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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...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

CSXfan11 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:40 pm

ENH risk tomorrow for portions of oklahoma and texas. so if any of y'all live in the orange region or the yellow just be aware

Is your name Frankie?

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:04 pm

M326-25 @ 17:02 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG19.1 Zeeland, Mi with 284 axles. CSX engines #5318 + #3208 & 68 cars.

Rolling through Grandville now. 5:25pm.

A drunk driver did this to my left leg back in 1992. I hope your girlfriend's injuries were less critical.

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 ...

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...

Standard Railfan wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 am

It seems odd that apples are shipped to Michigan at all. We grow over a million pounds per year.

Not a lot of Granny Smith apples being grown in Michigan.

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...

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 ...

I love how his hat got blown off.

Been there, done that. Love that site.

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,...

No.

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.

Frozen frosted brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts are the bomb! Meh. Frosted raspberry fresh out of the toaster for me. :D https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products/all-flavors/pop-tarts-frosted-raspberry-product.html Neither. Strawberry. Definitely strawberry second when raspberry isn't available.

AARR wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:48 am

Frozen frosted brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts are the bomb!

Meh. Frosted raspberry fresh out of the toaster for me.

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