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The customers will be using truck / transload long before any track is laid. The ROW appears to be compromised in several locations and bridges appear to be missing.

Besse does hardwoods and veneers. They no longer list a Newberry operation

The car in the photo is the only one that got the "fancy" MMRR logo. It was painted up for a display for Transportation Week sometime in the late 80's early 90'. The display was set up on the siding at the former SuperFoods (IGA) warehouse on Patterson Ave on CSX. I don't remember all the details an...

Pretty sure Padnos processes the scrap in GR. They have 2 big shredders in the Turner yard. The scrap that leaves by rail is shredded pretty fine compared to some of the stuff in the "piles".

It's StanDALE Lumber in Grandville, not StanDARD . The shippers sometimes get them mixed up as well.

Get me some coil car numbers and I can tell you if they are shuttling.

CSX has had the King wheat since mid 2020 at least. King will periodically pit CSX and Watco/NS against each other for the best rate. If King does consume any local wheat, its all inbound via truck. Seems like it varies where they get their wheat from, as blocks of cars from UP, BNSF, CP and variou...

Asplundh vegetation control truck on the GR today. They have a nice crop of wheat started between the ties.

G&W MOW working on the tracks at King Milling (east side of Alden Nash / Hudson). Lowell is empty of cars.

Car trace says Symington Yard

2 comments Ada is a township. There is no Village of Ada. The area across M21 from Amway is unincorporated. RailTex acquired Alpine Ave to Ionia as the result of a lawsuit over Pinkerton's acquisition of the GT trackage. Things might look different today if RailTex had been the high bidder for the G...

In Griffith IN currently

MNS warehouses frozen products in undergrounds caverns? I've heard of bulk stuff stored in underground caverns but not frozen products. That would be neat to see. The Michigan Natural Storage company off Judd St by CSX uses some of the old mining caverns to warehouse refrigerated and frozen product...

They also offer dry storage underground. One use is protection of irreplaceable records / documents. https://www.naturalstorage.com/
Plaster Creek was also the location of Plaster Creek Tower. Dispatchers were located there before Jacksonville.

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Video from last nights TC run. Looks like new gon from Beacon ITFX is in service
https://youtu.be/tL1pDJfpHLE

The gon was built 10/2019.

It looks like a pool car for Nucor

Car numbers? I may be able to trace them

You can read the CSX Public Improvement Manual on line. CSX will let the twp paint it and landscape the property, if they meet CSX requirements. All township cost, not $1 from CSX. In fact, the twp get to pay an application fee to CSX for CSX to review the plans. $10,000 IIRC.

I was part of a tour of the Campbell plant several years ago. Unit 3 which is the largest, is a base plant for the Midwest power system, it runs full power 24/365. Unit 2 is a variable load plant dialed up and down to meet the needs. Unit 1 is the smallest and is only run if needed. It also is the o...

Yes,AARR and C&O Dispatcher, they did haul beer,at least some of it in piggyback trailers on the head end. One time the train derailed the first few cars eb just after crossing the Grand River and spilled beer all over between the river and Monroe Ave. Train had 4 geeps on the headend hammering the...

My wife and I went to Perrin in Comstock Park on our first date to a restaurant in 364 days today. A good chance to scope out the concentration of MQT served industries in the industrial park! QLF had at least 10 tankcars on their spur and the run around track there. All 3 other industries in that ...