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Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:51 pm

lighthouse wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:47 pm

Tom can you please clean up my post I was just trying to correct my typos I’m sorry

I can't do that, but, you can delete by clicking onto the red X next to the Pencil icon, if you don't see the X, click the pencil icon and edit.

FWIW, you can always edit a post (unless the thread gets locked), but you can only delete a post if you were the last reply.

@lighthouse no worries on the posting thing, I mean it mostly as a suggestion at convention, I'd rather have them all separate than not at all and mean you no inconvenience! I should have been more explicit that I was just pointing out convention than demanding a change. I'm floored to have more Holland updates - perhaps we may yet be able to track down Hamilton trains on here

D708-19 arrived Ann Pere at 5:30pm, parked 65 cars on the main for GLC and currently in the siding picking up 71 cars GLC left there at 03:00 this morning. Taking them to Brighton as usual to run around them, and then back to Lansing. Stayed turned for another important message from Lighthouse.

Saturnalia wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:08 pm

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:51 pm

lighthouse wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:47 pm

Tom can you please clean up my post I was just trying to correct my typos I’m sorry

I can't do that, but, you can delete by clicking onto the red X next to the Pencil icon, if you don't see the X, click the pencil icon and edit.

FWIW, you can always edit a post (unless the thread gets locked), but you can only delete a post if you were the last reply.

@lighthouse no worries on the posting thing, I mean it mostly as a suggestion at convention, I'd rather have them all separate than not at all and mean you no inconvenience! I should have been more explicit that I was just pointing out convention than demanding a change. I'm floored to have more Holland updates - perhaps we may yet be able to track down Hamilton trains on here

If we could finally track down trains going to/from Hamilton that would be awesome!!

D706-19 currently taking its 77 car train through the siding at Howell at 7:05 PM around the 65 cars parked on the main. 3451+9015 on the head end. This in turn is delaying D708 a good hour in the siding at Brighton waiting for D706 before they run around their train and head back west through the Howell siding as well on thier way back to Lansing. Have heard nothing from GLC yet.

19:45 - D706-19 eastbound called clear WE South Lyon.
Green Oak DD at CH39.1 said 320 axles, 4808 feet. 77 cars.

19:49 - D708-19 westbound called clear WE Brighton.

Amtrak P370-19 @ 21:05 eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 306 feet long. IDTX engine #4632 & 3 SuperLiner cars.

Amtrak P370-19 @ 21:42 eastward reported by the DD mp CG66.2 with 16 axles & 312 feet long.

sparrow24 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:31 pm

19:49 - D708-19 westbound called clear WE Brighton.

Through East Lansing at 21:52

Amtrak P370-19 @ 21:48:15 eastward Bangor’s Division St crossing cam mp CG60.93 with IDTX engine #4632 & 3 SuperLiner cars (0 passengers On/Off at the station mp CG60.5)

JBaxter wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:29 pm

If we could finally track down trains going to/from Hamilton that would be awesome!!

Did the camera not face the Hamilton Branch? Always easy to tell if they are going down if they have hoppers in their train.

MQT1223 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:19 am

JBaxter wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:29 pm

If we could finally track down trains going to/from Hamilton that would be awesome!!

Did the camera not face the Hamilton Branch? Always easy to tell if they are going down if they have hoppers in their train.

There are customers in Holland proper on the Hamilton brach that get covered hoppers, so that alone is not a dead giveaway that they’re going all the way to Hamilton.

MQT1223 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:19 am

JBaxter wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:29 pm

If we could finally track down trains going to/from Hamilton that would be awesome!!

Did the camera not face the Hamilton Branch? Always easy to tell if they are going down if they have hoppers in their train.

There is a cam view of the Hamilton Branch at the Holland Depot at the bottom of the screen & the "Wide West" preset gives a better view. Preset selections last only 1 minute & the cam site has to be closed out & re-opened since it expires every 10 minutes. If you just refresh the site instead of closing out, the presets won't work. There is no rewind feature to look back for trains that have already gone by. So, basically, you hope to hear a radio call in advance or you sit there refreshing the site every 10 minutes while waiting.

N800-18 between 04:58/05:28 eastward was reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 528 axles & 6,909 feet long. BNSF engine #9137 & 128 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5821. He went into Kirk siding mp CG72.3 & tied down.

lighthouse wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:40 am

Amtrak P371-20 mp CG20.67 @ O6:40

Amtrak P371-20 @ 06:38 westward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 16 axles & 309 feet long. IDTX engine #4632 & 3 SuperLner cars.

lighthouse wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:47 am

Saturnalia wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:28 am

MQT1223 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:19 am

Did the camera not face the Hamilton Branch? Always easy to tell if they are going down if they have hoppers in their train.

