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BNSF 8459, 9384 north at Riley St. Holland 4:06 PM. CSXT 449, 3054 pushing.

SB mixed freight cleared 7 Mile Rd. at 19:35. CSX 8839 + 71 cars.

Q32904 by Howell at 08:15 with CSX 5340+5274 with 105 cars. Two long jags of tank cars in the train. Q32804 went east 06:50 with CSX 8138+3301 and 125 cars. No long cuts of stone empties today. Not sure why they turned the power around and had the EMD leading.

Wondering were Q326-04 is. There is a green for #2 WE Grandville. The parade starts soon.

BL2-1843 wrote:Q32904 by Howell at 08:15 with CSX 5340+5274 with 105 cars. Two long jags of tank cars in the train. Q32804 went east 06:50 with CSX 8138+3301 and 125 cars. No long cuts of stone empties today. Not sure why they turned the power around and had the EMD leading.

329 just gave up the blocks and track dept has a warrant ensel to lake o. And another one got one going east from ensel to beck rd. 1102

BNSF 6395, 6189 with West Olive empties south at Riley St. Holland 2:30 PM. CSXT 3054, 449 pushing.

N800-04 is currently going through St. Joseph.

Empties with CSXT 5340, CSXT 5774 were west at Benton Harbor on track #1 at 22:00.

q32605 sawyer MI CG106. q32704 annulled. q32705 set for 5pm grand rapids. q32805 arrived Detroit 7:30am. q32905 ensel lansing.
d70005 grand junction MI. d70805 set for noon lansing.
no west olive coal loads seen. e80004 arrived Chicago 4am. e80005 arriving Chicago. e80006 in system.
q15005 set for noon north Baltimore. q15105 oak st Detroit. q13104 marshall IL. q13205 east greenup IL. q50805 Stockton OH. q50905 godsend OH.

​d70005 was east at Bangor MI at 10:49:50. CSXT 4032 leading 5 short covered hoppers.
​d70005 was west at Bangor at 9:27:11 with same consist plus a tank car to deliver to Hartford.
Q32605 was east at Bangor at 12:41:40, CSXT 479 and CSXT 8006, 80 cars.

CantBeShook.WeHot wrote: Q32905 ensel lansing 11:06 am.

By Howell at 08:20 with CSX 3346+236 and 58 cars. Q32805 went east at 06:02 with CSX 5252+5481 and 112 cars. 2nd day in a row for turning the power that came in on Q326.

D70104 is currently parked at the Southern Street Bridge in Dearborn as of 1146. CSX 114 (AC4400CW) and CSX 3216 (ES44AH) are leading. 5-10 military vehicles at the front of the consist.

Q329 west at Seymour 12:37.

The dd at 104.3 just got something for dragging equipment. Axle 22-24 and 54-55. 200 axles total. I didn't know anything was out there moving. 329 cleared the blocks a while ago. I did hear a hi railer at the 92 earlier. Would that possibly set it off like that?

KC8RBK wrote:The dd at 104.3 just got something for dragging equipment. Axle 22-24 and 54-55. 200 axles total. I didn't know anything was out there moving. 329 cleared the blocks a while ago. I did hear a hi railer at the 92 earlier. Would that possibly set it off like that?

Work train maybe.

SD80MAC wrote:

KC8RBK wrote:The dd at 104.3 just got something for dragging equipment. Axle 22-24 and 54-55. 200 axles total. I didn't know anything was out there moving. 329 cleared the blocks a while ago. I did hear a hi railer at the 92 earlier. Would that possibly set it off like that?

Work train maybe.

Hyrail vehicles typically do not activate DDs. When signal maintainers test them they may touch of a few axles manually, and trip the dragging paddles, but I don’t think they’d stand there and cause 200 axles. Usually just a handful! And then they usually follow it up by saying “Signal maintainer test at DD xxxx” over the radio. At least, that’s how I’ve seen and heard it done.

KC8RBK wrote:The dd at 104.3 just got something for dragging equipment. Axle 22-24 and 54-55. 200 axles total. I didn't know anything was out there moving. 329 cleared the blocks a while ago. I did hear a hi railer at the 92 earlier. Would that possibly set it off like that?

The HBD's allow us to type in "x" amount of axles for a test train and we have at times selected 100 or more axles to allow us the time to walk out of the equipment house and onto the track after hitting the "Enter" key & it also afforded time to test the draggers or to inspect the internal optics (mirror & lens) for each HBD scanner. The metallic flanges of the Hi-Railer's rail wheels (or anything metallic for that matter like our keys, a railroad spike, etc) are detected by the magnetic transducers the HBD uses for axle count & the infra-red samples the HBD scanners collect from each wheel bearing. If I was just checking the mirror & lens for each HBD scanner, I wouldn't key in a "test train", I would simply wave something metallic over the transducer & look inside the HBD scanner with a flash light when the shutter opened.

19:57 EDT Q32705 WB BANGOR CSXT 3346, 236 AND 144 CARS.

20:12 EDT E800 WB BANGOR WITH BNSF 5809, CITX 1329 WITH MT WEST OLIVE CARS.

06:26 EDT P37106 IDTX 4613 WB CLEAR NINER.