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CSX is delivering a K93119 to Conrad today. If you want to see that engine in use the next few days should be a good time.

I see today one of those cars is empty parked next to that paint place at the corner of Cedar and Baker. There is a large crane sitting next to it and a heavy haul truck. There looked to be a loaded heavy haul semi close by as well. I don't know if maybe they are reloading the cars with something el...

Those oversize loads are at Reid Machinery now. You can get a very good look at them if you pull in their driveway on Logan.

I saw 149 pass through Lansing about 430 this morning. It was a solid consist but seemed a little on the short side although that could be just due to the fact 149 usually doesn't waste time getting places...

One of the CN locals, I believe 502, interchanged two oversize loads with JAIL yesterday afternoon. CN was calling them D5R's. They're large square pieces of equipment that are painted yellow and gray with the name ITS on them. Both are on 8 axle ttx cars. Reid Machinery received something a couple ...

That has been pretty regular for a couple months now. I don't think those numbers will hold out though :( We are shipping about 50 tons a day direct to MAC Steel in jackson all month and Padnos decided this week they will no longer be taking. Heads & Tails in Lansng. All except for one roll off per ...

JAIL leaving Padnos with about a half dozen loaded gons at 18:06 5/16/12

It was indeed lumber. I took a picture of them as they were pulling that car from Alro. I went back and zoomed in on the picture and the majority of the bumdles aren't wrapped.

I wonder why they had that lumber car on the north side of town if it went south of Mason? Could it have also been interchange traffic? Jail has the ability to transfer cars with CN don't they? It will be interesting to see ho 3 cars a day works out for them. By tonight we will have taken about 250 ...

When I was up there yesterday JAIL was pulling a empty bulk head flat car out of Alro. They also had a loaded beam car with them. When they got to Holt the Alro car wasn't with them. CSX interchange? They left the lumber load at rsdc part of the day then took it south with our empty coil cars at nig...

That is per week. I though it might be substantial consiering it will be steady regular freight and JAIL is a small operation. For someone like CSX it might not be note worthy but for a short line it is at least worth mentioning.

Padnos will be starting a new contract this week that will entail (if my calculations are correct) about 2 million pounds of steel to be loaded on railcars and shipped to a mill in NW Indiana. Possibly Newcore. I don't know all the fine details but was told for sure today almost all scrap from RSDC ...

Looks as though JAIL is getting ready to head south from College Rd with 2 loaded gons and maybe 20 empty coil cars behind a single gp9. 18:47 9/20

JAIL is switching at the south end of the RSDC tracks with one of the GP-9's. They hae 21 cars our here but keep changing the order. It has to be pretty close to what they'll take down. 8 RSDC empties, 3 loaded scrap gons, 9 boxes and a NW gon on the tail end. It looks to be loaded but I'm not sure ...

If they shoved a car right to the end of the line with some security fencing Lansing Ice and Fuel couple probably receive cars. I don't know if they sell enough volume to make that a viable option though.

50 empty coil cars to be exact They're still switching at college road. 20:40

JAIL is at College Rd getting a fresh crew to head south. Huge train tonight by jail standards. 2 engines, 7 loaded gons, 2 bulk head flats and a huge cut of empties from RSDC. They fill the passing track here. If anyone can get video of them I would love to see it. I'm not in a position to get one ...

JAIL is doing track work today between College and Holt Rd. I see they have a truck load of new ties sitting out here.

Thanks a lot for sharing the pictures.

JAIL is at RSDC with a gp9 and 15 elephant style. If I happen to catch them leaving I will try to post again. Pretty neat to see both engine types together.