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When I don't know the length of my train I multiply the number of car by 55 and it gets real close. So I would thing 55ft would be the average.

Rob

Doktor No wrote:That could also be why MQT lost their asphalt business in Manistee then.

last 2 trains out of barr yard had asphalt car on them for mqt

rob

The new cement business up in Elmira may be coming up from the Chicago area to AnnPere for interchange. That could also have been what you saw on 326. Without knowing where its from though...that's a semi edumacated guess. And then again...BUZZI may be getting busy as would be High Grade too. High ...

Yep, the W001 Geometry train that has been in the state recently, went by Howell at 10:30 heading west to GRP. CSX 6025 with whatever the extra tag along car has been on this train recently is for, was behind the locomotive. Looks like an old smaller coal car. Meanwhile, all the talk on the board a...

Grand elk done switching Wayland about to head north 17:10

Rob

First D705/D706 running today. D70603 on duty in Lansing. D70703 should run tonight around midnight. D70803 running mid-afternoon. d70003 at grand junction. q32603 got into grand rapids a short while ago. q32703 should run tonight from grand rapids n80103, e80102, d80301, d80103, d80203, d80303 in ...

K68225 heading to Grand Rapids 119 loads to Webberville

sounds like a WB light engine move is cleared WB between EE Lakeo and Seymour. No occupancy on the ATCS screen, just cleared blocks. The engines where facing the right way. The problem was with the 8555. It's wouldn't control stand had a problem and wouldn't move the engines but the 256 would. Ther...

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I heard 2-3 summers ago when the tie gang went down the Plymouth sub that Sunfield was scheduled to be rehabbed with new ties but that didn't happen with all the grain hoppers stored there. Then they left and the most recent crop of storage cars came over 12 months ago. Now that they are gone. No s...

I don't blame the crew for saying that. If I stalled a train with power that was rated for the hill, I would try to blame the equipment as well. You never know what sucker might believe it. After all you seemed to fall for it, hook line and sinker. However, since you are the "curator" of the CSX po...

Mqt and grand elk where trying to get the customer on the north side to get Csx to sell the line so they could get cheaper rates. One of the customer let Csx know and they looked in to it. Found out the where no trackage right and grand elk was paying anything to use the track. What should Csx do? A...

There are 2 cars there now but most of the time there only one

there was a 12 hour curfew last night and another one to night.

rob

Turning east at Plymouth, with UP 8555 + 8352 leading. But they called it out as X115-30 (on 2nd hearing, might be X150-30). Had 202 container flats / deep wells, all of them empty.[/quote] Considering the train was Northbound, had UP Power, my best guess would he a Q132 (SW reported an X) but it of...

d708 left Plymouth with 10,000 tons of train and the computer shows one of there engine shut down before making south lyons.

Rob

GP30M4216 wrote:
Is there another slug set based out of Wyoming Yard at the moment? I could have sworn someone reported a GP30 slug set there in the past week.

The gp30 set got badordered by the FRA and was sent out to get fixed

Rob

Tlout wrote:BNSF 5813, 6181, 6251, CREX 1344 light power south at Riley St. Holland 11:42 AM.

To get and push q326. Up the hill after a ad70ace died and left a sd50.to pull a 12,000 ton train

Rob

What type of camping ? Tent or rv

if you are looking to use a computer, look into cmri by Bruce Chubb. he has a great handbook covering signals and how their are used. he going to have another article in railroad model craftsman (December). you can use jmri to control it or write you own program. if your in the grand rapids area he ...