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Fletcher Paper always had a car or three on every 337 out of Flint when I was on it. Abitibi got vegetable oil in tank cars for particle board production and shipped loads out. Of course there were more then a few cars of cement for Boichot in Lansing we set out at Ensle along with the Grand Blanc J...

And I concur with RRGuy 100%. We never REALLY had a problem except when the CP Rail Canadian Military train was in town. The foamites were everywhere and Wyoming PD hustled them out of the yard.

Karen was the first name of the 'lady' that called the police on the black guy in New York Central Park for not having his dog properly restrained. Or maybe he called her out for not properly restraining her dog so SHE called the police saying something to the effect of "a black man is harassing me ...

Now there is some classy intelligent dispatching...have a one car train hold the main while a 40 some car train crawl thru the siding. And that doesn't even touch on the dimwit rule that if the upbound train (q326) had a rear DPU then the downbound train (Q327) MUST ALSO have a DPU on the rear. Yeah...

Unreleased handbrakes will be the cause of more then a few derailments and for no good reason other then some fools ruling by the FRA. Makes no sense at all.

If not interesting...at least fascinating.
Live long and prosper.

CSX has the King Milling wheat again.
Steel could go to other spots...but prolly Arlington.
Tie cars come from all over the CSX system.

Z did you put up a train order semaphore in the backyard yet?
And you are located at the old Karl Block Limit Station at 84th yes?

Unsafe emloyees..those, for the most part, don't hold up under scrutiny of the LRB. "Claim denied." But the union has to TRY or they get into a lawsuit from the employee over 'representation problems.' That's why some miscreants come before "The Mast" or 'on the carpet' as they say, time and time ag...

Or have a union behind you with a griever that knows what they are doing and take it to the National Labor Relations Board. I have watched things get overturned and awarded over a years back pay (and more) way too many times for stupid terminations that happened because a TM had a vendetta or had to...

The ex SOO Line is not for sale across the UP. The ex DSS&A is for sale. Algoma Steel is a major shipper out of Soo, Ontario with product in and out. Should Algoma Steel go buns up that leaves Abitibi (or whomever it is now) as a Soo, Ontario customer. Pulp logs in and wood products out. Other then ...

https://www.nmu.edu/upperpeninsulastudi ... a_2015.pdf
Lots of info in Algoma District iron ore mining. GOOGLE works wonders...in seconds.

There was a MINE at the end of the branch. The steel mill in The Soo is on the waterfront, no need to transload then ship ore that far south.
Other thing is..TACONITE is what they use now, not ore. Taconite from the Minnesota Arrowhead AFAIK.

Will it have the EJ&E unit not on it?

Still the same signals out there C&O Dispatcher Doug.

And they would be out of service. The computer/Sat knows and tells ALL in microseconds. Let the Trip Optimizer take the wheel, sit back and toot the horn.

Ogihara Plastics is indeed doing track work to hasten the locals switching work. They have improved car handling of late...you don't have to put cars right back where they came from, they have become much more flexable along those lines. Perhaps a three legged crew setup for the Detroit GRP run will...

Hey Lansing Railfan...I worked there (CSX) for 35 years and did the interchange MANY TIMES. We would meet their crew and do the swap. AIIRC the switches may have had DUAL LOCKS on them.
So been there done that. And you?

Instead of totally EFFING UP Howell for hours why doesn't GLC just pull south of the interchange at AnnPere and have CSX power go thru the interchange and hook on and GO WEST! We did it more then a few times when I was on the East Local out of Ensle in 1992...but wait...we DID THINGS in 1992 instead...

Those old DNR MUCC county maps were GREAT! I remember getting my hands on them at our friends cabin up near Kalkaska...Look at all the railroad tracks up here! And that was in the mid 60's. All gone now though. We just two track on them now.