Shortline Train Location Updates - August 2023

[Jim_c]

I've been hearing the GDLK EOT since before 7:00AM. Maybe they tied down in PLainwell for the night.

[LansingRailFan]

JAIL Z646 SB across the CN diamond at CP Cedar with adbf 822 LHF, 2 boxcars and 3 tank cars and adbf 1751 on the rear.

[~Z~]

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 2:03pm. WAMX 4124, 4125, and 20ish cars.

[Plannerdad]

MQT NB along WRD at 1:45. Looked like 50+
cars, but hard to see around the foliage and stay on the road.

[LansingRailFan]

AARR NB thru Milan with an NS-system grain train for GLC>The Andersons’ Oakley at 18:55

NS/NS for power. 19:57 - crossing the Huron River

[Andy24]

Got a chance to bike out to GDLK tracks at 54th St and wait about 2 hours to see any activity. No train activity but got a good fall breeze while k was there.I would assume GDLK 303 already went southbound already prior to my arrival

[Jim_c]

Looks like the Elk never came back south. There is quite a cut of boxcars from Otsego waiting in Plainwell. I was counting through the trees so I might be off a bit, but I thought I counted eleven on the Otsego line. Eleven is about double the usual number.

[LansingRailFan]

AARR NB thru Ann Arbor, crossing the Huron River at 21:30 with another NS-system grain train for GLC>The Andersons’ Oakley.

NS 4445/NS #### elephant style

[Jim_c]

The GDLK Otsego cars were still sitting in Plainwell this morning.

[~Z~]

Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 11:29am. WAMX 4125, 4124, and 11 cars. Covered hoppers and tank cars with a pair of empty centerbeams on the rear.

[Chip]

IORY departing Flat Rock

3488 and 2489 leading a long train. 70 cars. Mostly loaded center beams and scrap gons with a few tanks and covered hoppers mixed in. 2 of those tankers were labeled liquified carbon dioxide.

[Andy24]

Grand Elk Z439 crew @ 7:40am currently doubling up their train in Hughart Yard with WAMX #3534 and WAMX #3531 with an unknown number of cars

[~Z~]

Grand ELk north through Byron Center at 12:06pm. WAMX 4206 and 4225 (both facing north) with 6 cars.

[Plannerdad]

MQT NB at Ann St. at noon. 3 engines 3406 leading, 57 cars, I think.

[LansingRailFan]

AARR SB out of Osmer with NS 4115/NS 4251 and that loaded grain train from GLC. 85 cars of corn corn

[Talk]

MS Z627-16 os Grand Haven Northbound with MMRR 2170 leading MMRR 2019 trail. Mostly Tanks Again 15:13

[Andy24]

MQT NB at Ann St. at noon. 3 engines 3406 leading, 57 cars, I think.

I thought I heard a train horn around noon today. Considered my mind was playing tricks on me

[MuskegonRailfanning]

MS Z627-16 os Grand Haven Northbound with MMRR 2170 leading MMRR 2019 trail. Mostly Tanks Again 15:13

Z627-16 @ 15:42 NB cleared Pontaluna Road, Muskegon MI with MMRR #2170 + #2019 & 5 cars, (4 loads + 1 empty) - Nice crew onboard today with 8 horn taps.

[Andy24]

Grand ELk north through Byron Center at 12:06pm. WAMX 4206 and 4225 (both facing north) with 6 cars.

Grand Elk south through Wyoming 44th St at 6:24pm. Wamx 4225, 4206 LHF(?) no visual on number of cars.

South through 50th St at 6:24pm
South through 54th St at 6:25pm

[GRRailFan08]

Grand ELk north through Byron Center at 12:06pm. WAMX 4206 and 4225 (both facing north) with 6 cars.

Grand Elk south through Wyoming 44th St at 6:24pm. Wamx 4225, 4206 LHF(?) no visual on number of cars.

South through 50th St at 6:24pm
South through 54th St at 6:25pm

76th St. @ 6:30