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Mid Michigan eb with a loaded beam car almost to 127 at 1400

GRE westward thru Ada with 9 covered hoppers.

JAIL went down the Baker Spur (Quality Dairy Spur) yesterday and picked up more gons full of scrap metal from Reid Machinery as they continue to clean up w the high prices of scrap.

dave989 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:19 pm

GRE westward thru Ada with 9 covered hoppers.

Lowell has a lot of hoppers in town again. CP (SOO), DME, and BNSF today. Some along the old GTW, probably empties.

INER arrived at Coldwater at 0825 from Hillsdale with 2 cars behind GP7u #2216. They are going to spend the morning working Coldwater industries, then head back to Hillsdale, grab some more cars and the #3084, and head south. GP9 #1602 tied up at Jay Street spur today.

Their work included setting out one empty tank for corn oil loading on the spur just west of the depot, this is a new business from The Anderson’s facility in Albion; the loads are heading to Louisiana. The other car was a load set out at the Plastics plant just west of Jay Street. Their pickups included 2 tankcars from the Darling plant, 2 covered hoppers from the plastics place, and one tank at load of corn oil, before heading east around 11am.

On the way, they picked up 3 loaded scrap gons at Omnisource in Jonesville, for a new consist total of 8. At Hillsdale, the 2216 went over the wye and tied on to SD40-2 #3084, which would now be leading heading south. We caught them again near Bankers Lake and Wigent Road before cutting off the chase. They were hoping to get to Fremont and do any work there before the end of the day. Rainy and cloudy, but a fun chase day!

Grand Elk was north through Byron Center approx 8:45pm. Looked like two WAMX black locos, GMTX 2204, and about 60 cars. Quite a few autoracks spread throughout the train. Anyone have any insight what the cars are doing coming up here?

back south at 11:30pm, WAMX 3531 followed by 2 locos and about 30 cars.

Thank you for the detailed report

GP30M4216 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:59 am

Their work included setting out one empty tank for corn oil loading on the spur just west of the depot, this is a new business from The Anderson’s facility in Albion; the loads are heading to Louisiana....and one tank at load of corn oil, before heading east around 11am.

Z, from what I understand the autoracks are being stored in Hughart yard.

HESR 2144/HESR 2145 on the 815 job preparing to depart Saginaw w 75 car long windmill blade train for Bayport.

Has anyone ever seen towers on these trains or are those trucked in?

JAIL is NB in Mason w five coil cars for RSDC in Holt. 1751/1758 w 1751 facing NB for the first time in a while.

KC8RBK wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:04 pm

Mid Michigan eb with a loaded beam car almost to 127 at 1400

That car came AA/ GLC / MMRR to Bear. An unusual routing. Most come from the east thru Paines.

Raildudes dad wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:15 pm

KC8RBK wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 14, 2021 2:04 pm

Mid Michigan eb with a loaded beam car almost to 127 at 1400

That car came AA/ GLC / MMRR to Bear. An unusual routing. Most come from the east thru Paines.

Not too unusual. There's usually a steady stream from either direction.

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 9:48pm. Two locos and 35ish cars.
At 11pm, wifey says she thinks grand elk is working L&W supply area at 36th St and Eastern Ave.
Back south sometime around 12:15am.

Still a lot of hoppers being unloaded in Lowell and looked like another line of hoppers at Ann Street tonight for the EB GRE tomorrow. About half were dark green, with different markings than usual. Too old to remember them without writing them down!

GP30M4216 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:59 am

Their work included setting out one empty tank for corn oil loading on the spur just west of the depot, this is a new business from The Anderson’s facility in Albion; the loads are heading to Louisiana. The other car was a load set out at the Plastics plant just west of Jay Street. Their pickups included 2 tankcars from the Darling plant, 2 covered hoppers from the plastics place, and one tank at load of corn oil, before heading east around 11am.

Is that the only customer currently using the new transload site?

I heard GRE leave Lowell right now. Been there for a couple hours at least. I will check later to see what they left.

Plannerdad wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:49 pm

I heard GRE leave Lowell right now. Been there for a couple hours at least. I will check later to see what they left.

Brought out ~15 hoppers, 6 or 7 green DJTX cars, in Lowell. Another ~15 along the GTW main S. O. town.

Yellow Sperry truck north through Byron Center on GDLK at 4:23pm. No GDLK ran through yesterday.

Grand elk north through Byron Center at 6:22pm. Wamx 4125, wamx 4189 and 42 cars.

Grand Elk heading south out of GR, blowing at 36th St at 10:29pm.

44th at 10:31
54th at 10:33

Right-o JT. South through Byron Center at 10:49pm. WAMX 4189 leading, likely 4125 trailing, about 35ish cars.