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Jetlink wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:21 am

I''ll likely be in the area next week. Perhaps I can check it out and post a report.

Divert to TVC and come in low....should work fine.

Snoop the internet. Try the CSX Grain Partners. Standish is one and there are other Michigan customers on line.

Try CSX Grain Express in your google search. You probably won't be disappointed.

SHEPUF! Used to be a billboard and on every train bulletin. Start Helping Everyone Put UNBELIVEABLE First. Well no, something else but it was absurd. If I find the framed pic I purloined from the engine house....

CSX must have a department dedicated to changing train symbols :roll: Like many big companies, they change what can easily be changed, the stuff that really needs to be changed being obfuscated... they hope. EXACTLY! My god, the stuff they used to put up around the system to RALLY THE TROOPS were a...

Stand all day? I CAN'T STAND IT!

Ethylene oxide. We used to get it for some greenhouses over in the West Olive area. I believe they parked them at the runaround out on the main south of the Consumers Energy switch..in greater downtown West Olive. But that was more than a few years ago. It's used as a ripening agent...for one applic...

2021 4,607, 312 tons and a carload runs about 110 tons that gets you 41,884 coal cars inbound and divide that by 130 cars you get 322.18 trains to West Olive per year.

EVEN the officers on scene cannot speculate. The Chief or man in charge could but that doesn't mean they would. No one sticks their collective necks out anymore and for good reason. Notice on MLive and other news/tv sites they don't put up pics of the crash or the cause of the fire anymore...(it's s...

They did say that "It was unconfirmed as to what caused the stoppage." They can't say what the don't know for sure. Doing otherwise is foolish but sometimes they do it and get called out for it. (as they probably should) Now a 'daze' people get upset if you show a picture of the car in a crash...."M...

PARK IT AT FOX FER GOD"S SAKES...What is the point of going into town? The crew should have just STOPPED out there...make a command decision for crip's sakes....
And I would probably be fired by now anyway. There is no logic anymore.

Who is getting the tanks at Ann Street? The MQT customer up at Alpine or the feed additive conglomeration that got booted from CSX bids that's up east of Cedar Springs on Stout?

The Punkin Vine was the Wabash line from Montpelier to Gary.

rail_watcher wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:31 am

I know Mark D. was horrible with railfans while he was in charge of ADBF. I don't know anything about Mr. Bagwell, but do y'all think they will be a little more railfan friendly under this new ownership?

Understatement of the year IMHO!

BRIDGE IT! Too much money but possible. Then you rely on no one but CSX who doesn't even run anything that I know of on that sub. NS does very little. Do the switches but then you still have NS to rely on. If and when CP gets the KCS things could change. Always been my contention to do this and then...

Not if they build a crossover to the Lake Sub that belongs to CSX right across the tracks in Porter...AKA the old MC main. Then they would have a myriad ways and routes into Chitown.

My condolences BL-2. Sad news.

One word for any sort of a passenger operation: INSURANCE.