Shortline Updates - December 2021

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LSRC Flint today...#127 is currently in Coldwater Yard working on it's southbound train. There is an empty LSRC #388 coal train setting head end at Carpenter road, with 3 LSRC units, leader is the #1174. #Y-110 switching out cars.

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bluewonderrails wrote:
Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:26 am
JAIL arrived at Ensel Yard at 10:19. #1758 solo + 6 boxcars
Lined to go south at Cedar at 14:31. 1758 solo. They worked CSX and CN and Padnos.

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Re: Shortline Updates - December 2021

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GDLK departed Plainwell for points north at 2:50 after working Otsego. Power was 4124 and, I think, 4125. About 16ish cars mostly tank with a few CHs and what looked like a few coil steel. My view through the trees from a moving vehicle was not ideal.
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Thanks for the note Jim. Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 4:44pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4125, and 16 cars right on the money. Same deal, mostly tank cars, 4 steel coil cars, and a few covered hoppers mixed in.
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Is Plainwell where the paper plant is? If they worked the plant where are the box cars, they would have picked up?
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Thanks for the note Jim. Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 4:44pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4125, and 16 cars right on the money. Same deal, mostly tank cars, 4 steel coil cars, and a few covered hoppers mixed in.
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AARR wrote:
Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:52 pm
Is Plainwell where the paper plant is? If they worked the plant where are the box cars, they would have picked up?
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Thanks for the note Jim. Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 4:44pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4125, and 16 cars right on the money. Same deal, mostly tank cars, 4 steel coil cars, and a few covered hoppers mixed in.
The mill is on the old LS&MS line in Otsego that branches off the Grand Elk main in Plainwell. Often times if the cars are not bound for CSX, they will leave the cars they pull from the mill in the runaround in Plainwell to pick up on their way back south, rather than drag them up to Grand Rapids and back.
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SD80MAC wrote:
Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:36 pm
AARR wrote:
Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:52 pm
Is Plainwell where the paper plant is? If they worked the plant where are the box cars, they would have picked up?
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Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:44 pm
Thanks for the note Jim. Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 4:44pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4125, and 16 cars right on the money. Same deal, mostly tank cars, 4 steel coil cars, and a few covered hoppers mixed in.
The mill is on the old LS&MS line in Otsego that branches off the Grand Elk main in Plainwell. Often times if the cars are not bound for CSX, they will leave the cars they pull from the mill in the runaround in Plainwell to pick up on their way back south, rather than drag them up to Grand Rapids and back.
I haven't known them to take them north in a good long time. They don't bother with the runaround track usually, they just leave them on the LS&MS and grab them on the way back south. Several weeks ago they didn't return on a Friday, so something came up from Kalamazoo and got them on a Saturday.
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GRE left another line of mostly BNSF hoppers in Lowell. May have been the ones south of town, but too cold and dark to check!

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Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 11:07pm. WAMX 4125, a 2nd loco, and 38ish cars. Many tank cars, a few covered hoppers, and 2 empty centerbeams near the rear.
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 1:54pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4125, and 2 covered hoppers.

Back south at 5:01pm. WAMX 4125, WAMX 4124, and 12 cars (8 covered hoppers and 4 steel coil cars on the rear)
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15:14 - HESR Job 702 pulls onto the PH Wye at Durand before backing into the yard.
16:45 - HESR Job 701 backs onto the PH Wye at Durand before heading back to Saginaw.

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Z627-08 os GH Southbound MMRR 2170 leading. 09:18.
Back North 14:30
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HESR backing onto M1 at Durand before they leave at 17:19

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Looks like LSRC or maybe early CSX EB on the flint sub at Belsay headed onto home trackage.

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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 11:29am. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4125, and 34 cars. A good mix of tank cars, covered hoppers, boxcar cars, and a few steel coil cars.
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Approx 1:30pm, sounded like GRE was westbound through Grand Rapids, heard around the Diamond Ave crossing.
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Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 4:12pm. WAMX 4125, WAXM 4124, and 56 cars. Mix of tank cars, covered hoppers and boxcars, one steel coil car thrown in.
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~Z~ wrote:
Thu Dec 09, 2021 4:14 pm
Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 4:12pm. WAMX 4125, WAXM 4124, and 56 cars. Mix of tank cars, covered hoppers and boxcars, one steel coil car thrown in.
I saw it at 54th st and chased it to 100th. Do they always stop and proceed at the 54th st crossing?

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ADBF/JAIL update

North at CP Cedar at 9:10

Currently in Ensel Yard. 1751 is hooked up to a lone scrap gone while 1758 is picking up interchange cars from CSX.

Looks like a run to Friedland on the Old Town Spur today

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MMRR #2019 Leads Z627-10 Southbound, Airline Rd. & E. Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts.
(Heard by horn, No Visual)

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