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And Perrigo in Allegan used to get boxcars of bagged talc for their pharmacutical plant on the house track in the 90's. B&M and MEC cars IIRC. Thank you for that lead, that is very very useful information! There is another company in the area that gets talc, but they truck it all in unfortunately. ...

You mention Bay City and Battle Creek --- right up through Penn Central days that junction to the Midland Branch was called BC & BC Jct. I used to dispatch the Saginaw-Ludington line that ran through Midland. During my time, we usually ran 6 trains a day through Midland, 2 Ludington trains (LU75, T...

A million dollars to install a mainline switch with PTC. This doesn’t include the customer-owned siding track and dock. This is why you’ll rarely see a new, Class 1 rail-served industry outside those that ship unit-trains. A million dollars lol?!?!?! You better double check your math because you mu...

First of all, where is the propane coming from? and oh, there just happens to be an unused pipeline just sitting around not being used!! and second, where is the propane going? in the news story it says, up north, everyone knows about the NIMBY, unless there going to store the LPG under ground, the...

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SD80MAC wrote: Of course, I’d love to see some new upstarts get the GRE and MS instead.

Imagine how much less distance you'd have to drive if WMRR got the GRE

Hey, now that's a great idea! I bet the WMI could probably do some pretty awesome things with the GRE or the MS lol!

Mike H

The MMRR, GRE and MS would likely be sold off. I could see GLC or LSRC going after the MMRR. Realistically, Watco would make sense for the GRE, and the MS would be up in the air. Of course, I’d love to see some new upstarts get the GRE and MS instead. I'd like to see some new start ups or one of th...

When I had the pleasure of wandering that way during my career the spur was used by the local poultry establishment as a siding to get covered hoppers of chicken and turkey feed. Thrown in the ditch at that location was a PM switch stand, the ones with the semaphore up on top. Wished I had snagged ...

The weird thing is it came up the GDLK from NS. What's weird about it? MNS is open to reciprocal switching & the Eastern Idaho is also a Watco property so it makes perfect sense that they would try to encourage the traffic to move over a sister road. I'm sure their backup plan was to route it over ...

Per a source. for those of you in the Grand Rapids or those visiting Wyoming Yard from out of town. Tonight marks the eve of traffic from out west in Burley Idaho. Tonight CSX is bringing in a reefer in their train consisting of frozen butter and it is destined for a business right there at the edg...

The boxcars go to Menasha in Coloma. D700 had 1 in & 1 out lately. I'm just guessing, but in years past it seemed like they probably didn't do more than 12 cars a year if that. The past few months they seemed to have been getting cars more frequently, but definitely not in a consistent manner. I kin...

Warehouse was TLC until 2011 when Ryder bought the entire company. 2016, Ryder sold that one warehouse to Michigan Natural Storage. I'll email my contacts there, ask about railroad plans, and reply later. MNS also just bought the Ryder cold storage facility at Teapot Dome just west of Paw Paw. Seem...

Warehouse was TLC until 2011 when Ryder bought the entire company. 2016, Ryder sold that one warehouse to Michigan Natural Storage. I'll email my contacts there, ask about railroad plans, and reply later. MNS also just bought the Ryder cold storage facility at Teapot Dome just west of Paw Paw. Seem...

Drove by the yard during Thanksgiving Weekend. It appears that DCON has a new customer, ExxonMobil Lubricants (Verso Oil). DCON stages the cars in a fenced in area next to the building. That is not a new customer, just an existing customer moving to a new unloading spot on the main next to their fa...

I think your thread is still relevant Dave. This acquisition definitely could have an impact on traffic through Michigan, but I doubt that anyone trackside would notice a difference. Any traffic originating or terminating on this line that moves to the Gulf or to one of the Western roads will move t...

[/quote]Note: The news article is deceptive when it comes to the number of plants GP has. There are a lot more than listed. For example, they missed the mills in Kendallville, Indiana and Xenia, Ohio to name just two.[/quote] Those locations are not Mills. You are confusing box plants with Mills whi...

No corn syrup either. Fun fact of the day, there are no corn syrup production plants in Michigan. I personally have never seen one that isn't directly on rail. Mike H It may not be a production plant, but there is a ADM Corn Syrup Terminal in Battle Creek! They unload, not load corn syrup & at leas...

No corn syrup either. Fun fact of the day, there are no corn syrup production plants in Michigan. I personally have never seen one that isn't directly on rail.

Mike H

You are making a lot of very unfair assumptions. No one knows the cause of the derailment yet & it's probably more like than not that the DP unit had absolutely nothing to do with the derailment. CN has been running DP through the tunnel for a couple years now, (I would be one who would actually kno...

Monroe cannot dump cars unless they are "right stripped" mean all the cars are facing the same way so that they can be rotary dumped. In this situation it appears that the first two cars are facing the opposite way of the rest of the cars, likely because they were added to the train probably in Alli...

Don't give up on the line yet, there are a lot of things in the works & changes are coming. The track isn't in horrible condition & could be a great place to store a couple unit trains of coal cars or sand cars. More than likely the Fremont line is going to be around for quite a few more years befor...