CSX MQT Train Location Update 5-10-2008 TRAIN DAY EDITION!!!

rsinoms · Unread post by **rsinoms** » Sat May 10, 2008 6:13 am

Well I wish all a Happy Train Day and for those who can't railfan today please railfan in spirit and watch youtube! Anyways for those of you who didnt know... Trev, Gregg, and I are going to Chicago for train day, via trains 371 and 370. If you have gregg or my cell phone you can go ahead and give us a call and let us know how your train day is progressing.

Unread post by **~Z~** » Sat May 10, 2008 7:24 am

Q32610 - WAVERLY EAST MI CG 23 05-10-2008 07:15
Q32709 - W MICHIGAN CITY CP MI CG 127 05-10-2008 05:58
Q32710 - set to leave Detroit at 2pm
Q33410 - WICK ROAD MI CC 93 05-10-2008 07:19
Q33510 - ERIE MI CCA125 05-10-2008 07:21
CP X50009 - BENSENVILLE IL DIH 40 05-10-2008 05:15
Amtrak P37110 - not moving yet
N90309 - WEST OLIVE MI CGC 33 05-10-2008 06:10
D70009 - SAWYER OS MI CG 105 05-10-2008 07:15
I think I'll go out and see Amtrak this morning... only cuz Gregg, Trussell, and Trussell are riding, Conrail jon and JT are chasing.

Unread post by **~Z~** » Sat May 10, 2008 8:56 am

Enjoyable morning stroll... caught Amtrak down near Perkins in Jenison..waited for them to clear Q326 at Hudsonville, and watched Q326 near the construction site in Jenison. Lots of chatting with Gregg, Trussell, JT(chasing to St Joe) and Conrail Jon.

Q32610 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 05-10-2008 08:20
Q32709 - CURTIS IN BI 247 05-10-2008 08:48
Q32710 - set to leave Detroit at 2pm
Q33410 - CARLETON MI CC 105 05-10-2008 07:54
Q33510 - PLYMOUTH HI RAIL MI CC 81 05-10-2008 08:53
CP X50009 - BENSENVILLE IL DIH 40 05-10-2008 05:15
Amtrak P37110 - GRAND JCT MI CG 54 05-10-2008 08:55
D70009 - GRAND JCT MI CG 54 05-10-2008 08:31
E94910 - not moving yet
D80110 - NORTH END WYE MI CGC 24 05-10-2008 05:46

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 12:44 pm

Looks like you missed an X500 on that update.

If they haven't died yet, they should be close to Holland by now.

Tlout · Unread post by **Tlout** » Sat May 10, 2008 12:45 pm

X500 at mp 27 - 12:42 PM...

At Holland Depot 12:50 PM...

Unread post by **cnw8835** » Sat May 10, 2008 12:45 pm

Q326 is tying onto their train in the yard. CSX 7645 leading.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 12:52 pm

Another standard cab dash-8, eh?

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 12:53 pm

J T wrote:Looks like you missed an X500 on that update. If they haven't died yet, they should be close to Holland by now.

Tlout wrote:X500 at mp 27 - 12:42 PM...

At Holland Depot 12:50 PM...

Hmmm...I'm good.

I wonder if 500 disrupted the parade.

SteveHiuzenga · Sat May 10, 2008 4:52 pm

naaaa.....it only messed up traffic for people going to the parade, but coming through Holland at 12:45-ish wasn't too bad of a problem....I think the coal train last Thursday messed up parade traffic worse because it was longer and slower.....

sd70accsxt700 · Sat May 10, 2008 5:02 pm

Yea I railfanded today, I walked my train to find a stuck piston and a hand break, and as we were getting run around by K388, I found a car with the wheels sliding, that if it was not set out, would have had coke cars all over the ground, some where down by Monroe.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 5:42 pm

SteveHiuzenga wrote:I think the coal train last Thursday messed up parade traffic worse because it was longer and slower.....