There are customers in Holland proper on the Hamilton brach that get covered hoppers, so that alone is not a dead giveaway that they’re going all the way to Hamilton.

The only customers in the Holland/Zeeland area that I know of that still receive covered hoppers of grain or feed are the Endeavor facility in Hamilton Vandenbosch feeds in Zeeland and possibly the Endeavor facility north of Holland on US 131…. My question is to anybody who reads this post is where does the CSX trackage on the Hamilton branch end and where does the Endeavor owned trackage begin. Hamilton farm bureau purchase most of the line in the very late 80s … FYI they switch out the plant using a frontend loader

I don’t recall anyone minus the co-op in Hamilton gets hoppers down there on the Branch unless Sherwin-Williams does at some point. I’ve only seen them get tank cars. Then there is lumbermans which needs no explanation. Everytime in my experience they’ve had covered hoppers when they go down the Branch it’s to go to Hamilton.

That loader is wrecking havoc on the ties in the plant too, deep ruts everywhere. Wonder the last time a locomotive switched any of that out.

From what I understand the ownership transfers from CSX to the Bureau underneath the 196 overpass. One time I’ll have to go down there to see if there’s any signage.

Q327-20 @ 07:13 Grand Rapids job briefing with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engine #843 & 142 cars (40 loads + 102 empties) & rear dpu CSX engine #8906. He's on the move westward.

Amtrak P371-20 @ 07:14 westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 16 axles & 298 feet long. IDTX engine #4632 & 3 SuperLiner cars.

Amtrak P371-20 @ 07:31:11 westward Bangor’s Center St cam crossing mp CG60.35 (2 passengers On at the station mp CG60.5)

lighthouse wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:55 am

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:19 am

Q327-20 @ 07:13 Grand Rapids job briefing with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engine #843 & 142 cars (40 loads + 102 empties) & rear dpu CSX engine #8906. He's on the move westward.

Amtrak P371-20 @ 07:14 westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 16 axles & 298 feet long. IDTX engine #4632 & 3 SuperLiner cars.

Amtrak P371-20 @ 07:31:11 westward Bangor’s Center St cam crossing mp CG60.35 (2 passengers On at the station mp CG60.5)

Q327-20 mp CG20.67 @ 07:54 …DPU is mid train

Q327-20 @ 07:54 westward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 584 axles & 8,110 feet long. CSX engine #843 + mid dpu CSX engine #8906 & 143 total cars. That's 1 car more than what he had stated in his job briefing.
Thank you for the dpu location, Lighthouse

Amtrak P371-20 @ 08:21 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 305 feet long. IDTX engine #4632 & 3 SuperLiner cars.

Q327-20 @ 08:45 westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 584 axles & 7,897 feet long. CSX engines #843 + mid dpu #8906 & 143 total cars.

Q327-20 @ 09:10 westward Bangor's W. Monroe St crossing cam mp CG60.72 (he had 32 empty coal cars behind the mid DPU).

Q327-20 @ 09:24 westward reported by the DD mp CG66.2 with 591 axles (+7 error) & 8,102 feet long.

D706-20 @ 09:28 is starting to build his train in Grand Rapids with CSX engines #5220 + #5452 (talk of setting off 2 cars in Lansing & picking up 100 - not sure if Rouge was kidding him or not about picking up 100 cars).

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:23 am

Q327-20 @ 09:10 westward Bangor's W. Monroe St crossing cam mp CG60.72 (he had 32 empty coal cars behind the mid DPU).

If i'm not mistaken, Those empty coal cars came from storage on the Michigan Shore

Talk wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:03 am

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:23 am

Q327-20 @ 09:10 westward Bangor's W. Monroe St crossing cam mp CG60.72 (he had 32 empty coal cars behind the mid DPU).

If i'm not mistaken, Those empty coal cars came from storage on the Michigan Shore

I had heard yesterday there are still 51 of those cars left.

Q327-20 @ 10:23 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 584 axles & 8,044 feet long. CSX engines #843 + mid dpu #8906 & 143 total cars.

D706-20 @ 10:35 Grand Rapids job briefing with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engines #5220 + #5452 & 30 cars (21 loads + 9 empties). He has work at Lansing: 2 set offs and "a large pickup" - maybe Rouge wasn't kidding earlier when he had told them they have 100 cars to pickup. He's on the move eastward reporting from Plaster Creek mp CGT 2.0 @ 10:38