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JAIL headed south across College road with one LTEX engine and about 22 coil cars 1825 6/24/11

Looks like JAIL is getting ready to head south from RSDC. Two LTEX engines in the lead and a long string of coil cars in tow. In fact I hear them whistling for College Rd now. 1900 4/27

Its still the same issues for CN on the Holly trying to head up Birmingham Hill. I hear 391 often telling the dispatcher they had to throw another unit online to maintain train speeds. CN stalls fairly often just west of Cory Yard in Lansing. Trains doing pickups out there are unable to make the hi...

JAIL was north bound in Leslie at 03:25 4/8

I've always thought it would make sense for the Pere Marquette to be extended to Toledo interchanging with the other two routes to take passengers going east instead of everyone having to go to Chicago. Toledo has a decent size station. I don't know anything about the track arrangement or how compli...

I haven't been around the radio for a few weeks but I was hearing 489 work Durand about 12:30 every night. I saw them one day last week pass through Lansing about 06:30

There are some rumors going around RSDC that we may be going to a 24/7 schedule in the near future. 19 days on and 2 off. I heard this last week and was kind of skeptical since it was just a rumor. Over the last couple days all sorts of racks have been showing up. Metal and wood like we usually use ...

If I remember right Alro in Jackson is still serviced by NS.

I heard a welder on the radio Friday beforei went to work that the Alro switch (MP209.53) would be out of service all weekend as the siding was being worked on. In passing by there on I69 today there looks to be some fancy track equipment sitting out there. If anyone is interested you could probably...

JAIL just headed south from RSDC. Looked like they only had a few gons in tow but I saw them at a distance so don't quote me. 21:00 3/22

JAIL is sitting just south of I94 facing south 00:28 3/17

It looks as though JAIL is getting ready to head south from RSDC. I can hardly see the engines towards College Rd. From here and can't see the tail end. Looks to be a lot of tanks on it tonight. I probably won't see when they leave as I have to get back inside. 22:57 3/10/11

JAIL is sitting under I94 facing south bound tonight 2/25/11 00:02

JAIL looks to be in Jackson just south of I94. When I went over the tracks there were cars down there. I'm going to assume its the south bound train. I was inside at RSDC all night so I didn't see when they passed by there. I think it was about this time of night when I heard them talking to NS on S...

JAIL just crossed College Rd. Headed south with 2 engines and about 15 coil cars. 19:44

JAIL just headed south from College Road. They left between 18:05 when I last checked and 18:20 when I looked again. They had two LTEX engines, 3 boxes, 15 coil cars, and 2 mill gons in that order. I did get a video I'll post to my youtube channel tomorrow.

Amtrak ridership and revenue soar on Michigan routes Contact: Janet Foran, MDOT Office of Communications, foranj@michigan.gov 517-335-7176 Agency: Transportation January 24, 2011 -- Ridership and revenue soared on Michigan's three Amtrak routes during the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, according...

I'm starting a new job tonight working outside at RSDC. If I see anything exciting or trains heading out I will try to post something. I'm told I'll have lots of hours to be bored around there so watching J&L do their thing there sounds like a really good idea. I mean I'd be doing it anyway, why not...

Just for a little insight on empty miles in trucking. Usually trucks wont go more than a couple hundred miles empty. Usually the longer empty runs are because of the particular area of the country you are in. In Florida a fair percentage of north bound dry vans are empty. There just isn't anything m...

I caught a train the other night on CSX Q19614. Can anyone tell me about this train a little bit? I have been working a lot the last few months but wasn't previously aware of intermodel trains running around on this CSX line. With the exception of X500 which has some double stacks from time to time....