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Not a good start for the X209-31 out of Flint. By Howell at 145am, with approx 54 cars (228axels) and one unit (CSXT 30) met Q334-01 in Fowlerville, with X209-31 taking siding, then promptly got a drawbar on the east end of the 31st car at MP 67.0 east of Webberville. As I write, X209-31 just headin...

See the thread titled "NEW TRAIN" below this one and it will explain more than likely what happend to K357. Meanwhile, there was yet another K351 eastbound Tuesday morning.

I did not see any X095 here on Monday night Mike, and I do not believe D709-19 ever left Ensel at all either. Far as I know, those 7 cars GLC sat off for CSX last Friday morning and four others sat off earlier and moved from the run around into the transfer are still sitting at Ann Pere Tuesday afte...

No K357 coke trains anymore I guess, but we still have occasional K352/351 trains, including A K351 eastbound shortly after midnight this morning with CSX 7621 leading CSX 7897. Hopefully these trains wont die off as well, even though these ran fewer times than K357 did.

Power on the Q327-18 out of Detroit on Sunday with all the LPG cars was CSX 8356 leading and HLCX 6303 trailing. All of the cars GLC picked up last Friday at AnnPere, along with those on Q327-18 yesterday were all placarded with "1075" indicating LPG. I have heard they are all empties to which Doc v...

Q327-18 out of Detroit this afternoon had 67 cars with probably a good 60 of them LPG tank cars. If they get set out at Ensel, watch for them to come back to GLC at AnnPere too. Have been following the additional threads on the Shortline board on this subject. The cars GLC picked up from CSX on Frid...

This probably has something to do why there has been no K357 westbounds out of Detroit to Grand Rapids and Chicago for several weeks. Would be nice if the K700 traveled west too.

See anything of freshly repainted CSX GP15T 1523. Its only been out of a Huntington a few weeks at best. If anyone sees it, post a photo.

Just happened to see that Don Simon (thank you Don) had posted the above LPG tank car info to the Shortline Message Board which generated some responses. One asked if they were loads or empties. I was trying to determine that myself this morning when I walked the consist. While its obvious in most c...

GLC was Westbound on CSX out of Howell shortly after 1pm this Friday afternoon, albeit for only a mile, with the 68 cars the D909-15 brought for them on Thursday afternoon. I walked the consist this morning on the parallel gas company road to find that 38 of the 68 were LPG tanks, along with 25 grai...

I am hoping someone can trace those car numbers to find out for sure seeing there are so many and not having seen this large amount of tank cars going to GLC before. Could very well be Breckenridge. Always nice to see GLC getting new business. The cars are in three long groups and not all laced toge...

It was evidently "all in the plan" when D709-14 left behind all 19 GLC cars at Ensel Wednesday night. Thursday afternoon, they ran a D909-15 out of Ensel, an ALL GLC train, which would you believe,, consisted of 68 CARS. That would 6-8 as in Sixty Eight. They tucked them all into the Howell passing ...

Q327-15 CSX 8740 leading west at 3:30pm
X500-13 CP 8723 east at 4:25pm
D909-15 CSX 2672,2520 west (engs lite) at 4:45pm
Q335-15 CSX 8781 HLCX 6207 west at 5:00 pm

I have not seen a K357 train here in Howell yet this month but have had a couple of K352 westbounds.
Howell YM

D709-14 got out of the yard quite early on Wednesday evening, but Tammy "Stickem" the RN Disp, did just that by putting them into the Williamston pass at 934pm to meet Q327-14 who was very late out of Detroit due to no power for the train. 327s entire consist were all for Ensel (36 cars) but did hav...

TSB/GLC is probably wondering once again when they will get their cars delivered. Sunday nights D709-11 had eight cars for them but a lack of time to finish their work prevented the delivery. Then, Monday nights D709-12 had to turn at Fowlerville and not switch anyone east of there after having to w...

Only the roof section comes in via Rail and Ogihara, as I understand it, cuts a sunroof into it, and then is shipped out via truck to an assembly plant in Mississippi I believe. The Ogi operator has told me more than once that they never understood why they did not truck in the pre stamped roof asse...

Had an opportunity to speak with Ogihara people at Howell today about the upcoming closure of the Ford Wixom Plant. Ogihara has supplied Ford Wixom with the majority of stamped parts to build the Lincoln Continental ever since Ogihara came to Howell, even though this business was all by truck. With ...

N-903-11 was running on the blocks of Essexville empty E945 at Howell at 2:45am this morning untill, N903 developed air problems on the computer screen on the lead unit, BNSF 9870 (9537 trailing) as they were braking coming down the hill into AnnPere. After blocking Lucy Road forTwo hours and 30 min...

CSX SD50 8532 got painted fast if it was in DF paint. It was still YN2 when I last saw it on Jan 20th.