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BNSF C-BTMCXC (Coal Loads for West Olive) 05/03/24 @ 16:40:27 CDT heading east passing Red Oak, Iowa cam with BNSF #8469 + BNSF #6132 + 130 coal loads + rear nose in BNSF #5976 DPU BNSF C-BTMCXC (Coal Loads for West Olive) 05/03/24 @ 18:43:28 CDT heading east passing Creston, Iowa cam with BNSF #846...

M326-03 @ 16:53 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG44.2 Pearl, Mi with 500 axles. CSX engines #3217 + #3161 & 122 cars. M326-03 @ 17:43 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG19.1 Zeeland, Mi with 500 axles. Lots of tie gondolas up front on M326 today. Is the G090 eventually bound...

Hearing very distance train horns in the north side of Wyoming, Mi area at 1:20pm. Possibly around 28th St

Grand Elk NB at Plainwell at 12:38pm per video:
WAMX 4125 + WAMX 4190 elephant style and 50 cars, lots of potash cars and few new NCIX covered hoppers on rear end
https://youtu.be/SygzTnIMvJ4?si=3TMNM22Vv_KSLzFv

M327-02 @ 05:16 Grand Rapids, Mi mark up with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engines #985 + #439 & 77? cars (20 loads + 57? empties) @ 4,368 tons & 6,978 feet long. He’s building his train. Radio call was mostly rolling waves of static. DD19.1 report will confirm total cars. M327-02 @ 6:33am with a Medium ...

what happened to 439 that came in on yesterday's train 326? is it still in Grand Rapids? CSX 439 Spirit of Birmingham is still inside Grand Rapids Wyoming Yard with CSX 985 trailing BNSF E-CXCBTM (Coal Empties for Mines) 05/01/24 @ 14:06:00 CDT heading west passing Galesburg Cam with BNSF engine #5...

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Wed May 01, 2024 2:05 pm

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 2:04pm. WAMX 4189, 4209, and 37 cars. First half tank cars, followed by boxcars and covered hoppers. Looks like a Moline stop on the way south.

Per report on the road, Grand Elk south at Culterville at 4:16pm

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Wed May 01, 2024 11:49 am

MQT Z151-01 into Grand Rapids at ~11:30 South with BPRR 3345, MQT 2042 & MQT 3391

MQT Z151 blowing horns in GR, sounds like they are heading north

L303-01 pulling out of Wyoming Yard 12:08. 5269 and 806 L303-01 @ 12:07 Grand Rapids mark up with the RN Dispatcher with: CSX engines #5269 + #806 & 35 cars (17 loads + 18 empties) @ 2,660 tons & 1,644 feet long. He has work for Lansing - final destination is Detroit. L303-01 @ 12:18 sounding horns...

M510-30 @ 2:42am was seen on the Deshler PTZ with a CSX EMD leading, followed by 3 more CSX EMDs and MQT #3413 trailing 5/5 and over 100 cars. An all EMD train 😮 BNSF C-BTMCXC (Coal Loads for West Olive) 05/01/24 @ 09:54:06 CDT heading east passing Red Oak, Iowa cam with BNSF #9217 + BNSF #5972 (ele...

A G842-XX @ 22:29 on the Deshler Cam bound for Lincoln Yard - Wixom, MI with CSX #5360, CSX #5200 and 88 ish CSX grain cars

Marquette Rail horns heard in Grand Rapids at 9:24am, heading southbound to CSX Wyoming Yard Marquette Rail heading north out of Grand Rapids at 12pm Interesting, we saw MQT SB at just before noon at 7th and Seward. 83 cars with 8 QLF tanks on the front end, probably from QLF south of 7 Mile Rd. Od...

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Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:19 pm

L303 through Sunnyside 12:17

L303-30 @ 12:17 eastward Sunnyside Wye with NS 4099, CSX 747 (elephant style) and 81 cars

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Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:24 am

Marquette Rail horns heard in Grand Rapids at 9:24am, heading southbound to CSX Wyoming Yard

Marquette Rail heading south to Grand Rapids at 12pm

2 odd sounding horns in GR right now. 1 sounds like the Marquette Rail that is turning north at the Sunnyside Wye. Other one I don’t know

M326-30 @ 10:22 EDT currently sitting at CSX Curtis East Tracks, unknown power per ATCS

Grand Elk(?) horns heard in Grand Rapids at 9:24am, heading to CSX Wyoming Yard

On the Plymouth Sub, there’s the Thornapple Bridge where L303 and L302 crosses daily. Little bit of a drive from Lansing

46 cars…wow. As I headed west on Burton over the tracks the train was extended back into the yard near the office, so I figured it ended there. It must have been stretched much further back than I could see for that brief moment. Yeah I was thinking like 30 cars as you mentioned and then I recounte...

Thanks for the update! I’ve been waiting for this train since 6:30pm LOL😂 I do hear a faint horn in the distance at 7:26pm, somewhere at 44th St Yup, rolling SB now. Sitting on my deck and I can hear them blowing…from the angle, probably 36th or 44th. I really hope nothing tragic happens as the tra...