Blowing through Jenison/Grandville now. From several miles away I can even hear the rumble of the train. The wind is really carrying the sound this evening.
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- Thu May 02, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 97
- Views: 4476
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 97
- Views: 4476
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: The Steel Wheels Art Gallery featuring railroad art/graffiti
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1764
Re: The Steel Wheels Art Gallery featuring railroad art/graffiti
Graffiti on railcars is an act of vandalism and a crime. It also looks tasteless and boring, and people shouldn't be forced to stare at it because a small minority of insufferable teenagers think it looks cool. No one is being forced to stare at graffiti on railcars any more than they are forced to...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - April 2024
- Replies: 161
- Views: 8191
Re: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - April 2024
46 cars…wow. As I headed west on Burton over the tracks the train was extended back into the yard near the office, so I figured it ended there. It must have been stretched much further back than I could see for that brief moment.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Scenic places to railfan?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 627
Re: Scenic places to railfan?
The New Richmond area is probably the most scenic area on the west side of the state if you want to shoot a CSX train, Amtrak, or a coal train.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - April 2024
- Replies: 161
- Views: 8191
Re: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - April 2024
Grand elk north through Byron Center at 4:53pm. Wamx 4124, 4190 and 14 cars. Looks like the SB train might be departing Hughart soon. Three units with a WS unit in the middle. All three are just south of Burton, headlight on lead unit. String of tank cars at the front of the train, and maybe 20-30 ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - April 2024
- Replies: 161
- Views: 8191
Re: Shortlines Train Locations Updates - April 2024
Grand elk north through Byron Center at 4:53pm. Wamx 4124, 4190 and 14 cars. Looks like the SB train might be departing Hughart soon. Three units with a WS unit in the middle. All three are just south of Burton, headlight on lead unit. String of tank cars at the front of the train, and maybe 20-30 ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: For any of my weather nerds here
- Replies: 10
- Views: 666
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - April 2024
- Replies: 866
- Views: 47248
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: A quick PSA (not train related)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1315
Re: A quick PSA (not train related)
A drunk driver did this to my left leg back in 1992. I hope your girlfriend's injuries were less critical.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:53 am
- Forum: Indiana Talk
- Topic: Railfanning in the Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 8
- Views: 773
Re: Railfanning in the Solar Eclipse
Yeah, I’m sure people have had rooms reserved for a few years now too. If I didn’t have to work, I’d just leave early in the morning and come back in the evening. Done that plenty of times shooting trains in Illinois and Indiana anyway. And since it’s in the middle of the day, there wouldn’t be any ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Indiana Talk
- Topic: Railfanning in the Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 8
- Views: 773
Re: Railfanning in the Solar Eclipse
Well, it'll be easy to track the Chicago-St. Louis Amtrak trains if you want to time it just right for catching one of those during totality. Otherwise I think it would be more a matter of luck to catch a freight during that moment and in a decent location. *Edit: If you were to go to Illinois. Didn...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Hamilton Northwestern Railroad Co.
- Replies: 217
- Views: 2240915
Re: Hamilton Northwestern Railroad Co.
Not a lot of Granny Smith apples being grown in Michigan.Standard Railfan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 amIt seems odd that apples are shipped to Michigan at all. We grow over a million pounds per year.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Holland Railfan Meet 7/12/23
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13475
Re: Holland Railfan Meet 7/12/23
You can easily, and legally, photograph trains at West Olive as they are leaving the plant. No one is going to chase you away from the Hiawatha Drive crossing. Screen Shot 2024-02-24 at 5.02.12 PM.png Screen Shot 2024-02-24 at 5.02.42 PM.png There was a time when you could photograph trains from the...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Fun Friday TLU Poll
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2348
Re: Fun Friday TLU Poll
I've been interested in why CSX plays such a big role on this site. It's always got the most updates from the widest group of people on TLU and it has by far the most detailed and up to date train symbols list on the wiki. It just kind of worked out that way. Definitely wasn't intentional, I don't ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:11 am
- Forum: National / Other States Talk
- Topic: Amazon van ripped in half by Amtrak train
- Replies: 1
- Views: 815
Re: Amazon van ripped in half by Amtrak train
I love how his hat got blown off.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:11 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: NS interchange with CN Lansing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2849
Re: NS interchange with CN Lansing?
Been there, done that. Love that site.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 2022376
Re: Where Is It?
Old Kelvinator plant on Clyde Park? On the track/branch that used to run from the end of the City Market spur to Burton on the GDLK(NYC). One leg ran on the west end of the property and tied into the old interurban RoW. The other ran on the east side where you can still see rail in the parking lot,...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 2022376
Re: Where Is It?
No.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Where Is It?
- Replies: 11194
- Views: 2022376
Re: Where Is It?
Somewhere in west Michigan. Old spur running into the building probably hasn't been used in my lifetime (I'll be 57 this year). Rails are also buried in the parking lot running along the drive to the left.
I'm sure this is probably an easy one for some people here.
I'm sure this is probably an easy one for some people here.