Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2022

[LansingRailFan]

Hesr 702 job toned desk 8 to access the PH Wye in Durand at 14:55

[~Z~]

Grand elk North through Byron Center at 3:24pm. Wamx 4125, 4124 and approx 24 cars.

Back south with same power at 5:57pm, about 25 cars with mostly boxcars.

[LansingRailFan]

Jail went back power light today from Ensel, presumably leaving all the cars there for the night crew to work.

[Jim_c]

Grand elk North through Byron Center at 3:24pm. Wamx 4125, 4124 and approx 24 cars.

Back south with same power at 5:57pm, about 25 cars with mostly boxcars.

I can hear them in Plainwell both EOT and horn at this very moment (9:29PM).

[LansingRailFan]

LSRC 117 job heading south is nearing Bridgeport with a grain train from Paines.
LSRC 6355, LSRC 6354 and all CSX cars.
The train heading straight to Novi.

[KC8RBK]

LSRC 117 job heading south is nearing Bridgeport with a grain train from Paines.
LSRC 6355, LSRC 6354 and all CSX cars.
The train heading straight to Novi.

not sure if its the same movement but theyre crossing the cn at Kearsley currently 1430

[Talk]

sounds like Z627-09 is in Grand Haven, Michigan. MMRR 2019 leading MMRR 2170 should be trailing. Southbound 09:19. They were Elephant Style in North Yard on Sunday.

[jadamczyk]

Just curious. What does Z627 haul. I see it's always tanks & short hoppers. Is it sand perhaps??

[LansingRailFan]

JAIL last night went SB to Jackson/interchange with NS. Took 8 cars with them, 2 NS gondolas (rebar), 1 2-bay hopper (sand), 4-5 tanker cars and 8-9 NS/CR coil cars.

When they returned they worked RSDC/Michigan Packaging.

Train is built for an overnight run tomorrow to CSX and CN. No daylight run to Lansing today.

Down in Adrian, the ADBF handed off another loaded grainer from the MAC in Blissfield. They are expecting an empty grainer today as well.

Grain prices thru the roof between poor yield in western prairie and this mess in Ukraine.

EDIT: - the NS empty grainer to ADBF is NS train 41N. Power is: NS 4186/NS 9625 for the Adrian one and it’s coupled together with a empty grainer for INER. It’s power for that train, right now the mid-DPU set, is NS 4085/NS 9746.

[LansingRailFan]

HESR 810 job, shuttle job for ZFS with HESR 3509/HESR 2026/HESR 3390 backing into Durand Yard using the Port Huron Wye at 13:15 with 55 loads for ZFS out of Brown City.

HESR 702 job is approaching Flushing Hill SB into Durand with HESR 3484/HESR 3414

[AARR]

My cousin, who farms in mid-Michigan, says it takes hours for ZFS to empty trucks and the farmers don't like waiting that long. This may explain why ZFS is getting shuttle trains of inbound soybean loads.

HESR 810 job, shuttle job for ZFS with HESR 3509/2 others backing into Durand Yard using the Port Huron Wye at 13:15 with 55 loads for ZFS out of Brown City.

[~Z~]

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 3:57pm. WAMX 4125, WAMX 4124, and 52 cars. Mostly covered hoppers with some tank cars. Of note was a lumber car at the front, and a NS Scale Test car about 16 back.

[Talk]

Just curious. What does Z627 haul. I see it's always tanks & short hoppers. Is it sand perhaps??

Sand In the 2 Bay Hoppers and mixed Chemicals in the tanks... every so often there is lumber in either a boxcar or a Centerbeam

[LansingRailFan]

My cousin, who farms in mid-Michigan, says it takes hours for ZFS to empty trucks and the farmers don't like waiting that long. This may explain why ZFS is getting shuttle trains of inbound soybean loads.

HESR 810 job, shuttle job for ZFS with HESR 3509/2 others backing into Durand Yard using the Port Huron Wye at 13:15 with 55 loads for ZFS out of Brown City.

They get cars shuttled to em all the time off of HESR as well as GLC elevators like Shepherd, Rosebush and Middleton. Those are all moves that we really don’t see.

We don’t always get to see big blocks shuttled to and fro via HESR but I know that there are near-daily transfers of smaller blocks of cars.

[LansingRailFan]

Durand

17:49 - HESR 701 job is backing out of Durand at 17:55 and onto the Port Huron Wye with all five locos from both the 810 and 702 jobs.

HESR 3509 - GP38-2
HESR 2026 - GP38-3
HESR 3390 - SD40-2
HESR 3484 - SD40M-2
HESR 3414 - SD40-2

18:13 - tail end of HESR 701 job is clear Durand Yard as they head NB

[~Z~]

Grand elk back south through Byron Center at 7:01pm. Wamx 4124, wamx 4125 and 35 cars.

As of 8:15pm, no grand elk in Moline. No cars at Nutrien Ag Solutions in Moline either.

[LansingRailFan]

ADBF 1752/ADBF 1759 shoving hoppers to MAC in Blissfield at 19:00

[Talk]

Z627-09 os Grand Haven 20:08 MMRR 2170 leading MMRR 2019 both LHF Northbound

[Jim_c]

Grand elk back south through Byron Center at 7:01pm. Wamx 4124, wamx 4125 and 35 cars.

As of 8:15pm, no grand elk in Moline. No cars at Nutrien Ag Solutions in Moline either.

GDLK was presumably picking up the Otsego boxcars when I left to walk the dogs at 8:45. At 9:01 they were blowing for M-89, and at 9:04 for Riverview Drive. The wind was just right and I could hear to engine cranking up as they headed south.

[LansingRailFan]

LSRC got another grain train tonight from csx:

CSX Grain NB through Wixom at 21:00, main to siding after Wixom Road. CSXT #450 + #3049

Mostly CSXT grain express hoppers with some older CSXT hoppers thrown in there