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No change at the GRE this morning except the crew is goingt on duty.

D700 west at Hudsonville at 0823. Sounded like CSX 5354 leading but it might be 6354.

Edit: Stops at Hartford, Coloma, New Buffalo to run around, Sawyer and Livingston. The RN told them they will need to meet an N956 somewhere this morning.

GRE eastbound at Leonard/Plainfield with 8 CH's for King.

I'm standing outside shooting a house near Drenthe (64th and Adams) and I hear what appears to be a coal train heading east. It should be near Jenison in a few minutes.

n95622 grey CG 83
e94521 arrived grand rapids 2am, hasn't left west
e94522 hasn't left flint
d70022 gross CG 63
d80122 not moving
q32622 arrived grand rapids 9:30am (this is your coal train JT)
d70822 10:30 lansing departure
d70722 lake odessa working, hasn't left west from there
e94920 arrived chicago 7am
e94921 annulled
e94922 hasn't left west olive
w00122 wyman MA to Selkirk
q24122 10:30 detroit departure
q15122 11am detroit departure
q15022 noon NB departure
q27221 wick road cc93
d71022 hasn't left port huron yet for flint

E945's crew chatting around Wyoming Yard 10:05am - how did this get from Flint to GR without being reported? lolz, just kidding
CSXT 4024 on D707 done at Lake Odessa, heading west - 10:08am
D80122 at Holland westbound, N95622 at Kirk eastbound, going for a meet at Wells - 10:24am.
D70722 west at Snow Rd nearing GR 10:34am, clouding up here in Holland
Y106 eastbound Madison Ave in GR and D70722 nearing Fox west - 10:41am
E945 doing airtests at Wyoming Yard, CSXT 5105 leading
E94521 pulling down to Grandville to clear out of the yard, going to block Ivanrest for a bit while maintainers ahead of them clear.
N95622 and D80122 east through Holland 12:02pm
N956 and E94521 going to meet at Hudsonville, E945 waiting on conductor to get back to the headend after EOT problems 12:09pm
Admin at 76th st in zeeland waiting on e945. 12:32

BNSF 6434, 9450 lite power south at Riley St. Holland 10:12 AM.

E945 is putting their train together at Wyoming now. CSX 5105 is the leader.

N956 and E945 currently meeting at Hudsonville. D707 east at Godfrey at 1231.

Z151 ready to come south at Turner St. GLLX 3001 leading.

At Wyoming, N956 pulling far enough east of Ivanrest to clear the crossing. The helpers cut their air in on the train and the headend power cut off and went to the house. Headend power is/was BNSF 6119 & 6388.

Missed seeing them by about 3 minutes but D707 was through Lake Odessa eastbound at 13:25.

N956 outbound crew has brought the power back out of the house and to the west end. They should be all done with tying back on shortly. The D801 crew has been waiting onboard the helpers this whole time.

GLLX 3003/3001 NB with a healthy load of lime on the head end. By bridge St 1547

Q 150 22 by Plymouth 15:55 CSX 97 794

~Z~ wrote:E945's crew chatting around Wyoming Yard 10:05am - how did this get from Flint to GR without being reported? lolz, just kidding

Same way yesterdays N956 was not reported going east. First thing I knew about E945 coming with CSX power (7812 was trailing behind 5105) was when Q334 went into the siding at Brighton to meet him at 23:00 last night. Q334 by the way, behind BNSF 7319 leading, was CSX 476-7577, power off the X100 well storage train. Q33522 this morning had 429+8099, repeat power from a few days ago, with 126 cars, one less car than the day before.

D801 back west by Seymour at 1722.

Q321 stopped at North Holly at 17:21. CN has the diamond.

Southbound CN mixed freight clears the diamond at ~17:30.

Q321 clear Holly Diamond at 17:34, CP 8841 & CP 8504.

Twofer in Holly. What a day to forget my camera!

E94522 Essexville empty, BNSF 6193+6326 by Howell @ 17:55. Meeting N956 at Trowbridge. E945 to take siding.

Y297 just got done working Joe Brown. 2680 (?) in the lead. Has a tank car and boxcar along with it.