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Ok I’ll say it - an SW hauling a long string of passenger cars over the road full of cheery passengers may be less impressive than a storming 2-8-4, but it’s at least as rare. I’d go chase them for a trip if I lived closer. Perhaps one day 1155 and 1977 will join switcher forces and try to take ove...

Looking forward to it The next major project for the GLOR, other than the possible purchase mentioned above will be creating a map of the entire system. It is hoped that the system map, for all GLOR tracks as will as sister railroads and subsidiary lines will be completed by the end of the month. I...

How is this railroad isn’t a class 1 at this point is beyond me We will be after the last mergers officially take effect. Remember the W&LE and G&W Indiana and Illinois lines mergers aren't effective until 1-1-2025, so we technically have about 3 and a half weeks left before we officially are a Cla...

In other locomotive news, the GLOR's Lima shops have completed work on a new, one of a kind locomotive, and it will now be tested in and around the Lima area. The locmotive is #9999 which is an expirmental SD7EL. The Lima shops have removed the diesel power plant and replaced with with a battery pac...

The next major project for the GLOR, other than the possible purchase mentioned above will be creating a map of the entire system. It is hoped that the system map, for all GLOR tracks as will as sister railroads and subsidiary lines will be completed by the end of the month. It is a slow process, bu...

The GLOR has made another purchase from LTEX, this time for an additional group of power for their road freights. LTEX has been keeping a substantial number of former CSX SD50's on their property in Lordstown, OH. GLOR forces have long been using LTEX as a source for used power for their system. In ...

There has been another developement related the the GRMR. The Blue Rock Quarry outside Greenfield, OH has been out of service since the early 2010's and has since flooded. A new company, Blue Rock LLC, has purchased the quarry and the long delapidated, but still intact trackage from the quarry to th...

The OWR / GLOR may be getting a new customer from the Napoleon area. As has previously been mentioned, the GLOR does not provide direct rail service to the Campbell's Soup complex, however the OWR does provide service to the cold storage locations along the line which are used by Campbells for sourc...

Pretty sure they are working AnnPere as there is a long cut of cars on the main south of the diamond, 11:10 12/3/24. Mixed tanks and CHs.

ELSR just learned that Billerud has decided to do some substantial upgrades over the next couple years at their Qunnesec and Escanaba Mills. These improvements will make the ELSR's operations easier in an around the facility and will hopefully increase traffic to both plants starting in early 2025. ...

The GLOR's INER division, soon to be the Indiana and Northeastern Railway, added a new customer in Coldwater recently. Avra Warehousing, a warehousing and logistics company recently received 4 boxcars at their facility near Jat St in Coldwater. It is hoped that there will be more carloads coming in ...

The Washington Court House Terminal Railroad (WCHT) will be a subsidiary company of the GLOR, operating the Fayne Industiral Track of the GLOR in WCH. This railroad will be operated in conjunction with the Greenfield Midland, as the same crews generally work both lines currently. Customers of the WC...

The Greenfield Midland Railroad / GLOR Greenfield Subdivision currently operates in the following manner. GLOR crews will start their day at the Adient facility in Greenfield. They normally have the power located at Adient, although they have been known to in other locations around town, depending o...

US Granules has had their spur inspected and have scheduled work to fix a couple minor issues. Currently their are two cars in transit to their facility, which will be held until the minor track defects can be fixed by contracted crews. It is expected that the work will be completed by the middle of...

I've seen nothing to indicate that the NS/I&O connection is going back in. There's not really a need for it either.   Are they going to be reinstalling access between the IORY yard and NS or just extending the stub tracks father west in the yard? From what I have read, there are some unit trains (g...

so, looking at Google Maps, it appears that the Delta Yard expansion / rebuild by the IORY is now pretty much complete as of June 2024, so it is likely completed by now. The rebuilt yard has the following rough layout. From County Road 10 on the west end of the yard, the line roughly follows the ROW...

After a long period of rumors, it has become official. GLOR has purchased a pair of properties between County Road V and County Road T, disected by County Road U outside Liberty Center. The GLOR has been rumored to be wanting to be more heavily involved in the car storage business, and with the mult...

Salt and deicer traffic has been heavy on the GLOR. Northwest Michigan Salt in Cadillac has been getting regular shipments of inbound salt and deicer liquid for distribution to a couple road commissons and private contracts. The consortium of road commissions in Traverse City have been getting a dec...

Lansing area GLOR update. The GLOR will be doing some additional work on a couple lines in the Lansing area during the Spring / Summer of 2025 as part of their capital improvement plans (which are very extensive and will be posted prior to the start of 2025). The plans in the Lansing area call for i...

Word has come out about the GLOR's parent company possibly purchasing another railroad company, on top of the planned purchase on Anacostia Holdings. GLOR's parent company has filed a bid to purchase Regional Rail. Regional owns a variety of railroads, but two are likely going to be folded into the ...