Strong wind today! Heard the horn from Grandville one minute after you posted.
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- Thu May 09, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3179
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: Severe Weather thread!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1527
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 261
- Views: 15106
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
M327-08 between 04:28/04:58 Grand Rapids, Mi mark up with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engines #5501 + #5335 & 153 cars (62 loads + 91 empties) @ 11,033 tons & 8,460 feet long. These engines are from Monday’s M326-06. He's building his train. Heard lots of horns around 5:15am, hard to tell from what dire...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: East Jordan & Southern
- Replies: 3
- Views: 731
Re: East Jordan & Southern
I bet you don't miss having to walk the loco like the guy did at 4:50 in that video.Doktor No wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 11:59 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S7ZJbdPeZg Very nice 6 minute tape of EJ&S #6 in action.
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3179
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 3:28pm. WAMX 4124 and 4190 facing north with 28 cars. Foliage getting thick back there again. Finally reached Hughart around 4:25. Heard them blowing for 32nd around 4:18, then I could hear the locos likely going under 28th at 4:20. Strong wind out of the eas...
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3179
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2024
Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 3:28pm. WAMX 4124 and 4190 facing north with 28 cars. Foliage getting thick back there again. Finally reached Hughart around 4:25. Heard them blowing for 32nd around 4:18, then I could hear the locos likely going under 28th at 4:20. Strong wind out of the eas...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 261
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Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
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.
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2024
- Replies: 261
- Views: 15106
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: The Steel Wheels Art Gallery featuring railroad art/graffiti
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- Views: 2025
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: 9162
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: 695
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: 9162
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: 9162
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: Severe Weather thread!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1527
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - April 2024
- Replies: 866
- Views: 50068
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Chit Chat Babble Room
- Topic: A quick PSA (not train related)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1534
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: 977
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: 977
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: 2504294
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: 13702
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...