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I’m still confused about why these potash trains take the long way around. 4 crews needed to get it from Chicago to Webberville and that’s if the Plymouth sub crew has the time to run around at Williamson and then spot it in the Webberville stub end yard. Also: The subject Van Den Bosch hoppers, if...

12:00 Wyoming Yard: L303 building their train. Yard job coming out of the service track at Judd Street with a pile of boxcars and several loaded scrap gons with CSXT 6549. 2 centerbeams in Hager Lumber’s spur. At least 6-7 gons at Beacon Recycling, too.

In the pipeline is a B23528 for Webberville. Crew called at Garrett to take train to Walbridge, then will need a crew to Plymouth. I’m still confused about why these potash trains take the long way around. 4 crews needed to get it from Chicago to Webberville and that’s if the Plymouth sub crew has ...

https://hometownnewsnow.com/local-news/744852 Sounds like there are a few growing pains with the new setup, but I appreciate that they are asking for the ridership to contact them with issues and offer suggestions. Unrelated to operations but on the subject of public perception, WHHHYYYY are they su...

Grand Elk NB at the Elkhart camera 08:24, 4124, 4209, 68 cars.

Stone train heading up the Grand Elk this evening, visible on the Elkhart depot cam at 19:35. Lead locomotive is NS 4209 with 1176.

Starting tomorrow, Amtrak’s new Borealis service will provide a second daily round trip between Chicago and St. Paul via Milwaukee. Alternately known as the “baby builder” or TCMC, it will provide additional schedule options between those cities and additional connections at more convenient times to...

Grand Elk road freight inbound to Elkhart passing the VR camera at 08:10, so will be a daylight run back up to Kalamazoo later this morning.

Interesting discussion near the end of this article about the reconstruction of the U.P. Propane spur in Escanaba to receive tank loads a few years ago: https://www.dailypress.net/news/local-n ... -counties/

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53534580431_61aef51162_z.jpg Morning in Durand by Jonathon Leese , on Flickr Former Grand Trunk Western 4-6-2 #5632, a GTW wig-wag, and a GTW searchlight signal make for a fine display at Lions Park in Durand, MI. 6/4/2023 I've never seen a shot composed from thi...

Well there goes the georgia pacific boxboard plant in milan. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/05/georgia-pacific-closing-milan-corrugated-plant-laying-off-119-employees.html Is the old Ford plant in Milan still being used for storage? Was the Milan Ford Plant used for car storage after the...

“Lansing Subdivision,” essentially the western half of the current Plymouth Sub., was a new designation probably around 2005 that only lasted a few years. The entire territory was the Plymouth Sub before that, and after, just as it is today. I’m not sure what the purpose was. For some period of time...

One of the reasons CSX is putting so much money into the bridge is that they hope to remote it soon. Apparently they have an office in Evansville, IN, that already handles the remote operations of 6 other CSX bridges. The Coast Guard has yet to sign off on the removal of the on-site bridge tender, ...

Pinconning Jct. and Pinconning Terminal are the same location. The day job makes up both night road trains in Bay City yard and takes them, connected, to Pinconning where they are separated. The night crews start and end from Pinconning. There are occasional changes but the above is the normal rout...

I wanted to make a trip to railfan the Lake State Railway sometime in the next few weeks and wanted to ask for any advice on best spots for photos, busiest locations etc... Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. I think one of the things we would all appreciate in the end is a short report ...

There was a bit of time somewhere between 2006 and 2008 that D700 was based in Holland, and started their work going west, ending up in Holland for the night. Right you are. IIRC they also tried that for a bit in the 2019-2020 era as well. Looking back through this board’s fabulous search function,...

Late report: Y106 returning to Wyoming at Godfrey at 13:20 with 4 boxcars, and an unknown number of gondolas and tankcars.

It’s another year and there seems to be another round of work being done to keep the St Joe swing bridge in tip top shape. Happy 120th anniversary to St Joseph’s swinging queen! While the traditional Adlake navigation lanterns may be gone and it is now controlled from the shore instead of the doghou...

Well there goes the georgia pacific boxboard plant in milan. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/05/georgia-pacific-closing-milan-corrugated-plant-laying-off-119-employees.html Dang, another blow for the Milan NS local. Hopefully, another corrugated board maker sees potential in that plant an...

NS put cars on the ground at CP485 (Burns Harbor) overnight and as a result Amtrak cancelled all scheduled Michigan service today except trains 355/354 so far. 29 and 49 may be detouring around, I’m not sure.