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You beat me to it. Just watched a clip on FB of the three leasers making their way to Durand. Anyone know if the LSRC will be replacing them with something? Seems like they will need the extra power in the next year or so.

12Bridge wrote:There is a cut of CSX stone cars on the East end of the yard in Kalamazoo today.

Scrap cars for MSO

I noticed the coke cars the GDLK is delivering to the MSO seem to be staying in White pigeon. There were five of them on the old wye spur and two more on the inbound track. Who ever is receiving them is getting quite a few.

What is interesting is the Google Maps image of Riga Jct. There is a train on the IORY in the maps image. The train is actually split in two in this picture. South of the interchange are 10 cars, which I presume are headed north to Flat Rock for interchange with CN. North of / on the interchange sw...

Yeah about half the powerwas down at onepoint. Stone trains will have through power

Watched a video of a Great Lakes train leaving Cadillac with cars loaded with pulp wood. Anyone know whose shipping it?

Super Chief wrote:NS SD40-2 3367 leading 4209 & 4206 north at Schoolcraft this afternoon. Must be a replacement for tipped over one 4125. Long train and one still.sitting at Park but no power.

4206 took a crap so 3367 was used to get the train out.

4209 and another SD unit hooked onto the 4225 and pulled it and the string of cars off the Otsego line this afternoon around 3:00 pm. Conductor jumped off to align the switch back to the main after the train cleared and continued south. Conductor then jumped into a pickup and left. I picked up my g...

No. ok all i need to know[/quote] The best move the railroads could have done to head off PTC is to treat their employees as humans. And a big part of that would be to give their employees a regular shift schedule. [/quote] Most crews do have a schedule. Those that don't are on the extra board. Tra...

DaveO wrote:

Waddy wrote: You ever worked for a railroad before?

No.

ok all i need to know

Personally, I would eliminate the current crew calling system. These are people, not robots. Why can't the train crew have regular, unchanging, established shifts? That goes great with the in-vogue precision railroading the some rail whiz-bangs and wall street promote. You ever worked for a railroa...

Makes sense its only about one car a week maybe in big of IFRX hoppers.
(and yes it is coke not coal)

Been noticing GDLK delivering cars of coke to MSO anyone know whose getting them?

MSchwiebert wrote:Construction of the transload facility in Napoleon is well underway. This facility is what enabled the ND&W to take the line from just west of the crossing of US6/24 to Liberty Center out of service.

any idea what business will use it?

LAL was the best she always kept us moving.

That google image is from 2015...
But looking at their website the mill does not have rail.

Does GDLK have a second local crew working the south end of the railroad? I came across the 4017 and 4009 in Bristol IN last night with a very 501 looking train. I'm used to seeing 501 head south in the morning following 302. Also made my first police contact of 2018. A MSP Trooper reminded me to u...

Well i work for a railroad and i have seen on a couple different occasions where buses have stoped and still gone through flashing lights. I can guarantee you that had i been close enough to get the information i needed i would of turned them in.

DaveO wrote:

Waddy wrote:Bus driver was fires

A certain photographer better find another bridge because the one he was on got burned to the ground.

Trust me, drivers talk with each other when someone is out on a witch hunt.

I accept the Superintendents position.

What do you mean witch hunt? The driver broke the law.

Bus driver was fires