CSX Train Location Updates - January 2021

[Tom49801]

N800-25 @ 10:24:12pm eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with BNSF engines #9271 + #6260 & 130 loaded coal cars. He's going to Grand Junction mp CG55.6 to add the 2 CSX pusher engines #579 + #989.

[amessmann]

After stopping east of 12 Mile Rd, the first grinder went east over the main track in South Lyon at 22:55 or so, and is currently reversing back west, maybe for another pass.

The second grinder passed the Green Oak DD as the first passed me at Lafayette St. Much talk of pancakes and the Comfort Inn on the radio.

At ~23:35 I heard "main to siding" on the scanner, by that time I was pulling into my driveway.

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P370-25 @ 11:00pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 16 axles & 305 feet long. IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiners.

[Tom49801]

D801-25 @ 11:53pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 544 axles & 7,211 feet long. BNSF engines #9271 + #6260 & 130 loaded coal cars & CSX pusher engines #579 + #989. This is N800-25 re-crewed.

[donnieland]

371 and 327 tuesday
371
600a - depart grand rapids- eb -reverse movement out of station toward pleasant st
603a - slow clear pleasant st - wb
608a - restricting plaster creek
613a - clear lamar
619a - clear grandville - 2 tk to main - 327 at grandville on tk1
627a/630a = clear ee/we hudsonville
637a - 19.1 - 16 axles, 306'
641a - clear 12th ave
642a - clear waverly
644a/648a - arr/depart holland
658a - clear ee east saugatuck
711a - clear pair wells
713a - 44.2 - 16 axles, 303'
722a - clear pair grand junction
729a/731a - arr/depart bangor - 2 coffee's today for train crew

327
3411 ld with 3300 - will pick up 42 cars at waverly
634a - clear dewent
641a/643a - clear ee/we hudsonville
654a - 19.1 - 328 axles, 4665'
3411 ld, 3300 trail, 79 cars with freddy
659a - clear 112th
701a - clear waverly
706a - clear east/west legs of the wye
working from main at holland to old siding to we waverly yard for pickup
922a - clear 28
927a - clear pair east saugatuck
947a - clear pair wells
953a - 44,2 - 496 axles, 6815'
3411 ld, 3300 trail, 121 cars with freddy bringing up the rear
1011a - clear pair grand junction

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P371-26 @ 07:27:52am westward Bangor's Center St mp CG60.35 with IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiners (0 passengers on/off at the station mp CG60.5)
Amtrak P371-26 @ 08:18am westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 308 feet long.

[J T]

Amtrak P371-26 @ 07:37:52am westward Bangor's Center St mp CG60.35 with IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiners (0 passengers on/off at the station mp CG60.5)

Did you mean 7:27:52?

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P371-26 @ 07:37:52am westward Bangor's Center St mp CG60.35 with IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiners (0 passengers on/off at the station mp CG60.5)

Did you mean 7:27:52?

Yes, I did, thank you I'm working with a 0 coffee handicap

[~Z~]

Per Bangor chat: q32726 still working holland. q326 is at michigan city. e80023 going on duty in 2 hours.

[Tom49801]

Q327-26 @ 09:56am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 496 axles & 6,815 feet long. CSX engines #3411 + #3300 & 121 cars (he had picked up 42 cars from Holland).
Q326-26 @ 09:58am eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 380 axles & 5,499 feet long. CSX engine #5410 + 1 & 92 cars.
Q327-26 @ 10:15am Bangor's Center Street crossing mp CG60.35
Q326-26 had called out an Approach signal for Grey mp CG82.8 He will wait at Riverside mp CG80.1 for Q327 to pass by.

[Tom49801]

Q326-26 @ 11:10am eastward reported from Coloma mp CG77 with CSX engine #5410 + 1 & 92 cars.
Q327-26 @ 11:32am westward reported by DD mp CG91.9 w/ 496 axles & 6,924 feet long. CSX engines #3411 + #3300 & 121 cars.
Q326-26 @ 11:42.25am eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSX engines #5410 + #5425 & 92 cars.

[Tom49801]

Q326-26 @ 12:14pm eastward reported by DD mp CG44.2 w/ 380 axles & 5,549 feet long. CSX engines #5410 + #5425 & 92 cars.
Q326-26 @ 12:52pm reported to Dispatch was down to 1.8 mph & almost at the crest of the Saugatuck Hill at about mp CG32.5
E800-23 is nearing the GR main in Holland at 152nd Street on the Fremont sub-div to enter the main when Q326 passes by.
Q326-26 @ 1:02pm eastward reported he cleared the Saugatuck Hill.

[Tom49801]

Q326-26 @ 1:32pm eastward reported by DD mp CG19.1 w/ CSX engines #5410 + #5425 & 92 cars. The DD data was stepped on.
E800-23 @ 1:34pm reported from the north leg of the Wye in Holland with BNSF engines #9271 + #6260 & empty coal cars.

[BL2-1843]

D70826 departed Rhytec in Fowlerville at 13:55. Heading east to Brighton to get the cars in the siding and bring them to Howell, Possible they may got to Fortech in Green Oak to pick up a couple cars but that may wait until tomorrow. G76425 Webberville grain train currently building a train there to take east.

[GP30M4216]

14:15, sounds like D702 has just finished working Zeeland. They had one empty to pull from Zeeland Lumber. Not sure what other switching was accomplished.

[Tom49801]

E800-23 @ 2:25pm westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 548 axles (length was stepped on) BNSF engines #9271 + #6260 & 134 empty coal cars. Or it could be 4 engines with 131 cars. I don't think he has the 2 CSX pusher engines since they'd normally be on the head end.

[amessmann]

D70826...Heading east to Brighton

Just beginning to hear them on the radio, from the long-long-short-long horn patterns I heard, it doesn't sound like they're going further east, not yet at least. Will update.

Yup, heading back west, called CH49 at 15:25.

[CR900945]

Any word on D705?

[Tom49801]

E800-23 @ 2:25pm westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 548 axles (length was stepped on) BNSF engines #9271 + #6260 & 134 empty coal cars. Or it could be 4 engines with 131 cars. I don't think he has the 2 CSX pusher engines since they'd normally be on the head end.

E800-23 does have the 2 CSX pusher engines #579 + #989 to be left inside Grand Junction siding's west end at mp CG55.6 They had called out an Approach Medium signal at 3:10pm after being delayed by switch trouble. The switch had to be cleared out of snow & ice.
E800-23 @ 3:49:32pm westward Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with BNSF engines #9271 + #6260 & 131 empty coal cars.

[BL2-1843]

Any word on D705?

Last I heard, while D708 was in Brighton to bring the GLC cars back to Howell, that D705 was being held east of South Lyon for the Webberville grain load who is short on time, and now nearing Howell. . D708 will head back to Lansing power light, the same way they went east, after G76425 gets by. CSX 537+458 with 90 cars.