Not to mention the parade of about 50 buses that came into town at the exact moment the coal train arrived. WHAT A MESS! I think that's the biggest CF I've ever seen in Holland...and I was right in the center of it all.
Oh, look...the sign for Tim's favorite bank.

Speaking of coal trains...N914-03 just arrived in Wyoming yard at approx 4:35. Lead was CSXT 598 and trailing unit CSXT 455. They pulled down to the west end and the crew was off and picked up immediately. I'm now listening to the online scanner for them to get going again. Hopefully they leave when it's still light out.

sd70accsxt700 · Sat May 10, 2008 5:48 pm

SteveHiuzenga wrote:
I think the coal train last Thursday messed up parade traffic worse because it was longer and slower.....

Not to mention the parade of about 50 buses that came into town at the exact moment the coal train arrived. WHAT A MESS! I think that's the biggest CF I've ever seen in Holland...and I was right in the center of it all.

sd70accsxt700 wrote:
Yea I railfanded today, I walked my train to find a stuck piston and a hand break, and as we were getting run around by K388, I found a car with the wheels sliding, that if it was not set out, would have had coke cars all over the ground, some where down by Monroe.

Wow, must be a major flat spot on those wheels, eh?

Speaking of coal trains...N914-03 just arrived in Wyoming yard at approx 4:35. Lead was CSXT 598 and trailing unit CSXT 455. They pulled down to the west end and the crew was off and picked up immediately. I'm now listening to the online scanner for them to get going again. Hopefully they leave when it's still light out.

YOU ALREADY SAID THAT!!!!!!

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 5:50 pm

WTF...talk about a forum glitch. All I did was edit my message to include your quote and my reply, and everything goes haywire. Geezuz.

sd70accsxt700 · Sat May 10, 2008 5:51 pm

Was not the flat spots, but the tread build up, we checked it out on the way by and to see if we could lend a hand, when we seen it, it was about a inch or so thick, and the conductor said that he had already pealed off about half of it. He said he was riding the side of the car, watching it to pull it down to set it off, and he had to get off and ride the car behind it, because it was jumping up and down so bad, that he almost fell off.

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 5:53 pm

Ahh, I was picturing an axle locked up and the wheels sliding along the rails.

sd70accsxt700 · Sat May 10, 2008 5:59 pm

Yes JT that is what happens, but when that happens, the rail and wheel head heat up to the point that it "melts" the head of the rail, from the scrapeing, and forms buildup. This build up "welds" itself to the wheel, and just keeps growing and growing until, somthing breaks, or if the wheel starts turning again, the car jumps up and down, and "jumps" off the rail. It was so bad, it deffinatly would have in the curve in Monroe, under US-24

J T · Unread post by **J T** » Sat May 10, 2008 6:11 pm

Wow, I never would have imagined that, Matt. Now THAT is something I'd like to see (as long as it didn't cause any derailment problems).

SD80MAC · Unread post by **SD80MAC** » Sat May 10, 2008 6:25 pm

Not a bad way to spend Train Day. Got MMRR 24 sitting outside at Ann St., chased P371 down from Fuller and then to Holland. Got 326 in the yard along with that B36-7. Went out again after work and got Q335 at Snow Rd, N914 just east of Fox and X500 crossing the Thornapple Bridge.

GTW6401 · Unread post by **GTW6401** » Sat May 10, 2008 8:40 pm

CSX that I spotted today.

Q132 - Rougemere Yard: UP 2408 and 9408. 11:05am
Q272 - Romulus: CSXT 5365 and 7523 3:15pm
Q305 - Romulus: CSXT 5431 and 8065 4:30pm
G352 - Romulus: CSXT 8726 and 8408 4pm
Loaded Coal for Marysville - Romulus: CSXT 369 and 7585 3:20pm

i995impalass · Sat May 10, 2008 11:09 pm

And lets not forget it was on this day in 1869 that the golden spike was driven in meeting the Union and Central Pacific

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CSX MQT Train Location Update 5-10-2008 TRAIN DAY EDITION!!!

CSX MQT Train Location Update 5-10-2008 TRAIN DAY EDITION!!!