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I dont know why but i love this part of michigan and whoever the ancestors of the dutch that settled west michigan left their mark up and down that part of the state. here in ohio, we have celeryville near willard where unique ground conditions presented the most rich agricultural ground in the stat...

The new current yard staging all the traffic is called Konrad. At the very west end of Konrad is where the two railroads used to meet was called Fayne. The old yard towards town was called the Handy Track and the other old yard with the Pennsy and the B&O is called Potter.

Ok that one cn train train mentioned earlier was actually an ns train. that cn . L585 is now terminating at melvindale yard on ns, however there is still cn trains that terminate/originate at flat rock, that go to/come from other points on the cn system. Now for the iOry, i do not know of this d458 ...

Well to start off the bat, you can cross that cn train off your list because it hasnt run through carlton in about three years

Yes what your seeing is the rebirth of the little yard that served as an exchange or swap yard all those years ago with the rebuilding of the yard. Most of stub tracks were so bad for those years the iory put them out of service and along with relaying track for the part that ns or gtw tore out in 1...

Where in Gaylord is the transload site at?

Right by Millbocker Road where the site of a Georgia pacific plant was closed and demolished long ago.

Way cool! Now that is a train centric business!

Looks like a busy customer for the GLC. How often do they get switched out?

Remember them, when they closed the plant in Greenville? I bet that was a sad day for the town and the GRE. Looks like 3000 more people around the world will be sad when they get let go. https://www.manufacturing.net/supply-chain/news/13067508/electrolux-axes-3000-jobs-worldwide?fbclid=IwAR0jKb1jxYQ...

A louis dreyfuss soybean processing crush looks to be in the works for the Upper Sandusky area, locating on the cfe?

As most of us know, for years three railroads, one interchange yard all met here just to interchange and swap out traffic. that was all that was here. fast forward to the 1990s, two steel plants located here as the railroad landscape and along came the pig iron traffic from the gtw/iory. 20 years la...

Located alongside the IORY a year or so back on the east side of tracks just caddy corner from FCP and has a spur into the building. I hear they are utilizing outbound shipments of products I have not been around that area lately. but according to the website they manufacture steel tube and pipes he...

Barton Solvents is WSORs newest customer in West Bend WIsconsin. Located at the end of the West Bend Sub. And they get tank shipments of inbound stuff.

Is this at the former CARBO Ceramics transload? Um is that site with the elevator looking structure, the spurs, and the tanks right where the driveway meets the road? If so I believe that place is shuttered currently. This Reagent Outfit built another spur off that spur lead for carbo and located it...

To put on the wiki customer page. On Ohio Central subsidiary Columbus and Ohio River, Reagent Chemical located and installed a truck to rail transfer station here in which hydrochloric acid is brought in by tank car and shipped out by truck.

So when I went to Deshler we stayed in Findlay and I know there is a diamond there and that CSX, NS and a shortline run through Findlay how many trains would you say go through Findlay on a good day? Umm well, if i can discipher through this run on sentence, id be happy to help you out. About the s...

I’m on 75 SB and alongside me for quite some time has been railroad tracks on the west side of the interstate. Once I get into Lima, there’s quite a bit of industry and trackage. Is this all NS? Yes thats the NS LIma District that your following between Findlay and lima. did you see the huge grain ...

Usually i Post about potential new customers but this time a rail customer is closing. Accutech in coldwater ohio is closing their plant and it is a rj corman rail customer.

On the camp chase railroad in columbus, for the first time i dont know in how long there are lpg tanks at the sunoco logistics spur off wilson and broad.

When your young, railfanning and meeting up with a group of multigeneral, people whether locally, regionally, or nationally can be fun, with personal experiences to last a lifetime. When I first started out as a child/teenager by myself in someones backyard right there in Bellevue Ohio...Then when I...