Owner: Mid-Michigan
Model: EMD GP9 Built As: CV 4554 (GP9)
Serial Number: 22843
Order No: 5512
Frame Number: 5512-8 Built: 3/1957
Notes: Acq 2024
Other locos with this serial: MMAN 1752(GP9) ADBF 1752(GP9) ADBF 2(GP9) GTW 4554(GP9) CV 4554(GP9)
Owner: Mid-Michigan
Model: Rebuilt EMD GP9R Built As: PRR 7015 (GP9)
Serial Number: 20719
Order No: 5408
Frame Number: 5408-16 Built: 10/1955
Notes: Acq 2024
Other locos with this serial: MMAN 1760(GP9) ADBF 1760(GP9R) ADBR 1760(GP9) NHN 1760(GP9) MCER 7015(GP9) CR 7015(GP9) PC 7015 (GP9) PRR 7015(GP9)
The two GP9’s can be MU’d together and will provide enough HP to pull the 25-car blocks of feed/fertilizer that are expected. They are forecasting one to two 25-car blocks per week.
MMGN’s SW9 7011 will be kept until both GP9’s complete their rebuild.
NW2 1977 is for sale and there is a local railroad interested in buying it.
MMAN’s animal feed plant near Vickeryville is progressing with the goal of opening in the 3rd quarter of 2024. Despite the mild winter, the contractors have not been able to get ahead of the schedule due to a shortage of skilled workers.
The ROW is graded. Replacing the old rail and laying new will commence in late April or early May. Old stick rail (but heavier and newer than the existing track) will be used rather than welded rail. It is coming from CPKC who replaced it with welded rail via CPKC-CSX-GLC. Ballast is coming from the aggregate pit in Wallace (west of Pigeon) using the routing of HESR to GLC. The ties are coming from a Stella-Jones plant in Bangor, WI.
Potato Services of Michigan (PSI) is reportedly preparing a proposal to submit to the Montcalm County planning commission to build a plant east of Sheridan on the south side of the ROW. Their plans show several railroad spurs on plant property, but MMGN has not been contacted yet.