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Hope the turnout is better than last year!

pudgy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:09 am

CH 69.7 has been that way a few years now. Not sure when it was replaced.

A 2012 post on this board indicates the signal was already replaced with a Safetrans replacement by that time. #history

Y121-02 westbound from the main to the M.J. lead Zeeland Michigan @ 15:38 CSX engine #6508 + 5 cars. BF73BD40-0DB7-419C-8BBD-B9C32D52F4B7.jpeg Y121-02 westbound from the M.J. lead to the main Zeeland Michigan @ 16:00 CSX engine #6508 + 4 cars. It was fun to catch GRHC trackside in Zeeland and catch...

Y121-02 eastbound stopped on the main preparing to enter onto the M.J. lead Zeeland Michigan @ 14:14 Onto the M.J. lead @ 14:16 CSX engine #6058 + 6 cars. Note: Y121-02 eastbound has cut off 4 cars of its train and left them on the main and will be setting off 1 loaded center beam flat car on the Z...

Details for the CP Empress 2816 transcontinental tour are being made public today:

https://www.cpkcr.com/en/community/fina ... team-train

Yesterday, January 29, P42 174 was released from Beech Grove leading train 51 the Cardinal from Chicago, then was assigned to lead train 30 to DC. This is the first Genesis painted in the Phase VII red blue and deep blue scheme debuted on the ALC-42s. The red and dark blue nose with the white stripe...

Tell me what the M&J lead name is for and what was the customer and what did they produce? For 100 points.... Mead Johnson… baby formula I’ve seen it both ways depending on the timetable M&J or M.J. lead M.J. would seem to be correct because it’s Mead Johnson not Mead and Johnson. It’s kind of like...

Nice G125 video steamlogger! That ROUTE ROCK covered hopper a few back from the engines is entering at least its 45th year in that paint scheme! I wonder what the deal is with those covered dumpsters along the old drive there a Plaster Creek?

IIRC Holland Panel and Plascore are no longer active shippers with CSX. My mind may have been playing tricks on me, but I’m pretty sure there was a covered hopper at Plastcore about a week ago. It was picked up by Thursday late afternoon. I’ll keep a closer eye on it. Cars tend to linger for weeks ...

I closed out 2023 noting 16 inbound loads to Van den Bosch Feed in zeeland, and appreciate GRHC noting that he counted 22, which is certainly more accurate because he lives even closer to the siding than I do! 2023 also saw two outbound transformer loads on 8- or 12-axle depressed center flatcars ea...

As of 11:40, Z151 with a 4 pack of MQT power parked under the Business 196 overpass west of Lamar at Wyoming Yard with a slew of covered hoppers up front, my wife estimated about 350 cars . I saw that faded orange unit in the mix and wondered if that was the BPRR unit back in action, it is!

From a video I saw in the FB Michigan’s Railfans group, Marquette Rail southbound at 11am passing 5th St with MQT #2040, MQT #3391, BPRR #3345 and MQT #3408 and a long line of cars. Grain hoppers on head end in the first 10 seconds of the video. I would assume parts of the grain cars were included ...

I've been racking my brain here, but maybe someone can help jog my memory. I seem to remember someone reminiscing about working at Carleton Tower back in the 1970s; while they mostly spoke of C&O and DT&I operations there, they did mention a bit about PRR/PC as well. I seem to remember them mention...

Does anyone know how long Guardian has been there? I started seeing the "Glass Man" sometime in the late 70s/early 80s... JG I did some research and answered my own question, and it corroborates what JG recalls. Guardian Glass opened their Carleton float glass plant in late 1970 and had a couple ex...

What CR job works down the Lincoln 2ndary to service the Ford Parts complex at Sibley and Guardian Glass near Carleton? Guardian is a trailing point switch for northbound moves, so does the local go all the way into Carleton, run around their train in one of the sidings south of the diamond on the C...

Well there ya have it. Do we know what kind of traffic is being interchanged at Milan? Is it freight from up north routed towards Detroit? Historically, a portion of the interchange traffic were 86’ boxcars of engines coming out from the GEMA plant (now Stelantis) at Dundee. The engines they have p...

LansingRailFan wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:02 am

AARR SB at Warner Rd with 3925 leading. They had to recrew after taking that empty grain train north for GLC.

But is Nickthatrailfan in Milan on this Saturday?! Because then he would see this and get an elusive daylight AARR catch!!

Empire Builder cancelled…I’m surprised they’re not running their “baby builder” round trip at least to the twin cities and back….considering MN and WI are underwriting the new service theoretically starting sometime after the average temperature reaches 60 degrees. Meanwhile, the Canadian continues ...

Y121-19 eastbound is stopped on the main mp CG27.52 @ 11:13 On the move and passing through Holland Michigan @ 11:24 CSX engine #6137 + 2 box cars. F6706E57-19C0-4D29-AF14-190DCF73CEA4.jpeg Great captures of some of the first cars from Coastal! Their pull from the other day was a TBOX high cube car...

08:50, Y121 engine 6137 eastbound on the Holland Siding from Waverly yard to pick up yesterday’s L301 setoff. Mostly tankcars, with a few covered hoppers and 2 gons included.