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- Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:04 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: What is the requirement of working on the rail road
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8075
Re: What is the requirement of working on the rail road
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...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 1:43 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: What Happened to the Coast to Coast? Michigans possible only commuter line that could work
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7996
Re: What Happened to the Coast to Coast? Michigans possible only commuter line that could work
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 ...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:40 am
- Forum: Ohio Talk
- Topic: Underrated Ohio Railfanning Locations
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14407
Re: Underrated Ohio Railfanning Locations
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...
- Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:44 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Suggestions for all day railfanning around the D
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4406
Re: Suggestions for all day railfanning around the D
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...
- Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:38 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan line
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18564
Re: Michigan line
Thanks for letting me know!
- Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:44 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan line
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18564
Re: Michigan line
Must have happened when CP first started looking at switching off of CSX then. I wouldn't have guessed that. Good to know!1TrackMind wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:57 amConnection has been there since 2005...JStryker722 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 9:58 pmThis was put in shortly after CP gained Detroit to Chicago trackage rights on NS in 2009.
- Mon Apr 18, 2022 9:58 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan line
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18564
Re: Michigan line
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...
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:11 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: SRI power confusion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10467
Re: SRI power confusion
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.
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.
- Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: CN's Dearborn Division
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6427
Re: CN's Dearborn Division
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.
Not consistently but I've noted it before.
- Fri May 28, 2021 3:26 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: St. Joseph- May 22nd-23rd,2021
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6606
St. Joseph- May 22nd-23rd,2021
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...
- Sun May 23, 2021 11:47 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
Q326-23 O/S New Richmond Bridge @ 11:42am. Thanks for the help everyone!
- Sun May 23, 2021 11:18 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
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...
- Sun May 23, 2021 11:09 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
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...
- Sun May 23, 2021 9:46 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
Anyone have any idea when Q326 would usually make the New Richmond Bridge??
- Sat May 22, 2021 12:32 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
Q327-22 O/S Hilltop Rd. In St. Joe, 12:30pm
- Sat May 22, 2021 11:51 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
Is that a head-end restriction or full-train restriction?
- Sat May 22, 2021 11:37 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
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??
When does the drawbridge usually get turned for Rail traffic??
- Sat May 22, 2021 10:38 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
And that is basically it for most of the day until Amtrak P370 comes back from Chicago?Tom49801 wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 10:27 amThat is correct.JStryker722 wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 10:25 amdarn. So next up is just Q327 around 11:30am-12pm thru St. Joe??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.
- Sat May 22, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
darn. So next up is just Q327 around 11:30am-12pm thru St. Joe??Saturnalia wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 10:15 amHe’s in if not already through St Joe since he was at the Vine detector south of town just 14 minutes ago.
- Sat May 22, 2021 10:11 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 187698
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021
So closer to 11am in St. Joe for Q326??