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Coming to Bay City, a probable customer for the LSRC. https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2020/02/mineral-extraction-company-coming-to-bay-city-plans-50-100-permanent-jobs.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=baycitytimes_sf&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1HSJPf5-0su_RZgKGsNwwLWx5t4qoxlhUW66_...

A sawmill is locating on the grounds of a former GP particleboard plant. https://www.petoskeynews.com/gaylord/featured-ght/top-gallery/jobs-new-life-for-languishing-property-michigan-lumber-and-wood/article_1b3d1185-f60c-510d-ac66-e9fc8eed60c9.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=...

This company would like access to rail too. Dakkota Integrated.

https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsIte ... igan.shtml

This company would like access to rail too. Dakkota Integrated.

https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsIte ... igan.shtml

GM Investing in its Hamtramck and Brownstown Twp plants.

https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsIte ... kcYbLaGMRo

In will be getting a new customer later this year....Edds Supplies out of Shipshwana Indiana will be locating a large fertilizer terminal to the west of South Milford.

Would you happen to know who the customer is that ships outbound diesel to the AA in the Toledo area?

AARR wrote:Is this an unit train? If yes of what?

Burb8145 wrote:60P is en route to Zilwaukee on what I believe is on LSRC trackage. It still departed from the CP Bensenville Yard in Chicago as usual.

A unit train of potash or fertilizer

AARR, yes a new customer did spring up in the Batavia area in the form of a transload. They bring in perlite and marble dust.

Because they run at night now....

Ford investing more money into its Wayne and Dearborn Plants.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ ... 675193001/

An addition is planned at the Pregis plastic factory as they will be installing a new line...More good news for the grand elk for sure.

https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/pregi ... e-michigan

So how is everyone entertaining themselves these days? I got a laptop setup with spectrum as my internet, earlier this year I just got the internet package for 49.99 but they raised it on me to 74.99 telling me that the other price was just a promotional offer, which I think is blasphemy and am look...

Still run to Flat Rock two to three times a week. Y@ can tell you the other details

And the other wheeling train that had the other set of hoppers that was reportedly in Bellevue that an Akron Canton oh area railfan reported coming off the Bessemer that previously hauled granite ballast from Canada. I have no idea where that set went. Unless both sets were sent to Zug Island.

Hi guys. I was the one who reported the whole train with the product in the hoppers came off the wheeling in Toledo, Well I am in fact wrong and will own up to it..However the CN hoppers did come off the Wheeling as they were brought over after being in storage on the Bessemer. The gons or hoppers o...

Josh and AARR, I forgot to tell you two that Joshs first sighting was a train was returning to Canada after hauling granite ballast to the Bessemer. This is from the poster who told me this.

Once a busy place to find industry and heavy switching is now a thing of the past for CSX, What does Lake States see in these two properties. What about the sidings between Novi and Flint? What does the future hold for them?

Right now there's a train of empty BLE hoppers sitting westbound on the Lakeshore. There are 2 WLE units on the front end (7013 on the point) and no power on the back end. Looking at a PA railroad map it looks like the easiest way to get from the Bessemer to the Wheeling is via the Union Railroad. ...

Guys heads up for a WLE train heading for Toledo that came off the Bessemer late last night in Pa. A railfan reported seeing it with 66 empty CN hoppers and CN power in the lead and it was sitting on the Lakeshore in Bellevue at 11:29 PM. It will most likely recrew and do a reverse move in town and ...