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If you are willing do something along the lines of "light rail" and live near Detroit, my employer, the Qline (Detroit’s Streetcar system) is consistently looking for Streetcar Operators. 10-hour days, 3-days off. No RRT BUT you won't be finding very many "easier" rail-related jobs than that. Just g...

In my honest opinion, the first thing MDOT badly needs to do if they were going to add Amtrak trains, is to first add a 4th (and preferably a 5th) Wolverine round-trip to close the "afternoon gap" on the east end (my end of the Wolverine corridor). Going off of Dearborn Station arrival times (since ...

I'm going to say any spot between Millbury and Amherst on the NS Chicago Line. Millbury is claimed to be so over-rated by railfans around the area (Michigan/Ohio/Indiana), I completely disagree, It’s close to civilization (Toledo) but you also feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere at once, whic...

Honestly..it's either Delray, Romulus, or Plymouth. Those spots have the highest train counts for a single place to plant yourself at. As for your fear of Delray: if you Park next to the CN crossing bungalow where there is a wide dirt-gravel spot off of the St. Mary's Cement entrance off Dearborn St...

Thanks for letting me know!

1TrackMind wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:57 am

JStryker722 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 18, 2022 9:58 pm

This was put in shortly after CP gained Detroit to Chicago trackage rights on NS in 2009.

Connection has been there since 2005...

Must have happened when CP first started looking at switching off of CSX then. I wouldn't have guessed that. Good to know!

NS has no interest in paying CP to use their connection at Butler. What traffic NS does have flowing between Chicago and Detroit just takes the long way via Toledo. This is really intriguing. Whether they go via Detroit-Ft Wayne-Chicago or Detroit-Elkhart-Chicago, they have the same crew expense be...

As A SRI volunteer,I'll definitively kill the speculation once and for all:

F40PH #310 is just leased for NPE.With "only" 12 cars this year, it was felt it was worth renting a locomotive with HEP to try to eliminate the need for a separate HEP generator car.Nothing to see here.

If there is enough traffic on a given day, L571 will also pickup or drop off NS interchange traffic, using the 2 interchange tracks on the south side of O.J.

Not consistently but I've noted it before.

Hey Guys, This is my first ever trip report. I usually post on Facebook and Instagram only but thanks to help from this group's members on the "CSX Train Location/Update" feed, I was able make a couple key catches over this last weekend while I was staying in St. Joseph. Here is the catches this gro...

Q326-23 O/S New Richmond Bridge @ 11:42am. Thanks for the help everyone!

If that's the New Richmond at mp 36 per the Time Table, Q326 is going over the St Joseph Bridge now at 10:03am & that would be about 1 hour & 25 minutes away from New Richmond mp 36. Q326-23 had cleared the St Joseph bridge @ 10:08 & was reported by the DD at mp CG91.9 just a few minutes earlier ha...

Anyone have any idea when Q326 would usually make the New Richmond Bridge?? If that's the New Richmond at mp 36 per the Time Table, Q326 is going over the St Joseph Bridge now at 10:03am & that would be about 1 hour & 25 minutes away from New Richmond mp 36. Q326-23 had cleared the St Joseph bridge...

Anyone have any idea when Q326 would usually make the New Richmond Bridge??

Q327-22 O/S Hilltop Rd. In St. Joe, 12:30pm

Is that a head-end restriction or full-train restriction?

I'm at the St. Joe Bridge now,so I'm ready for this guy.

When does the drawbridge usually get turned for Rail traffic??

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:27 am

JStryker722 wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:25 am

Saturnalia wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:15 am

He’s in if not already through St Joe since he was at the Vine detector south of town just 14 minutes ago.

darn. So next up is just Q327 around 11:30am-12pm thru St. Joe??

That is correct.

And that is basically it for most of the day until Amtrak P370 comes back from Chicago?

Saturnalia wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:15 am

JStryker722 wrote: ↑

Sat May 22, 2021 10:11 am

So closer to 11am in St. Joe for Q326??

He’s in if not already through St Joe since he was at the Vine detector south of town just 14 minutes ago.

darn. So next up is just Q327 around 11:30am-12pm thru St. Joe??

So closer to 11am in St. Joe for Q326??