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9-1-2023 Train Symbols By contract, a crew may be required to work two train symbols per work day (example, a crew for GR-1 may be tasked with working LGV on the same day). If the crew is required to work an additional train symbol on a given day, they will be compensated according to the additional...

Update Great Lakes and Ohio River Railroad Regular Train Symbols 9-1-2023 GLOR has updated their Divisions and Subdivisions slight, which is also reflected in their subdivisions and train symbols. The GLOR will operate the following divisions and subdivisions effective 9-1-2023 Northern Division – T...

RIP Hobo Shoestring. Whatever deamons were chasing you won't get you now.

Sadly, I think this is was the outcome many of us who had followed this thought would happen.

AARR wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:26 pm

I'm impressed that you can keep everything organized!

Who is saying I can ?

September 1st, 2023 Update: There has been a slight operational change to the GLOR's operations. ADR-2, which had been running from Adrian to Diann is now changing their operations slightly. This train will now take the SW wye connector and run to Erie Yard rather than running to Diann. This change ...

Football Special Update : GLOR will be operating 3 football special trains on November 25th, 2023 for the Michigan vs Ohio State football game. FB-1 will operate from Lima, Oh to Ann Arbor. This train will leave at 4:00 pm on Friday evening, arriving approximately 9:00 pm in Ann Arbor. Passengers wi...

September, 2023 Update: The GP35M-3's 393, 394, 395 and 396 are expected to be released from the shops at some point this month. The next units scheduled to go in for rebuilding / upgrading will be SD20's #75 and #76, as well as GP15-1's #65 and #66. The SD20's will be redesignated as SD20-3's while...

August 2023, Update: The GLOR has again leased the former GMO open hoppers from the ICN for sguar beet service this fall. These cars were originally purchased for the beet service but were transition to serve the quarry traffic when sugar beet traffic stopped in 2016. According to early reports, des...

I hope they find him in satisfactory condition or better. He is the hobo that videotapes his adventures and posts them on Youtube I think.

Amtrak MOW truck with 1 ballast hopper in tow, WB clear Dexter 3:10 pm.

BL2-1843 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:06 am

chapmaja wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:43 am

Any news on this project?

Evidently when I reported the project was starting, it became obvious later that they were only doing perk tests. Was there two weeks ago and everything is status que, aka nothing further has been done.

i see. Thank you.

June, 2023 Update #2: The Clare to Baldwin section of the railroad is progressing slower than expected. The availability of railroad ties has become an issue which is slowing down laying of rail along the line. The rail itself has also become a bit more difficult to acquire than had been expected. T...

Any news on this project?

June 1st, 2023 Update: The GLOR has run their last coal train to Exxesville. The coal plant is being powered down this month. The last shipment of coal was sent in and the GLOR pulled the final cut of coal cars from the plant on May 28th and sent those cars to the MMGN for storage west of Carson Cit...

May 1st, 2023 Update: No major changes on the GLOR in April 2023. The biggest updates involve the lines around Whitmore Lake. GLOR and Michigan Seemless Tube, located in South Lyon, have agreed to the location and funding for a transload facility at the former site of the Hoover plant in Whitmore La...

April 1st, 2023 Update: Michigan Seemless Tube in South Lyon has apparently realized, some 40 years from when they stopped rail service that maybe it wasn't the best idea. They approached CSX about possibly reinstalling a branch from the CSX main in South Lyon back to the plant. The City of South Ly...

March 2023 Update #2. As mentioned above, GLOR has purchased the INER. The decision has been made that at this time, all locomotives on the roster will retain their INER reporting marks and paint scheme. The incoming units, two SD70M's from Union Pacific will be sent to the shops in Hudson where the...

There has been an interesting project going on along the GLOR's Alma Branch starting in late 2022 that is expected to continue through at least mid-2023. St. Louis, Michigan, known for being the Middle of the Mitten is also known for something much less friendly. Velsicol, a chemical manufacturing c...

March 1st, 2023 Update: GLOR is expanding again. The GLOR will be purchasing the Camp Chase Railway in Columbus, Oh. The Camp Chase Railway is a 15 mile shortline running from Columbus to Lilly Chapel, Oh. This line will connect, via trackage rights to CSX and NS in Columbus, as well as with the GLO...

No apples were transloaded on the WMI & sent to Gogo Squeeze. MQT handled 2 test cars for Gogo Squeeze that got transloaded in Walker. I was told by some of the G&W employees that G&W messed up the move so badly that the owner of Gogo Squeeze crap the move down after unloading the test cars. Mike H...