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At 4:15PM: westbound/ southbound K596-21 came through Plymouth while D708-21 was waiting west of Plymouth diamond for 596 to clear. K596's power was CSX 878 and CSX 7811 with a pretty long train of loaded steel slabs coming from AK Steel in Detroit. Most of the train was an interesting mixture of lo...

3:30PM: D716-21 departed south out of Plymouth with CSX 6441 and CSX 2214 with no cars. Will be making a pick-up in Romulus.

At about 2:30PM: Westbound D738-21 came coasting into Plymouth (coming from Livonia) pulling Q392's set off (which consisted of 26 cars) went across the diamond directly to Beck for this evening's D708 and/or D908. Pulling the train was CSX 2672 and trailing was GLLX 1017 (An alco T-6!). The 26 car ...

D737-20 departed around 5:45PM north direct to Grand Blanc. Power was a CSX mother-slug set and 2 tracks worth of cars out of North Yard. At the same time: D738-20 from earlier was returning from Livonia with 2 cars. D717 was somewhere near Detroit headed back with their cars for Plymouth.

Southbound U540-20 cleared Plymouth (empty coal train from Flint area) at 4:45PM with CSX 358 (Looked like a fresh YN3B repaint with non-alternating ditch lights) and CSX 467 with a long train of empty CPOX coal hoppers.

Q151-20 cleared Plymouth at 12:30PM with NS 8043 and NS 8835 with a short container train (all loads). D738-20 with CSX 2613 and 4 cars went to Livonia to switch industries right after Q151 cleared the Toledo Wye. D739-20 with that CSX 4750 went south long-hood forward at 12:45PM with 5 boxcars incl...

D739-20 with CSX 4750 went east in reverse to Livonia to meet Q392 from earlier this morning. Apparently 392 set off all those GR cars (mentioned earlier) somewhere in Livonia and D738 hooked on the "front" and shoved all 78+ cars across the Plymouth diamond to Beck Road. What a messy move!

D717-20 came into Plymouth at 8:30AM with CSX 4226 and 11 auto racks. Had a 42 car pick-up at East Yard before continuing to Detroit. Y107-20 returned from switching PCA at 8:45AM with CSX 2672 and 3 boxcars. At 9:00AM: Q392-20 came through Plymouth. Power was CSX 3086 and CSX 7824 with over 121 car...

Q326/327's service to Detriot was axed in March 2011 around the same time that Q195/196's traffic was moved to North Baltimore. Bringing those trains back would sure help the east end, because it's still a friggin mess here in town for D708/D906/D908/Q392/Q399/Y107 who are all involved in moving the...

It's going to be interesting when D908 departs Plymouth because as of this afternoon, I saw only the mother + slug set (that came in on Friday's D708) as the only power for the 150 cars sitting west of town since Friday. Expect that to increase once the predicatable S392 shows-up if it hasn't alrea...

It's going to be interesting when D908 departs Plymouth because as of this afternoon, I saw only the mother + slug set (that came in on Friday's D708) as the only power for the 150 cars sitting west of town since Friday. Expect that to increase once the predicatable S392 shows-up if it hasn't already.

Update: Large white signs have been placed infront of every railroad crossing in Plymouth posting CSX's and the FRA's phone numbers and advised to call if the crossings are blocked by a stopped train. Thanks to the local news that found out why the real reason trains are stopping for so long in town...

As of 5PM: D708 was making a pick-up at Fowlerville, then headed directly to Plymouth's East Yard to set off their cars. After the set-off, they will couple to their 150 car pick-up at Beck Road and tie down the train for a D908 crew for later tonight/ early tomorrow morning. D739-17 departed south ...

Q272 cleared Plymouth at 12:30PM with CSX 416, CSX 5115, and 16 cars (11 manifest + 5 auto racks).

Q132 cleared Plymouth at 12:30PM. No loco numbers to report. I noticed there is a lot of auto racks in East Yard which is somewhat unusual.

Southbound clearing 7 Mile Rd, with CSX 4056 leading. W053? Scanner was garbled when he called out the train symbol. That should of been the weed spraying train that went from Detroit to Wixom this past Wednesday evening. The loco number sounds right as the train had a solo SD40-3 (but couldn't con...

Very short train of Covered hoppers EB @ Williamston @ 17:45. Lead by a widecab CP Unit. Did not catch a number. That was D708. He got into Plymouth about 9:45PM with 9 cars for East Yard. The solo unit (CP 8779) was wyed, went to their 50+ car pickup, then a PTI van showed-up for a recrew. Good lu...

334 and 335 are gone. Move on and let it go..... This is no longer the wishes of those trains coming back. It's about how ungodly bad the gridlock gets in this town when 392 and 708 are working. I get it, those trains kept being recrewed, needed a lot of power to get over the hills (especially when...

I said it in the last thread and I'll say it again: CSX needs to stop this D708/ Plymouth set-out crap. I've been seeing that Q392 now comes into Plymouth to set off their train almost every morning....during morning rush hour. I have to take alternate routes to work in the morning because the cross...

As of an hour ago, Q392 was in Plymouth setting off cars. Looks like lots of cars for MQT.