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It looks like they are unloading the truck into the one behind it. That will raise it a couple inches and jam it in there real good. :lol: They should have loaded a few of those concrete freeway median barriers into the truck, and they could have backed it right out. :roll: Eh, you make the bottom ...

Keep in mind that there are two methanol Plants on the way...This one will be built on a brownfield site of a former Chemical plant operated by Dow in Institute West Virgina..Thats a city between Nitro and Charleston. A nice pickup for Watco and NS...Now. CSX across the Kanawha River could use a sh...

midland sub wrote:Supposedly 30-40 outbound cars a month is what they were told it will produce

A far cry from what the daily traffic in and out of the Institute facility used to have

I grew up in the township. Right next to the line that went to Paines. I remember the Chessie units with a mix of grain and scrap gons running west, then them coming back with just the gons. My only other experience from that time frame would have been the dubious chemical trains running to midland...

I grew up in the township. Right next to the line that went to Paines. I remember the Chessie units with a mix of grain and scrap gons running west, then them coming back with just the gons. My only other experience from that time frame would have been the dubious chemical trains running to midland

BamaSubdivision94 wrote:I feel the love.

You have to take into consideration that not a lot of people know the history there. All I remember growing up was Chessie and later CSX

I wonder why Illinois or any other state can tax railroads for fuel when they don't use the roads. You could say those taxes are used to build highways that competing trucks drive on. Road taxes aren't the only taxes you pay on fuel. The sales tax in parts of Illinois, and especially in certain par...

That is Gavilon Grain, which is served by LSRC. Trains going to Gavilon first head south at Mershon, then back across the diamond on HESR tracks before reaching the spur switch just north of Stoker Road. [/quote] No one anymore. As it stands, HESR & LSRC both switch Gavilon Grain. LSRC does majorit...

Wonder what they are using the frac water tanks for? Standard operating procedure in any transformer yard where you are dealing with water. There is potential for contamination in the groundwater. it is containerized until sampling determines it is clean. If it is not clean it will be hauled to a t...

I find it both amazing and sad that you have this huge plot of land that could be rebuilt and repurposed to provide jobs for hundreds to thousands of people, but yet nothing seems to be going on there until this relatively small project. I know there have been proposals for the land, but you would ...

They are there for scrap. There was a string of the same hoppers at OMNISOURCE in Bay city a few weeks ago

HESR 2668 and 3867 are sitting at Kochville rd in Zilwaukee. Looks like they are headed to Durand

Judge for yourself, but this looks like a switch issue.

Lake state is headed for paines with an empty unit grain

Anyone have any info on the large cut of WRRC 3 bay open hoppers that have shown up at LSRC in Saginaw? Obviously stone cars, but I have not seen them previously

Is it true? I'm sort of pinching myself...But an Alabama manufacturer of cast iron pipe is coming to Flint. Coming to the old Buick City property http://www.freep.com/article/20131113/BUSINESS0101/311130151/Flint-Buick-City-American-Cast-Iron-Pipe-Co-General-Motors-RACER-GM Dont expect it to be lon...

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CAT345C wrote:Once found a suspicious package while out hi-railing. My co worker went and looked in it after I told him no...ended up being a box of expired doughnuts from the near by bakery.

Was there white powder on those donuts?

The anthrax is delicious

HSER Durand job and what looks to be the thumb job have met in zilwaukee. The Durand job took approx 30 cars from the thumb turn. The thumb turn looks to be headed to bay city. 2027 and 2026 are headed south with 95 cars

Well the Zilwaukee Peavy location has been receiving Grain for a few weeks now. I would expect some trains to head out of there this winter/spring.

Heads up Durand railfans you have a southbound HESR headed your way the 2028 solo and two cars both CH's. If it were anyone else posting this I'd think this is a joke. I'd love to no the reason they are running a two car extra on a Sunday unless there are hot cars in Durand that need to go north bu...