CSX Train Location Updates: October, 2020.

[Dan Cluley]

D706 is currently working at Ensel yard in Lansing.

Power is 751, 3203, 5500 & 5336.

[CR900945]

You mean D706 is at Ensel Yard?

[Dan Cluley]

You mean D706 is at Ensel Yard?

Yes. Fixed, thanks.

[CR900945]

D705 and D706 still have not settled into a predictable pattern. However, we have gotten some daylight movements out of them.

[ns8401]

D705 and D706 still have not settled into a predictable pattern. However, we have gotten some daylight movements out of them.

It seems to have a correlation with how easily the previous crew can get across or not... it’s a little hard to turn consistently when you use the same engines both ways and it dies en route routinely.

[georgehmanning]

​sometime around @11:57pm 10/14/2020 westbound D700 with 2 CSX engines and 7 freight cars arriving Bangor Michigan MP 60.72

[georgehmanning]

​@2:03AM eastbound D700 with 2 CSX engines and 2 freight cars arriving Bangor Michigan MP 60.72

[donnieland]

327 this morning
706a - 19.1 - 3198 ld - 508 axles - 7821'
3198 ld with 884? mid train dpu - 124 cars
709a - clear east waverly
will work waverly from the main via holland to west end wy yard

[georgehmanning]

​@07:41am westbound AMTK 371 SC44 engine IDTX #4615 leading two amfleet and two horizon passenger cars arriving Bangor Michigan MP 60.35

[Jetlink]

​@07:41am westbound AMTK 371 SC44 engine IDTX #4615 leading two amfleet and two horizon passenger cars arriving Bangor Michigan MP 60.35

Passed by the WE Sawyer at 08:38

[Tom49801]

327 this morning
706a - 19.1 - 3198 ld - 508 axles - 7821'
3198 ld with 884? mid train dpu - 124 cars
709a - clear east waverly
will work waverly from the main via holland to west end wy yard

Q327-15 @ 09:03am westward reported from mp CG30.0

[Tom49801]

​sometime around @11:57pm 10/14/2020 westbound D700 with 2 CSX engines and 7 freight cars arriving Bangor Michigan MP 60.72

D700-14 had gone westward with CSX engines #6547 + #6394 & had returned eastward with CSX engines in reverse order after running around their train to make the return trip to Holland (#6394 + #6547). D700 had previously ran with the CSX #2652 & CSX #6394.

[Tom49801]

Q327-15 @ 09:40am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 628 axles & 9,194 feet long. CSX #3198 leading + mid CSX engine #884 & 154 cars. He had picked up 30 cars from Holland.
Q326-15 @ 09:40am eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 304 axles & 4,203 feet long. CSX engine #222 + 1 & 73 cars. From a conversation with Dispatch, DD108.9 & DD91.9 are indicating he has 1 extra car & will do a roll by check at Benton Harbor. Extra car was found in the 23rd position & Dispatch read off the car's serial number. I'm assuming there's an AEI near Benton Harbor? He will be meeting Q327 at either Kirk or Gross, per the Dispatcher.
Q326-15 @ 09:56am eastward reported clear of the St Joseph Bridge. It was decided to put Q326 inside Gross at mp CG63.1

[BL2-1843]

With a new crew on board, D906 now had 179 cars leaving Lansing last night, four more than they arrived with, with the usual large set off and pick up. Made it by South Lyon at 01:00, earlier than I expected. D708 took back 63 cars to Lansing, 45 from the Howell pass and 18 more from the transfer. They left their GLC cars in the Fowlerville pass for another day.

[kd_1014]

I'm assuming there's an AEI near Benton Harbor?

What's an AEI?

[BL2-1843]

With a new crew on board, D906 now had 179 cars leaving Lansing last night, four more than they arrived with, with the usual large set off and pick up. Made it by South Lyon at 01:00, earlier than I expected. D708 took back 63 cars to Lansing, 45 from the Howell pass and 18 more from the transfer. They left their GLC cars in the Fowlerville pass for another day.

[Tom49801]

Q327-15 @ 10:29:47am westward Bangor Station mp CG60.35 with CSX engine #3198 + mid CSX engine #884 & 154 total cars.

[Tom49801]

I'm assuming there's an AEI near Benton Harbor?

What's an AEI?

Hi, AEI is an "Automatic Equipment Identification" system that reads the RFI (Radio Frequency Identification) tags that are placed on the rail cars. The AEI is a small white box on a pole placed near the track & it scans the RFI tags on the passing cars. The RFI tag has all of the cars info & it's a way of tracking where a particular car is along any railroad in the country that has AEI equipment. You can find videos of it on YouTube (think of it as being an electronic bar code that is scanned by radio waves).

[Tom49801]

Q326-15 @ 10:53am eastward, siding to main, at the east end of Gross mp CG61.3, with CSX engine #222 leading.
Q326-15 @ 10:54:42am eastward Bangor mp CG60.72 with CSX engines #222 + #395 & 73 cars.
Q327-15 @ 11:47am westward cleared the St Joseph Bridge with CSX engine #3198 + mid CSX engine #884 & 154 total cars.

[Tom49801]

Q326-15 @ 12:22pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 304 axles & 4,190 feet long. CSX engines #222 + #395 & 73 cars. He had no work for Waverly/Holland today.