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- Sat May 06, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
Where? On M29 just south of the Pine River bridge in St Clair. No I ment where is the video. I watched the one in the link it doesn't show them at Cargill. Mm i just watched i kinda skipped through it the first part is at the Davis Rd grade crossing north of St Clair Yard and also noticed what look...
- Fri May 05, 2023 9:31 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
I posted a video of CSX pulling two standard height box cars from Cargill https://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39113 Im in St Clair Mi right now and the PH&D job just left Cargill Salt i noticed two boxcars spotted inside the building i just cought the lights on the locomotive i couldn...
- Fri May 05, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
I posted a video of CSX pulling two standard height box cars from Cargill https://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39113 Im in St Clair Mi right now and the PH&D job just left Cargill Salt i noticed two boxcars spotted inside the building i just cought the lights on the locomotive i couldn...
- Thu May 04, 2023 11:49 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
Im in St Clair Mi right now and the PH&D job just left Cargill Salt i noticed two boxcars spotted inside the building i just cought the lights on the locomotive i couldn't see what he came out with i can definitely hear the horns echoing across the landscape in St Clair.
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:36 pm
- Forum: National / Other States Talk
- Topic: CP to Buy KCS
- Replies: 166
- Views: 155182
Re: CP to Buy KCS
None of the other railroads that wanted concessions got anything so im thinking Clinton Iowa will be a very interesting place to railfan we will see how UP treats these CPKC trains or what kind of priority they receive on the shared track in town.
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
Also at Michigan Sugar in Bay City a couple rail spurs at the plant have been extended to increase there capacity that's good news. Which one? Arent there several facilities? I just noticed your post sorry i didn't see it sooner i will double check next time im in the plant i usually get sent in th...
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 12:06 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Carleton
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17504
Re: Carleton
Does anyone remember the year the I&O stopped running the train to Cincinnati and return to FR i also remember the Susquehanna SD70Ms they used i think starting in 2001 until i think 2008 that might be the year that train was discontinued i remember being at Hamler Oh and the conductor on the southb...
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:15 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - Jan. 2023
- Replies: 775
- Views: 93242
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - Jan. 2023
Heads up Detroit trainwatchers Q150 cleared Fostoria at 11:00 with CSX 309 and 117 and 70 units of intermodal (individual well cars) both of these locomotives are still in YN2 paint back to back.
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:33 am
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: Norfolk Southern returning SD70M-2's to service
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14527
Re: Norfolk Southern returning SD70M-2's to service
I wonder what CN crews think of there fleet of SD70M-2s?David Collins wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:43 amIf you wouldn't mind, could you please elaborate as to why they're bad?
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Great Lakes Central Updates - January 2023
- Replies: 43
- Views: 25939
Re: Great Lakes Central Updates - January 2023
North out of Owosso with 141 cars i missed getting the locomotive numbers but a huge block for Ithaca at about 18:30 or at least cleared Gould and M71 at 18:30 after working the yard south of Gould Street unless they can fit that big of train between Washington Street and Gould he had at least three...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 6:01 pm
- Forum: Railfanning Information
- Topic: LSRC new power
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8503
Re: LSRC new power
Joining the 6431 and 6432 are the 6433 and 6434 are now in fresh LSRC paint making 4 SD70Ms in service now. And FWIW the 6351 an SD50-2 is also in fresh paint now.
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:38 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - October 2022
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46565
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - October 2022
10/27/2022 HESR 702 job arrived in Durand at 15:16 w HESR 3484/HESR 3414 and 72 cars, 42 of which were half of the NS-System grain train being loaded at Gavillon in Carrollton. The train came off of NS to the AARR to the GLC to HESR. 10/28/2022 HESR 702 job arrived in Durand at 15:30 w HESR 3037/HE...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:06 pm
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CSX Train Location Updates - Oct. 2022
- Replies: 905
- Views: 129324
Re: CSX Train Location Updates - Oct. 2022
Heads up Plymouth railfans Q150 just cleared Fostoria at 11:45 with 193 units or individual well cars that has to be well over 10.000ft power was a BNSF C44-9 leading a BNSF ES44AC.
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 12:34 pm
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
Also at Michigan Sugar in Bay City a couple rail spurs at the plant have been extended to increase there capacity that's good news. Which one? Arent there several facilities? I just noticed your post sorry i didn't see it sooner i will double check next time im in the plant i usually get sent in th...
- Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:21 am
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: 0/10, Would NOT Recommend: 2 Trains in 4 Hours at Franklin Park, Illinois
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7641
Re: 0/10, Would NOT Recommend: 2 Trains in 4 Hours at Franklin Park, Illinois
I remember back in May of 2011 i attempted a 24 hour period there after about the 13th hour i threw in the towel not because it wasn't busy i don't have the OS in front of me but remember it was like 30 trains at that point not including Metra i just got tired of being there for some reason and not ...
- Sun Sep 18, 2022 10:55 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: North Pole Express 2022
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12004
Re: North Pole Express 2022
Wow how cool the last time i seen the black and gold WM paint and lettering was on train GR87 between Saginaw and Grand Rapids in 1979 it was a F7B unit it was bracketed by two Baltimore and Ohio GP9s roaring along Niagara Street in Saginaw.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:45 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - September 2022
- Replies: 337
- Views: 68719
Re: CN Train Location Updates - September 2022
Heads up west of Port Huron railfans a westbound auto rack train just cleared 16th Street with about 75 empty racks with a single Gevo for power.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:00 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - September 2022
- Replies: 135
- Views: 47899
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - September 2022
Kinda late report but my parents reported to me a loaded grain train off the MMRR at Paines Saturday afternoon at 15:30 with two units a SD40 and SD70M this is on LSRC my parents still live in the house i grew up in near Frutchey Bean in Saginaw.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:41 am
- Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
- Topic: CN Train Location Updates - September 2022
- Replies: 337
- Views: 68719
Re: CN Train Location Updates - September 2022
Im in Port Huron for a little while a eastbound just went into the tunnel with 75 cars with a SD70M-2 and a SD75 for power.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:22 am
- Forum: Michigan Talk
- Topic: Michigan Rail business news redux
- Replies: 99
- Views: 112090
Re: Michigan Rail business news redux
Also at Michigan Sugar in Bay City a couple rail spurs at the plant have been extended to increase there capacity that's good news.