into history you are looking, but as you may know, White Cloud was once a junction town where the Grand Rapids-Traverse City line (today the MQT) crossed the Muskegon-Big Rapids line. Wow. This I did not know. Would you happen to know where this junction would’ve bee...

C&O Dispatcher wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:31 pm

There was also the Dow Special on Sundays and the empties back on Thursday. I also recall the occasional GR-Baldwin turn when needed. Not sure what they ran in PM days.

I heard about this train brought up by some people that live up that way. Where did it run to?

396 and 395 ran to Traverse City today with a centerbeam and a few cars for Beacon (don’t have an exact count).

Having spent parts of my summers in East Jordan for the 20 years I’ve been on this planet, that is so darn cool. Been trying to find some sort of footage or photos of the #6 doing it’s thing, as I drive by it every time I’m up there at least two or three times a day going places around town.

Asking for my girlfriend who wants to know, but at it’s peak, how many trains would pass White Cloud a day? It’s obviously down to only a few trains a week, but given that the line ran (and still does run) to Grand Rapids, Baldwin and locations north of there (obviously abandoned), it had to have be...

2816 aside, that is one hell of a helper set!

AARR wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:16 pm

Northbound through Richmond long mixed freight

M382

RoyalKingoftheRails wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:52 pm

Short EB with mostly empty center-beams and a few box cars. CN 8802 and 8906 clear Trowbridge at 6:49 PM

L500, had no work in Lansing or Durand

RoyalKingoftheRails wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:36 pm

EB CN Manifest. Don’t know the symbol but it had 3156 and 2959 leading. Mid DPU was 3194. 6:30 PM

A492

R944 leaving Bristol Yard at 6:09 with CN 5459 LHF and around 30 cars, mixed bag consist tonight. Lots of tanks for DOW in the consist.

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:55 pm

MQT plans to retire 3389 and 3391 this year, would not be surprised if HESR also elects to retire 3390.

What are the planned replacements??

amessmann wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:39 pm

19:38 - WB manifest with 5707 and 5618 thru MP 225. 5707 had the most fouled horn I have ever heard.

That unit has an RS3L, it’s starting to go bad unfortunately

For the Southeast Michigan railfans here, CSX L310 last night had one of the new GP40-3 rebuilds (without the spongebob squarecab) working it (number was 6567). This unit is one of only a few that I know of in service. Unsure how long it’s staying but it was definitely something neat.