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by Doktor No
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - March 2024
Replies: 735
Views: 33521

Re: CSX Train Location Updates - March 2024

Over tonnage. Leave cars behind. No run train sunday. Fascinating. Gee, would not someone (yardmaster might come to mind) realize this before banging train together? I KNOW!!! Run and extra...bwahahahaha.
by Doktor No
Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Plymouth & GR sub-div Work
Replies: 95
Views: 21975

Re: Plymouth & GR sub-div Work

Saturnalia wrote:
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:22 pm
Expect the signals to be typically located at easy to reach locations like at grade crossings. Ain’t nobody got time to hyrail or walk to this stuff!
Sometimes railroad logic actually makes some sense.
by Doktor No
Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Cement Post
Replies: 13
Views: 3759

Re: Cement Post

Just south of 76th was the Block Limit Station called KARL. (For Carlisle). They had signage and a phone box there.
by Doktor No
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: CSX Signal Question
Replies: 55
Views: 16400

Re: CSX Signal Question

SMH. Although the indication is possible on all CSX lines it is not on the signal system east of GRR. Never seen it. Show me a picture of it at that location. Until then, nope. Just because it's possible in lower Ohio on a new system setup, doesn't mean it is on our OLD setup. They would have to cha...
by Doktor No
Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: CSX Signal Question
Replies: 55
Views: 16400

Re: CSX Signal Question

The square signals denote SEABOARD signals.
by Doktor No
Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:22 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - January 2024
Replies: 918
Views: 492335

Re: CSX Train Location Updates - January 2024

YOU WIN GRHC! I remember seeing FGEX insulated boxes down there in the 60's and 70's. The track was OOS when I started in 78.
by Doktor No
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - January 2024
Replies: 918
Views: 492335

Re: CSX Train Location Updates - January 2024

Tell me what the M&J lead name is for and what was the customer and what did they produce? For 100 points....
by Doktor No
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:51 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: CSX Signal Question
Replies: 55
Views: 16400

Re: CSX Signal Question

BnOEngr..I'll stand with you on this one. No such Chessie/C&O signal indication Red Red Yellow exists up here on Michigan C&O Division trackage east of Lansing. All old searchlite system signals and I ran over there for YEARS. Pulling out various C&O, Chessie and CSX rulebooks says the same. Again, ...
by Doktor No
Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Cement Post
Replies: 13
Views: 3759

Re: Cement Post

Along the old NYC right of way in Byron Center? Support for a phone box or support from something to do with rr highway crossing apparatus.
by Doktor No
Fri Dec 22, 2023 11:28 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Holiday annulments
Replies: 6
Views: 2317

Re: Holiday annulments

Why, the Christmas grinch seems to have disappeared! I must assume the new CEO had something to do with this. Well done!
by Doktor No
Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: CSX Signal Question
Replies: 55
Views: 16400

Re: CSX Signal Question

One question, new CSX or old Chessie signals? C&O/Chessie, per the rule book doesn't show a RRA signal indication. Not saying it doesn't exist. Red yellow red is slow approach.
by Doktor No
Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:03 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Plymouth & GR sub-div Work
Replies: 95
Views: 21975

Re: Plymouth & GR sub-div Work

Same with the dwarf on the GRE interchange up at Fuller. When I first started going up there in 1999ish, we called Tammy the Dispatcher one fine afternoon. She had no knowledge of that signal, wasn't on her board. From then on...fagetaboud it. We had permission to leave the switch open, do our work,...
by Doktor No
Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:34 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Plymouth & GR sub-div Work
Replies: 95
Views: 21975

Re: Plymouth & GR sub-div Work

sparrow24 wrote:
Thu Nov 02, 2023 5:03 pm
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New Verizon dish near EE South Lyon.
That's so you can dial into Spectrum and watch TV while sitting waiting for a meet. Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!?
by Doktor No
Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:04 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
Replies: 85
Views: 71485

Re: Michigan Rail business news redux

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3081914 Sure looked like a 90 footer in the pic. Must be the skewed perspective of the photo.
by Doktor No
Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:46 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
Replies: 85
Views: 71485

Re: Michigan Rail business news redux

Having a unloading track like this one is WRONG. Look at all the cars that are placarded Unload This Side Only....the customer tends to get up set when you place them anyway...so you have to turn them. Easy enough if you have a wye track handy but not if you don't. We used to turn cars in New Buffal...
by Doktor No
Sun Sep 17, 2023 12:42 pm
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Future of the Plymouth Sub/Grand Rapids Sub
Replies: 156
Views: 1277270

Re: Future of the Plymouth Sub/Grand Rapids Sub

I see some of you are an exception to my statement but others still fit it. So be it. Other than BEING THERE for 35 years and attending union meetings on occasion and conversing with people STILL IN the trenches, I stand by my assessment. Many of you are whistling in the dark or succumb to sand hous...
by Doktor No
Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:21 am
Forum: Michigan Talk
Topic: Future of the Plymouth Sub/Grand Rapids Sub
Replies: 156
Views: 1277270

Re: Future of the Plymouth Sub/Grand Rapids Sub

What is fascinating is the fact, that other than Typhoon and SD80mac, none of you really have a clue as to what you are even talking about. You are all guessing and uneducated guessing at best.
by Doktor No
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:20 pm
Forum: Model Railroading
Topic: Colorado Narrow Guage Facebook
Replies: 0
Views: 5847

Colorado Narrow Guage Facebook

https://www.jghtech.com/assets/applets/ ... WJlY33O4pM Self explanatory. From the Facebook page Colorado Narrow Guage. Beautiful stuff, all hand made.