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Doktor No wrote:One more speed update. There is no longer a speed restriction in place for trains in excess of 7000 tons between Porter and Holland. If you have the horsepower you can take your coal train to 50 now. Neat huh!?

Also starting today speed thru waverly and hudsonville siding 30mph signal indication.

AN E945 out of Flinty for the west, CF 09:30. All day slog across the state I would think. Lansing yard job goes to 23:00 next week with both locals going to 07:00 and 08:00 days. That should put 707 into Wyoming with Z151, Y295, Y290, etc, etc. Oh happy day! They don't want anything to come in on ...

X10230 out of chicago should be into gr at around 7pm if they keep rolling
Not sure what it is. Just went by pine jct.

Another e945 out of flint today crew is on train should be in gr early evening.

e94910, e94911 haven't left west olive n90310, n90311 hasn't left chicago d70011 zeeland q15111 lincoln sub detroit q15011 godsend OH q23111 se haskins OH q24111 sibley road cc103 q21611 walbridge q27210 eureka road CC96 q27211 OB Cabin OH l13211 hasn't left salem IL q32111 17:00 flint departure q3...

Doktor No wrote:Riding a shove move like that on CSX would get you two weeks off...the FIRST time you're caught. Not exactly a smart place to ride IMHO either. But whatever.

And it is not even a empty lumber car!

It was cancelled last week. If I find out anymore new info will post.

K239 power going to house for fuel,E945 by brighton wb to gr.

Crew called this am to taxi to flint to get empty windmill train and bring back
To GR belive they were cf 0830. Also have heard that there will be the csx
Executive passenger train coming thru michigan somewhere around sept 15th.

E44528 at west olive pulling eastern empties back to grand rapids. I thought West Olive was done with Eastern Coal. Could these just be cars that were in storage? :? Are they already underway? The train was a western train cut down to 100 cars for loading as a eastern train. Thought they Were done ...

E44528 at west olive pulling eastern empties back to grand rapids.

Crew cf 0800 taxi to flint to get e945 and bring to GR, also two d jobs
Called this am the plan was to taxi to grand junction and get n956 and bring to
GR.

next k windmill train called around 11am out of chicago should be
nice day for pics.

As info there is a n956 for flint planned out of chicago today with a crew there in place for
It so we will see if the trains are coming back this way.

Nothing showing yet on K32418 in Chitown. One crew there and thats for 326 I would assume. One crew there for a BN coal train not called yet and one BN empty downbound now in the West Olive pool. Your guess then is as good as mine at this point as to when it gets called. So they added the windmill ...

MQT3001 wrote:The GRE was eastbound at Leonard/Plainfield at 8:25 EDT with 8 cars: two tanks and six CHs


Any info on that windmill train?

K234 @ curtis waiting to get on NS as of 11:40

MQT3001 wrote:What happened to that windmill train?

Still not called in chicago looks like sometime this evening.

Jochs wrote:Not sure what they called it, but CSXT 2354 and CSXT 6954 came lite and picked up cars at APL Logistics this morning around 10am near Coloma.

It was D700 went light power to apl to spot car inside building. Crew last night could not spot inside.

K242 called @ chicago for 7:35

One of the ktrains out of grand rapids cf1030 to chicago