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SW wrote:L321 just cleared 7 Mile Rd. CSX 9026 + 3202 + 107 cars.
Earlier, at 4:50, a long, loud, slow northbound cleared Northville. Scanner was garbled, perhaps it was coal.

Yeah, it was coal. Cleared South Clyde right around 9 a.m.

Northbound grain train through Newark, MI at 5:16pm. Should be coming into Grand Blanc right now. If I'm not mistaken, that was G765 (can anyone confirm?) and he was stuck at South Clyde for almost an hour due to him hitting a vehicle at Livingston Road. The driver was lucky, no injuries, just spun...

It wouldn't make sense for GM to ship any parts by rail to Orion Assembly because they barely run full production these days. The small cars that are being produced there are not in high demand by any stretch. Last I knew they were "up and down" as in, up for 2 or 3 weeks and then down for a couple ...

Yaesu FT-250 and the mobile version of the "TrainTenna" from DPD. Great reception, no negatives that I can really think of. Yaesu FT-250 - http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&ProdCatID=111&encProdID=13A355C2DE175553305DE961A0A053DD&DivisionID=65&isArchived=0 TrainTenna - http://www....

Looks good....Nice to see Conrail still alive in Lansing, even it's in 1/87 scale. If this is in the 90's then you can't call it "Fisher Body", that name was gone by then By then it was "Lansing Car Assembly - Body Plant" and what, no Lansing Craft Centre?

I'm heading down to Dooshler that Friday night if anyone is gonna be down there.

Put it this way.... there's no evidence of lineside equipment for cellular or satellite communications up this way. The antennas for ATCS are still up, I can see the one at South Clyde out the kitchen window. I haven't run ATCS lately, when I get home tonight I'll check to see if anything lights up.

ATCS is still on the Saginaw Sub up to North Clyde.

The entire line was always owned by GM? What about the other industries serviced by the railroad further down the line and those off the river? I don't think all those customers were automotive-related. Thanks for the info on the plant's history. Would you happen to know exactly when the line was c...

Off the top of my head there's 321/322 (a mix of freight, sometimes quite long of late to/from Flint), a couple of locals that switch around Wayne, Plymouth, and possibly as far north as Holly, and at least two daily autorack trains, Q216 to Philly and Q231 to Louisville that come out of Detroit. (...

That line was C&O property. It used to connect with the GTW (now HESR) at a location known as Brady Hill (named after the nearby cemetery) which is the area you described. The plant that is located between Genesee and Cumberland was formerly Delphi which had major presence in Saginaw throughout the...

Tentatively scheduled OT for Flint Truck, I'll see if I can get the weekend off.

Southbound military train clearing South Clyde @ 17:35.... did not catch the symbol.

I plan on being there. We are scheduled to work that Saturday but I'm gonna blow a personal day Getting paid time and a half to railfan and have some cold beverages sounds good to me

I will land in Dooshler on that Friday night also.

2004 Ford Focus - 4
2003 Chevy Venture - 6
2016 Chevy Traverse - 6 (not technically ours but it will reside here 95% of the time)

Craftsman lawn mower - 1
Ryobi string trimmer - 1

Total of 18

I'm not here as much as I used to be, but here's an updated version.....

The Hat Photo by Michael Broadwater, on Flickr

That was for Friday and before they scheduled the Saturday.

I'm not gonna make it down, working the 20th. Maybe in the spring

While we were up in Munising the week of the 4th, CN ran one train early on that Thursday morning and that was the only train I heard from the Wed-Mon. we were up there. A couple of tank cars sitting outside of the paper mill were the only rail cars I saw the whole time.

HEY JT - WE WILL BE GOING TO THE RAIL . SHOULD BE INTERESTING AS MOST OF THE REGULARS THERE CAN'T EVEN PRONOUNCE THE NAMES OF THE SNOB BEERS THAT YOU DRINK. :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: It's ok JT, he's always referred to me as a beer snob too. It's too bad... I'll have to go a weekend without g...