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Caught an I&O southbound crossing the Huron River on December 26th 2014 [youtube]7V6k2dPXznY&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6k2dPXznY&feature=youtu.be or too lazy to look up how this works....isn't automation for making things easier and cheaper???? not on this plane...

Whoomp, (der it iz)...

October 22 I&O Delta Turn (?) at Flat Rock Yard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YutQIg ... e=youtu.be

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You'all should see the Pan Am in northern Maine - that RR is basically is the old Maine Central still with minimal capital improvements since the 1970s. For awhile they were running unit oil trains up to Mattawamkeag. Lots of wiggly rail and split rotten ties. Oh yes - they have had their share of d...

Maybe this should be in the Michigan Forum??...but it is the north end of the Indiana and Ohio afterall....My son and I caught an I&O drilling the Flat Rock yard yesterday (10-22-2014) with the 5678 (old CP rail). What a neat old crusty well worn locomotive with that single rear light. The train was...

Subject - Goshen, IN and south - what locals ran the roost during Conrail? I am modeling this line from Goshen south to Marion/Anderson and would like to inquire the great minds of this group to help understand the traffic. Specifically I would like to find out what kind of locals served the industr...

C&O / Chessie - Grand Blanc Yard serving a GM plant comes to mind....

what about yards with wyes in them?

You need Mappage my friend.... http://www.knorek.com/RR/SAA/Maps/CRDTmap.htm http://www.knorek.com/RR/SAA/NorthYardSter/CBLCSTIndex.htm there may be more buried in Jeff's site...we never did resize the Consolidate RR map "Detroit and ViniCity" from 1982, but this is my golden reference map of the Mo...

This time a woman on the CN....

http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2 ... 565322.txt

Wyandotte seems to be THE place for this lately...what gives?

Shawn

heh! I took my son to the Flat Rock train museum and lo and behold I caught this guy on the way home...I was heading down Vreeland EB and saw the gates light up so I figured My son and I will watch some typical switching for a few minutes, but lo and behold - E units! I had no idea that that was the...

American Plastic Toys (good stuff still not made in Chinaland) is a customer of the Coe Rail still correct? I thought I spotted covered hoppers on the interchange track while travelling to my ma's in Milford... Does Coe serve the talc plant (expanded a couple years ago too) as well or that CSX? Trac...

carloadings are indeed down but not down that much on the NS... http://www.nscorp.com/mktgpublic/MKTGMedia?inline=true&table=completed_reports&index=348 coal is king on that RR.... another carloading site to check on thursdays is at transmatch.com. so with that I really think a recession of the basi...

http://www.knorek.com/RR/SAA/SAAIndex.htm

info is somewhat dated but he is the one who supplied the info for the article ...

I think it is the 6004 or 6005 - heard it on the scanner the other nite and it is now parked down here - thursday...and kind of buried in the yard....pointing south so git out there in today's sun and git it!!!

I thought they retired these already.....But I am sure glad they did not....