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No 2 LSRC locomotives were alike during that era. The only unit that comes close to the 1164 in paint and decal likeness was the 2003 when it was a GP38M for a short time before becoming a slug those two units shared identical nose stripes and also those units had larger duel emblems then the 1171,...

I remember the 1164 received it's Lake State-SBS duel emblems and paint in 2007 and the 1171 received the same treatment in 2009 although if you look close the stripes on there noses are different patterns.

HESR 815 job, loaded grain train from Marlette and Brown City to Durand with 2026/3867/3390/3414 for power and 80 NS grain hoppers was od at 20:35 pm. Had to pick up the 40 in Brown City first and then tack on the 40 in Marlette before heading straight thru to Durand. Just going through Saginaw now...

A unit Potash train heading west at Vlasic Pickle at Imlay City 3 units up front crawling in run 8 coming out of the siding a ex CITX ES4400AC on rear also in run 8 crawling up the hill.

Well lets start with the agri traffic on the line and well start with ethanol plant in Caro and the sugar plant there too. tttleshe shuttles of ddg and ethanol should keep them very busy. The elevator at Colling is inactive at this time. Over on the Denmark Branch I can imagine that both of the sta...

David Collins wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:44 pm

new operator alert

Yep good news the Rock Island will be the new operator very nice.

The last time I did 24 hours at Fostoria was in May of 2022 I can't believe its been a year and 7 months already but I got 8 trains on NS that is the lowest amount I ever got in a 24 period at Fostoria since I started going there in February of 1992. Back in the 1990s it was consistently between 20...

The last time I did 24 hours at Fostoria was in May of 2022 I can't believe its been a year and 7 months already but I got 8 trains on NS that is the lowest amount I ever got in a 24 period at Fostoria since I started going there in February of 1992. Back in the 1990s it was consistently between 20 ...

Back in 2009 I did 24 hours at Joliet it was Labor Day weekend I got 96 trains that's including all BNSF, UP, Iowa Interstate, and Metra I'm not at home I don't have the OS in front of me I know there was over 50 BNSF trains but back then the Metra went in front of the station on the old Rock Island...

Back in 2013 my company had me spend two weeks in Mansfield they put me up in a motel for two weeks oh trust me I had taken my cameras and thank goodness I did I got many photos of the mainline from Crestline to Alliance and Bucyrus to Crestline.

I think the last time I was inside the plant in Greenville it was called WCI for White Consolidated Industries that was in 1990 and there where boxcars spotted everywhere around the plant back then.

What I have done before is stay at the Microtel Inn there at Milan my wife and I stayed down by the diamonds on Saturday most of the day it was hit and miss maybe 5 trains after noon until just after dark on Sunday morning it wasn't bad I remember 4 trains in about 4 hours before we went home includ...

Okay from 2010 to 2016 I had a delivery about once every two weeks into Great Lakes Tissue the boss there told me they still use rail containers they are shipped to either Chicago or Detroit in Chicago he said they use BNSF so they still use rail its just over the highway from Cheboygan to either De...

Heads up Detroit railfans I150 just cleared Fostoria with 147 units (individual well cars) the power is the 439 leading in YN 2 paint and Spirit of Birmingham on the cab the second unit is the 70?? a refurbished GE.

As far as I know it can be over 50 years old but can not be interchanged to other railroads it has to stay on home rails but I am very surprised to see the scrap tie gons for GLC from CSX some of those where built in the 60s and have the old Reading RR name on them and a few ex NYC ones also I don't...

We finna miss a lot of these old cars. New ones are boring AF and make me wanna punch myself in the nads. You got that right I remember vividly back in the early 1970s at Saginaw on PC and C&O but it seemed to me the PC had a bigger veriety of names on boxcars and other rolling stock I think it's b...

Heads up Detroit railfans I -150 just cleared Fostoria with 191 units! (Individual well cars) that's gotta be well over 10 thousand feet GE up front and one mid-train.

I read before it is HESR from Mile Post 5 and south this is all ex NYC trackage so that MP5 was negotiated years ago I would imagine.

I got home from work last night or this morning at 03:00 and was watching You Tube and noticed a new web cam at Port Clinton Pa on the RBMN very nice I noticed there is no sound yet tho I was surprised that is a pretty busy railroad I just figured I'd let yea know.

I think the coal trains to Essexville are done i haven't seen one since February unless someone else has?