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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53684882340_175a63e2d6_z.jpg The Harbor by Jonathon Leese , on Flickr Even on a relatively quiet Sunday morning, IHB's Blue Island Yard is busy with activity. One of their more recent GP40-2W acquisitions and a Slug are pulling ahead with a large cut of cars whil...

redcrumbox wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:53 am

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.

This is such a stupid boomer take lmao

I think ever since they had a new conductor and from what ive heard a new engineer on 301 there schedule has been wacky (maybe because they are showing the conductor what to do and the fact they have 3 guys in the cab of a sd40) but if anyone has info on late run 301's please let me know as I'm try...

L303 East at Madison with 83 cars by my count at 12:31.

X327 on duty in Grand Rapids to head to Chicago with some of the pile o’ cars in Wyoming for Barr.

JAIL derailed just north of Cedar, currently their train is blocking both CN's main and the thoroughfare

JAIL derailed just north of Cedar, currently their train is blocking both CN's main and the thoroughfare.

The Bomb train ran from Midland to Dow's large plant somewhere in Texas.

Y106 east by CH 146 with a GP40-3 LHF and 6 cars 09:55.

MQT #3413 is currently in-transit from the CF&E to MQT. MQT #3389 and #3391 reportedly will be retired and sold in the near future.

Andy24 wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2024 9:04 am

M510-30 @ 2:42am was seen on the Deshler PTZ with a CSX EMD leading, followed by 3 more CSX EMDs and MQT #3413 trailing 5/5 and over 100 cars.

An all EMD train

MQT #3413 is coming to MQT, only took 8 years!

Grand Ledge only has 3 regular trains on CSX but they are fairly predictable. You will reliably see L303 in the 13:00-15:00 time slot and L302 in the 19:00-22:00 time slot. It also regular sees L304, but they are almost always going through Grand Ledge well after dark.

And 4 in total, no?

Andy24 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:21 pm

Anyone know what other trains gets off the Barr Subdivision tracks at CP497 besides M326?

The West Olive coal trains will sometimes take the Barr Sub instead of running on/off the NS at CP 509.

Don’t remember if it’s been posted here or not, but Charlotte Southern #3, the final GE 44 Tonner built, has been sold to the Southern Michigan Railroad Society.

Not running to Alto as of yet.

L303 east by CH 146 in Kentwood 12:09.

You sure? I've only ever seen the yard jobs switch those spots.

You are correct, Dave O, and I have amended my caption to say "the only one to never be retired by its original owner". https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53674885537_1a36dff38f_z.jpg Herzog by Jonathon Leese , on Flickr Recently a Herzog ballast train visited the former Pere Marquette, dumping lot...

Y106 east by Thornapple 10:05. 2 Dash 3 Geeps, 3 gons, 2 tanks, and 3 boxes.