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G83217 was parked at Plymouth this AM for GR crew to take to Grand Ledge. Should become G07719 and be moving within the next hour WB. Why did this train need to change symbols? The G832 symbol was used to get the train to Plymouth. From there a local symbol is used to position the train to final de...

G83217 was parked at Plymouth this AM for GR crew to take to Grand Ledge. Should become G07719 and be moving within the next hour WB.

L302 skipped Lansing work to make GR.

L304 running to GR to bring in cars from L305 and possibly to pick up Lansing cars from GR.

By Elmdale WB 0025 with 50 cars.

L303-17 @ 16:26 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH126.3 Clarksville, Mi with 284 axles. CSX engines #5379 + #581 & 68 cars (26 loads + 42 empties) @ 4,702 tons & 3,990 feet long. He has work in Lansing - final destination is Detroit. R598-16 @ 16:29 eastward reported by the Defect Detec...

L302-15[/b] @ 00:04 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH126.3 Clarksville, Mi with 314 axles. CSX engines #926 + #5480 (elephant style) + 1 & 74 cars. He had work in Lansing that had included picking up an engine (CSX #4017 ? ). L305-15 developed engine problems going east. It took the tr...

W028-15 (rail train) @ 07:49 running his engine around to the train's west end at Waverly to proceed westward with CSX engine #8052 (solo) & 34 rail cars. No further info yet as to where he will be going. Train was backed to West Olive Sunday, when they returned to Holland, went down the West leg t...

An error like that would not fly on an EC-1. You got that right!! Onboard the locos, there is no way to mistake which one you are on. It's labeled everywhere from the number plates, stickers on the forward wall, the PTC screens and written in marker anywhere flat enough to do so. The 796 was facing...

amessmann wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:06 am

00:00 - L304 made a run to Trowbridge this evening.

L305 did not make it back to Lansing yesterday. They expired at Fowlerville. L304 was sent out to bring the train in.

W02809 headed east onto the NS at East Curtis, IN for GR Sub

W02809 through Deshler at 06:50 W028-09 @ 14:05 heading north/east at Porter Junction CP482 / mp CG134 with CSX #8052 and 34 CWR (Continuous Welded Rail) cars and seen on ATCS occupying the tracks north of Porter Junction W02809 being spun for trip to the GR Sub by Garrett crew. GR crew won't be av...

W08502 Ballast train on duty in Chicago at 1000. CSXT 3266 and 598 with 88 Herzog self dumping cars. Train currently slated to run up to East Saugatuk siding and run around train to dump west bound, but unsure where at this point they will be dropping stone. Over tonnage to make the hill without hel...

M327-06 between 05:19/05:49 Grand Rapids, Mi mark up with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engine #4771 + mid dpu CSX engine #743 & 195 cars (94 loads + 101 empties) @ 15,183 tons & 11,389 feet long. He’s building his train. What’s the longest 327 ever seen? 230+. Not sure exactly what the longest one was, b...

G757 Wixom to Chicago (BNSF) @ 21:45 heading west of Deshler Diamond with 2 BNSF leading with CSX 3362 and 90(?) grain loads I've already posted this twice in the April thread but it doesn't appear that it was noticed. G75702 is the outbound G80428/G07731/G07602 that arrived in Webberville 04-01 an...

L302-04 by Howell at 17:22 with 87 cars. 984 + 37 on the head end. A bunch of new what I believe were TILX covered hoppers near to the rear. I also saw 2 brand new sequential TILX 3 bay covered hoppers on M326. I’m curious what customer is getting these new hoppers. Cars are for MQT. Customer fleet...

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Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:56 pm

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Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:12 pm

georgepatak wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:55 pm

Empty grain train with 95 cars northbound through Plymouth. Just now pull by CSX 237, and 7027.

Should be G806 for Lake State.

Something on the Plymouth clear howell at 956pm could be a grainer

GLC working the Ann Pere interchange.

It was my choice to show them this way over the G076 designation as I despise using the generic numbers when possible. I opted to handle this with two sections on my spreadsheet, one for the symbol they used when running past us, and one for the symbol they had going in or out of Plymouth. Speaking...

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:05 am

There is either no L301 today or something else going on, but either way, Y121 will be running to Grand Rapids with 2,800 tons of Holland traffic. Should be a good show with 1 GP38-2 climbing up through Zeeland.

L30104 annulled for lack of crew availability.

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Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:30 pm

David Collins wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:26 pm

Anything heard from L302 yet?

L302-03 had his job briefing at 14:25 & is staring to double up his train in Rougemere / Detroit. Radio quality was very poor & couldn't understand the consist details.

L30203 at South Lyon 1640
CSXT 461 solo
15 x 9, 2141 tons, 1496 feet
Has work for Lansing

Don't believe I have heard his before, if i means anything, but the load went out as G076-02. 14:12 - L305 was heard working Ann Pere along with GLC, the latter of which was visible from I-96. L305 had gone thru East Lansing at around 11:15 this morning, 4017 and 8054. Hi, was L305 going eastward o...

Crew arrived in Webberville at 04:25 this morning to put the grain load together from the G077-31 empty delivered to the plant on Sunday evening. Same amount of cars and power as delivered. Departed east for MP25 in Plymouth at 07:55. G077 is usually a generic number west of Plymouth and not the nu...