CSX Train Location Updates - April 2021

[ns8401]

SB coal empties just cleared Middle River. BNSF 5724 + 8777 leading.

By Romulus at 418pm.. 135 Hoppers, miserable radio reception right now.

[ns8401]

RN is calling the D70510 with the CSX 8887 leading. So there’s your lead engine heading west today.

[Micah_D]

RN is calling the D70510 with the CSX 8887 leading. So there’s your lead engine heading west today.

EMD SD40-2 leading. Very cool! Too bad I won’t be there to see it... bummer

[AndrewsTrains]

RN is calling the D70510 with the CSX 8887 leading. So there’s your lead engine heading west today.

Do you know location

[ns8401]

RN is calling the D70510 with the CSX 8887 leading. So there’s your lead engine heading west today.

Do you know location

Just called Eckles road in Plymouth.

[ns8401]

WB mixed freight just turned south at Plymouth. CN 3247 + CSX 5409 + 171 cars. I'm told it was Q568.

Q56810. By Romulus at 520pm.

[Saturnalia]

Something was by Michigan City a short while ago on the CSX. I presume it was eastbound since there haven’t been any Westbounds reported.

[Tom49801]

N800-10 @ 5:44pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 524 axles & 6,872 feet long. BNSF engine #6308 + #9097 & 128 loaded coal cars. They may put him into Wells siding mp CG43.3 since Riverside mp CG80.1 has the N800-09 tied down there & N801-08 is tied down inside Grand Junction siding mp CG53.9 Many thanks to K1NGxBONDx007 for going track side to confirm the engine numbers on N800-10

[Tom49801]

RN is calling the D70510 with the CSX 8887 leading. So there’s your lead engine heading west today.

As a side note, no activity for D706-10 has been heard so far today (as of 6:04pm).

[wemery]

D70510 westward through South Lyon @5:40PM. CSX 8887 & 29 providing power and 169 cars. Someone was feeling friendly!

[Micah_D]

197A9404-44FF-4D5B-BC3E-CA60D23A451E.jpegD70510 westward through South Lyon @5:40PM. CSX 8887 & 29 providing power and 169 cars. Someone was feeling friendly!

Just FYI the lady who lives across that private crossing yelled at my buddies and I for standing in that EXACT spot you were in and said “get off my property” she claimed that we were in her property and if we didn’t leave she was calling the cops. After we left we were very confused why she said that because it is clearly labeled as CSX property. Just thought I’d let you know.

Edit: I just got work from a buddy that there will be a coal train coming down the Plymouth because the Chicago line needs work. Does anyone know if this is accurate?

[BL2-1843]

D70510 westward through South Lyon @5:40PM. CSX 8887 & 29 providing power and 169 cars.

A little high on that car count. D705 had 89 cars by Howell at 6:15pm with 39 loads of stone and rip rap rock on the head end.

[Tom49801]

RN is calling the D70510 with the CSX 8887 leading. So there’s your lead engine heading west today.

As a side note, no activity for D706-10 has been heard so far today (as of 6:04pm).

At 6:47pm, finally hearing D706-10's crew starting their day in Grand Rapids.

[wemery]

D70510 westward through South Lyon @5:40PM. CSX 8887 & 29 providing power and 169 cars.

A little high on that car count. D705 had 89 cars by Howell at 6:15pm with 39 loads of stone and rip rap rock on the head end.

Oops, I heard the DD wrong, 89 is what I counted. Rookie mistake?

[Tom49801]

N800-10 @ 6:53:34pm eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 w/ BNSF engines #6308 + #9097 & 128 loaded coal cars. He will tie down inside Wells Siding mp CG43.3

[wemery]

197A9404-44FF-4D5B-BC3E-CA60D23A451E.jpegD70510 westward through South Lyon @5:40PM. CSX 8887 & 29 providing power and 169 cars. Someone was feeling friendly!

Just FYI the lady who lives across that private crossing yelled at my buddies and I for standing in that EXACT spot you were in and said “get off my property” she claimed that we were in her property and if we didn’t leave she was calling the cops. After we left we were very confused why she said that because it is clearly labeled as CSX property. Just thought I’d let you know.

Edit: I just got work from a buddy that there will be a coal train coming down the Plymouth because the Chicago line needs work. Does anyone know if this is accurate?

Maybe she didn’t see me or didn’t want to yell at the old guy

[Tom49801]

197A9404-44FF-4D5B-BC3E-CA60D23A451E.jpegD70510 westward through South Lyon @5:40PM. CSX 8887 & 29 providing power and 169 cars. Someone was feeling friendly!

Just FYI the lady who lives across that private crossing yelled at my buddies and I for standing in that EXACT spot you were in and said “get off my property” she claimed that we were in her property and if we didn’t leave she was calling the cops. After we left we were very confused why she said that because it is clearly labeled as CSX property. Just thought I’d let you know.

Edit: I just got work from a buddy that there will be a coal train coming down the Plymouth because the Chicago line needs work. Does anyone know if this is accurate?

Back on Jan 3rd, N801-03 had ran on the Grand Rapids sub-division with a mix of loaded coal cars - 10 or 12 different company designations on the cars & with different color end car markings for the rotary couplers. It went to the power plant in West Olive, Michigan (where the coal trains usually go to) & it was said they were loaded with the wrong kind of coal. This train should have gone to a power plant in Detroit & somehow got mis-routed onto the Grand Rapids sub-division. We never saw those coal cars return by Bangor & appears they have been parked at West Olive ever since. Also, since January, no loaded coal trains had been reported traveling on the Plymouth sub. Maybe, they're finally making plans to move them out of West Olive to Detroit? If so, that train would go into Grand Rapids & onto the Plymouth sub-division there.

[Micah_D]

Possibly, I was told that that a coal train from the Chicago Sub turned north at deshler instead of taking the GR sub north. I’m very unsure as to wether this info is true or not though.

[Tom49801]

N800-10 @ 7:30pm eastward, main to siding, west end of Wells mp CG43.3 to tie down with BNSF engines #6308 + #9097 & 128 loaded coal cars.

N800-10 @ 7:35pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 524 axles & 6,659 feet long.

[SW]

NB D735 cleared 9 Mile Rd in Novi. CSX 5363 + 96 cars.