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NS put a ton of money building the Bellevue yard and the Hump on a very busy yard. Not sure what the thinking was to close the Hump. I know that is a bottleneck getting trains in the yard in the past but not rail traffic has slowed some. However NS like other large rail companies are hauling longer...

Thats what 36 track was for. Not that the cars were lost, they were in 36 track after all...it was...where does this one go and when did it get here. It usually just took the effort of someone to do its past history and find the LAST LOGICAL input and then one could usually find out what you needed ...

Same happens with the Holland yard job. I asked the engineer this past weekend about how they communicate with Rouge and get their paperwork. He said they don't. The cars that arrive are entered and then the cars requested by customers comes and on to printer it goes and VIOLA! Our work for the day....

Yes, There's NO plan to start the plant up any time soon. Clueless IMHO. https://oilprice.com Get some information and then....the price of oil determines when production goes up and it is going UP and fracking is going up and pumping oil is UP. Nothing changes the law of supply and demand come nov...

Jetlink wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:21 am

I''ll likely be in the area next week. Perhaps I can check it out and post a report.

Divert to TVC and come in low....should work fine.

Snoop the internet. Try the CSX Grain Partners. Standish is one and there are other Michigan customers on line.

Try CSX Grain Express in your google search. You probably won't be disappointed.

SHEPUF! Used to be a billboard and on every train bulletin. Start Helping Everyone Put UNBELIVEABLE First. Well no, something else but it was absurd. If I find the framed pic I purloined from the engine house....

CSX must have a department dedicated to changing train symbols :roll: Like many big companies, they change what can easily be changed, the stuff that really needs to be changed being obfuscated... they hope. EXACTLY! My god, the stuff they used to put up around the system to RALLY THE TROOPS were a...

Stand all day? I CAN'T STAND IT!

Ethylene oxide. We used to get it for some greenhouses over in the West Olive area. I believe they parked them at the runaround out on the main south of the Consumers Energy switch..in greater downtown West Olive. But that was more than a few years ago. It's used as a ripening agent...for one applic...

2021 4,607, 312 tons and a carload runs about 110 tons that gets you 41,884 coal cars inbound and divide that by 130 cars you get 322.18 trains to West Olive per year.

EVEN the officers on scene cannot speculate. The Chief or man in charge could but that doesn't mean they would. No one sticks their collective necks out anymore and for good reason. Notice on MLive and other news/tv sites they don't put up pics of the crash or the cause of the fire anymore...(it's s...

They did say that "It was unconfirmed as to what caused the stoppage." They can't say what the don't know for sure. Doing otherwise is foolish but sometimes they do it and get called out for it. (as they probably should) Now a 'daze' people get upset if you show a picture of the car in a crash...."M...

PARK IT AT FOX FER GOD"S SAKES...What is the point of going into town? The crew should have just STOPPED out there...make a command decision for crip's sakes....
And I would probably be fired by now anyway. There is no logic anymore.

Who is getting the tanks at Ann Street? The MQT customer up at Alpine or the feed additive conglomeration that got booted from CSX bids that's up east of Cedar Springs on Stout?

The Punkin Vine was the Wabash line from Montpelier to Gary.

rail_watcher wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:31 am

I know Mark D. was horrible with railfans while he was in charge of ADBF. I don't know anything about Mr. Bagwell, but do y'all think they will be a little more railfan friendly under this new ownership?

Understatement of the year IMHO!