CSX GRE Train Location Update 10-30-07

[Raildudes dad]

All quiet at the GRE. The usual Amtrak, that's it - no outbound or inbound cars last night on the way home. UST is carpooling from there again. Got a report that another PV will be visiting Coopersville before the end of theyear - can't remember which one this morning (CRS )

[Tlout]

Light power headed up to Consumers power plant at approx. 6:50 AM.

[SW]

N956 coal train NB thru Northville at 8:10 am

[SteveHiuzenga]

He passed Waverly about 6:40. The problem with that was that 326 was in the siding and had pulled up to Lakewood but didn't get the signal until 7, which meant Waverly Road was blocked for at least 20 minutes...what a mess that created!

[~Z~]

Hmm...something must be up with my lookup source...
Says N95629 is leaving Chicago as of 8am, but I heard N95629 getting ready to leave Wyoming yard.
I also wonder what northville Steve saw at Northville this morning..another N956? any idea on the engine numbers on that N956 you saw northville steve?

Steve, that was actually D700 in the waverly siding, as q326 was already into GR at that time.

N95630, N90330 - at Chicago
CP X50029 - HELPER MI CG 37 10-30-2007 08:58
Q32630 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-30-2007 06:30
Q33430 - SIBLEY ROAD MI CC 103 10-30-2007 08:42
Q33530 - ERIE MI CCA125 10-30-2007 09:03
E94928 - at West Olive (sounded like D80130 was going to pull empties right now)
D80229 - PLASTER CREEK MI CGT 1 10-30-2007 03:40
D70029 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-30-2007 07:31
Amtrak P37130 - GRAND JCT MI CG 54 10-30-2007 08:58
K91029 - at Chicago (Chicago to GR loaded stone)

[SW]

If not N956 then what was it? Good question. I live about 1/2 mile from the tracks but can't see them. But loaded coal trains are unmistakeable by their sound. There is a slight uphill grade from Plymouth to Northville, and loaded coal trains can be heard for up to 15-20 minutes or more as they groan northward from Plymouth, and I hear the horns as they cross Meade Rd (just south of 6 Mile), 7 Mile Rd, Baseline (8 Mile), and 9 Mile Rd. I just assumed it was 956 since it was in Chicago yesterday.

Since it looks like I may have erred in judgment, I'll post only what I physically see from now on.

[Tlout]

X500 past Holland Depot 9:18 AM.

D80130 south at Riley St. 9:26 AM. Will head to Grand Junction - scheduled to meet cab for crew at 10:00 AM.

[CAT345C]

Steve, CSX has been sending more coal trains to Flint, heres a few pics of them in Plymouth, one day I caught a meet tween a south bound empty and a northbound load on 9/16/2007

I thought somebody told me they went towards Port Huron to build up a stock pile, and that they only occured every other year.


The south bound empties

These are some of then newest hoppers I've ever seen, prolly only a month or two old, I could see a tranluslent refecltion in them still.

[~Z~]

Q32630 - SUNNYSIDE PLEASNT S MI CGT 0 10-30-2007 11:53
Q32730 - set to leave Detroit at 2pm
Q33430 - WALBRIDGE TOWER OH CTT 67 10-30-2007 11:49
Q33530 - NEWBURGH MI CC 89 10-30-2007 12:17
D80130 - NEW BUFFALO MI CG 115 10-30-2007 12:10 (hmm..didn't change symbols)
N95629 - 75TH STREET TCS IL DC 24 10-30-2007 08:36
CP X50029 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-30-2007 09:50
N90330 - at Chicago
K91029 - at CHicago

Northville Steve - don't worry about the misspost..just let us know that you heard a northbound coal if you aren't sure on the symbol.

Jon Hall - was the empty coal train heading east out of Wyoming Yard this morning E956 did you say? Can't find it...any locomotive IDs or car IDs?

[donnieland]

hi zack

the empties jon saw headed east this morning were from n901's loads to the plant sunday, went by east waverly between 200 to 600am this morning headed for wyoming. they would be a e444, e445, or e446 out of wyoming for walbridge i believe.

[J T]

hi zack

the empties jon saw headed east this morning were from n901's loads to the plant sunday, went by east waverly between 200 to 600am this morning headed for wyoming. they would be a e444, e445, or e446 out of wyoming for walbridge i believe.

Apparently the crew and both dispatchers didn't get the memo this morning. They were known as N956 as they left GR.

[~Z~]

N95629 - LIVINGSTON MI CG 98 10-30-2007 17:04
CP X50029 - EAST END ODESSA MI CH 117 10-30-2007 17:10 (gregg's gonna miss it)
Q32630 - PLYMOUTH HI RAIL MI CC 81 10-30-2007 17:15
Q32730 - SOUTH LYON MI CH 36 10-30-2007 17:50 (might go by Trowbridge same time as X500 Gregg...)
Q33530 - ELMDALE MI CH 130 10-30-2007 17:47
K91029 - CHICAGO IL DD 2 10-30-2007 17:01 (on the move)
N90330 - at Chicago
D80230 - was annulled, now - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-30-2007 17:00
D80330 - called for 9pm

[Tlout]

Y121 just headed north towards North Harlem.

[CAT345C]

Zack, can you trace CSX 7333, I've been told it was north bound on CSCX coal cars at Middle River at 408pm

[~Z~]

Well lookie there, there was an N95630 that ran today out of GR.

N95630 - FLINT MI CC 35 10-30-2007 18:11

Mike, your CSXT 7333 was on it. Left GR at 9:50am... guess I wasn't on drugs, just wasn't showing in da search.

N95630 ran in front of N95629, which is still in Livingston.

[J T]

Here's your 7333, Mike:




Zack, all you had to do is ask and I would have told you it was 956-30.

[BL2-1843]

Don't have a clue what the score is on N956-30 but it was a 100 car EMPTY train going to Flint from Grand Rapids. (0-100) 2161 tons, 5571 length Have never seen an N956 empty train before and it had the eastern cscx cars as well, not the western powder river cars.

[JTS]

Back on July 22nd I ran a 95 car eastern empty train E945 from GR to Flint for storage on the SBS. This is a customer requested move. How long they will store the cars I'm not sure of, but this N956 today is the second such train that I've seen sent to the SBS for storage.

[SDavey]

So then this would have been the train of CSCX cars coming into Saginaw last night with the LSRC 5921. Also, there are still western coal hoppers being stored in the HESR in Bay City. They have been there since the switch back to SBS occured about a month or two ago.