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Josh a railfan on the WLE site told me that they were 66 empties and CN power off the Bessemer probably heading for CN in Toledo. This is the first time Ive heard of such move....

Now that's a cool movement if I ever heard of such movement. I asked for you over on the Wheeling and Lake Erie yahoo group.

That is most likely Mitchell Plastics, a brand new plastics automotive supplier that uses rail.

Avon Lake ford plant getting a new makeover as well

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/05/for ... ntal-dead/

The Flat Rock Plant has more than nine lives....It lives

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/05/for ... ntal-dead/

Is buying the warehouse next door to the west and will be adding more roads and add more connections to the CSX line in an expansion project.

https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/asahi ... -warehouse

Q310/311 are back running through here up to Ridgeway as Avon-Columbus-Russell, D756 as a Crestline-Columbus Parsons Turn but not sure if it runs on the Burt Line or if it takes the Indy Sub at Galion and heads to Ridgeway and takes the connection there to Columbus. Q146/Q147

Thanks to Metal x and North Star expanding, IORY is seeing a pickup in scrap traffic and another customer was reintroduced a few weeks ago in Cincy. Moskowitz Recycling started shipping scrap on the IORY again.

Unit trains of corn off the CP are being handed over to the CFE in Chicago and brought to the IORY in Lima for the ethanol plant. Also unit sand trains are also finding their way to liMA and they are being handed over to the WLE

Two customers have sprung up in the Upper Sandusky area....The northern most grain elevator has been revamped after the old facility was demolished and the Andersons have taken up residence here. Two spurs that are at least half a mile long with blocks of hoppers that occupy them. Switched by CSX an...

A Brenntag chemical distribution depot will be coming to Toledo and NS will serve it. It will located there on the north side of the tracks just to the east of the interchange of Airline Junction. And Amware in Brook Park will be revamping the spur that goes to the CSX iNDY sUB so that CSX will serv...

So this is coming to Livonia. They want to build a brand new building but where would be the perfect place in Livonia.

https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/plast ... s-michigan

What is the status of the CSX Northern Sub.? How many trains per day? When I visit the kids at Ohio State I never see any action on the old C&O. Same question for the Columbus Line Sub.? Thanks for any help. Its tricky to tell, coal and manifests are down but south of Columbus on the northern sub, ...

Will CN still get to switch the plant too off their little industrial spur?

Yes both Samaria and Urania sidings have mostly storage cars on them....I don't know what the AA does with all the yard tracks by the Azalia Dundee Cement plant...There was someone on here when we discussed the Diann Siding that the ANNIE was going to put in a longer siding with more interchange tra...

This refining customer is locating in Oregon Ohio just to the north of NS Homestead Yard but will not be an AA customer. NS will serve the plant. Alponts Interstate Chemical Company decided to build this plant here instead of over in Erie Pa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlHEgPIuM3E&fbclid=IwAR0o...

In Springfield, both Topre and Cohen Recycling use the same transload for their scrap shipments. Not sure about a steel transload overat Junction but I do know they load argon gas? and other liquids onto tanks.

Don Simon did you see this news about the MAC Commodities facility in Middleton...GLC is going to go gangbusters with all this traffic coming online. https://www.michfb.com/MI/farm-news/Opportunity-awaits-New-organic-corn-facility-to-accept-product-this-fall/?fbclid=IwAR2-PW5u3kbxGhepKCqwld1tR40QCmr...

kd_1014 wrote:Can someone provide me with info on the train traffic and lines thru Mansfield? Going there tomorrow.

12V, 15V still as does 169, 170, 171? a coal train, and some ethanol and gas sstill run this way.

Mahindra looking at the old Buick City site in Michigan.

https://www.mahindraautomotivena.com/ev ... k9OwP31WN4