Shortline Train Location Updates - March 2021

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Z62724 os GH Southbound MMRR 2170 leading MMRR 2019? 7:56

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Yeah I think the 2170 might be leading
Got to go, I hear a train coming... :D

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MS Railfan wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:58 am
Yeah I think the 2170 might be leading
I am guessing he might return earlier than normal since he is running much earlier this morning
Got to go, I hear a train coming... :D

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MS Railfan wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:58 am
Yeah I think the 2170 might be leading

... I am guessing he might return earlier than normal since he is running much earlier this morning
Leslie Horn on Point, That would be 2170

Around 12 if all goes well

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Talk wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:15 am
MS Railfan wrote:
Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:58 am
Yeah I think the 2170 might be leading

... I am guessing he might return earlier than normal since he is running much earlier this morning
Leslie Horn on Point, That would be 2170

Around 12 if all goes well
Yeah, probably around 12 or 1
Got to go, I hear a train coming... :D

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Z62724 os GH MMRR 2170 leading, MMRR 2019 trailing Northbound at 11:37 am.
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I hear the MS heading back north
Got to go, I hear a train coming... :D

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Z62724 os Ferrysburg Northbound MMRR 2170 leading 2019 11:55

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Z151 north Fuller 12:45

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As of about an hour ago, there was an empty coal train sitting on the main at McGrew in Flint. I'm not sure if it's gone south since then.

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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 4:20pm with WAMX 4206, WAMX 4124, and about 25 cars.

Back south at 7:02 with WAMX 4206 and WAMX 4002, both long hood forward with 27 cars.
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 5:15pm with different locos than normal. WAMX 4209, WAMX 4225 and 13 cars.
Back at 4:30pm, SD80mac reports they were working Wayland.

Back south at 7:06pm, wamx 4225, 4209 and 28 cars. Woke me up from an after dinner nap.
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Z62726 os GH Southbound MMRR 2019 leading MMRR 2170 Trail? 9:28

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JAIL NBD at CP MA in Lansing w 2 locos and five cars - 1 CSX coil car and four boxcars - 2 ex MRL and 2 red boxcars.

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JAIL SB at CP MA w one boxcar they picked up from CN. The four boxcars they went north earlier were from CN as well.

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Grand Elk north at Byron Center at 2:41pm, WAMX 4206, WAMX 4189, and 18 cars.
Back south at 4:19pm, WAMX 4206 long hood forward with 10 cars. Left 4189 up in GR.
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Late report: at 14:30, Macatawa Bay and Terminal RR 65-ton #04491 completed their weigh of a scrap gon on the scale at Padnos, Holland and spotted the car with another load for CSX pickup on Monday. They promptly returned the venerable GE to its parking spot, set the brakes, chocked the wheels, and finished up for the weekend.

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HESR or whomever was sitting on the ex C&O track in Alma this afternoon. Had a bunch of TSBY hoppers to the east of them up the line. Snooped about Alma for awhile, found our old engine house and such. Neat to see track I was on back in 1978 still in use. Not much left up there. I see more then a few buildings with Alma Products moniker on them but they look abandoned as does the Leonard/Total Refinery grounds. Havn't been up there in years. Sad to see.
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LSRC Essexville loaded coal train at Fostoria at 2111 with a pair of BNSF Gevos. Should be to Wixom by morning.

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Doktor No wrote:
Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:09 pm
HESR or whomever was sitting on the ex C&O track in Alma this afternoon. Had a bunch of TSBY hoppers to the east of them up the line. Snooped about Alma for awhile, found our old engine house and such. Neat to see track I was on back in 1978 still in use. Not much left up there. I see more then a few buildings with Alma Products moniker on them but they look abandoned as does the Leonard/Total Refinery grounds. Havn't been up there in years. Sad to see.
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