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Drove by Beacon in TC today- 5 gons on the siding currently.

MQT1223 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:27 pm

KingsleyRailFan wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:08 am

391 headed LHF to Traverse City, 09:58 passed Kingsley

They come back yet?

Should be heading out of TC any time. Went to Amerhart first and then to Beacon.

Integrity Iron and Metal extended thier siding when Mr Shepherd owned TS&B so that was before 2006. He also got Cherry Growers to increase outbound shipments significantly around the same time. Traverse City was getting switched three to five times per week back then and the cement transload in Elm...

Thanks guys for the updates, keep us informed! It is exciting to hear about a new siding in Traverse City! First new customer siding in probably half a century in TC! Last thing even close was when the scrap yard siding was extended a couple hundred feet about 10 years ago or so. And bringing rail ...

Pulled into the location yesterday to have a look see. Not much has changed with the siding since the picture was taken but the surrounding areas is being prepared. The site around it and to the south looks to be being readied for concrete or asphalt. Not a big spur presently, maybe they'll extend ...

Left town with 3 loaded gons...

GLC in TC. No visual. 14:43hrs.

So is there a new siding or what All joking and incorrect assumptions aside, yes, there is a new siding under construction (I think the first page of this thread has pics of part of the excavation. They need to cut out a path in an access road to continue south where it will connect to the main. It...

KI Sawyer is in Marquette County. Talking the correct place, GAP? Kinross is between Mackinaw and St.Ste Marie.

Man you guys can’t take a joke. I can take a joke like the best of them, but I don't think you were joking. I mean based on this tone alone: "SD80MAC Ingersoll's Mr. Michigan Re: New siding-business in Traverse City??? Post Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:02 pm NO CONTAINERS ARE INVOLVED, THE BUSINESS NEAR THE ...

I spoke to a friend who works for GLC out of Cadillac. He said the siding will be used to bring in empty containers for the company located there, probably on regular flat cars. YES! You are a saint! I don't know why MQT1223 keeps mentioning intermodal. We never said that- in fact I keep referring ...

I thought I would sit back and wait until someone provided additional information directly from a reputable source, and it would seem that a GLC employee would be in the know relating to this most recent development. The bottom line here (and I think we can all agree) is that additional rail servic...

I spoke to a friend who works for GLC out of Cadillac. He said the siding will be used to bring in empty containers for the company located there, probably on regular flat cars. YES! You are a saint! I don't know why MQT1223 keeps mentioning intermodal. We never said that- in fact I keep referring ...

Empty trucks for outbound GoGo Squeeze are hard to find in Grawn. Transferring the finished product to a warehouse in Grand Rapids gives you greater access to empty trucks. Bringing apples into Grand Rapids gives the transfer trucks something additional to take back north to Grawn. And the freight ...

I seen the blue prints from MDOT, there going to pay a large portion of the siding and GLC is going to try and take out one of the 90lb switches that is not being used by the Good Will and move it down on the west end of the new siding to make it a run-around track. I dont know what the hell SD-80 ...

NO CONTAINERS ARE INVOLVED, THE BUSINESS NEAR THE NEW SIDING IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE NOT GETTING. IT'S A FREAKING LUMBER TRANSLOAD, NEW COMPANY COMPRISED OF FORMER AMERHART PEOPLE AS MQT1223 SAID But it's not- are we talking the same siding??? This is for Box Pop- https://boxpop...

All this siding will be for is a transload that is taking some of the business away from Amerhart in Williamsburg. Apparently some former Amerhart guys are trying to stick it to them and get their product unloaded here instead of buying it from the competition. That makes no sense- Amerhart doesn't...

Okay, TC Man. But what you are failing to understand is that this board is full of people who would curl up and die if they could not give you a negative take on every single piece of news posted, here. :P Don't forget those who can't / won't open their eyes to see the whole picture, such as the st...

They have acres of room, all newly graded for said purpose.

Why build a run around siding there when there is already one in Grawn just a few miles south? Presently there is a rail-bike company using the trackage from the run around in Grawn to the US37 bridge (before Beitner rd.). That track has not been maintained since the last train out in the mid teens...