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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 10:50am. WAMX 4189, WAMX 4209, and 20 cars. Loaded centerbeam in there, and a cool old "The Rock" covered hopper.

They do own a decent chunk of land there in Fillmore at the Fillmore Rd crossing. Looks like the local farmer has crops on some of their land, and a nearby house has a small building on their property too. Guess we'll see how large the transload gets as time goes on.

Dayton or Columbus Ohio area?

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 10:30am. WAMX 4190, WAMX 4209, and 15 cars. Mix of boxcars, tank cars, and covered hoppers.

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 11:58am, WAMX 4190, WAMX 4209 and 27 cars. Mostly boxcars. Boxcars seemed to alternate between yellow and red over and over for most of the train.

Back south at 1:53pm. WAMX 4209, 4190, 3 covered hoppers and 3 tank cars.

Grand elk south through Byron Center at 5pm. Wamx 4124, 4225 and 16ish cars, almost all covered hoppers with a couple open gons. Likely stopping at Moline to work.

Tankcar123 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:39 pm

1:37 NB GDLK 303 MP81 Wayland. WAMX 4225 and WAMX 4124 with 22 cars

North through Byron Center at 2:50pm with the same number of cars.

Grank elk south by 92nd st in Byron Center at 5:11pm. Wamx 4209, 4190 and 25 cars.

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 2:43pm. WAMX 4190, WAMX 4209, and 5 cars(4 tank cars and a covered hopper).

Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 2:04pm, WAMX 4017, WAMX 4190 and 18 cars. Mostly boxcars and tank cars with an open gon in there.

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 12:15pm, WAMX 4190, WAMX 4017 and 29 cars.

Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 4:17pm. WAMX 4209, 4225, and 9 cars, mostly covered hoppers.

Tankcar123 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:22 pm

12:18 NB GDLK 303 MP81 Wayland.
WAMX 4225 and WAMX 4209 with 22 cars

Same consist north through Byron Center at 1:10pm.

Grand elk woot woot vehicle south through Byron Center at 6:29pm. Wamx 4209 4225 and 4124 with 35 cars. Boxcars, covered hoppers and 2 open gons.

From what I remember, Michigan Shore is leasing the CSX line between West Olive and Fremont, started in 2005, said it was a 25 year lease, so we likely still have until 2030 to have any real changes to the railline. Unless there was a change later on and they ended up buying the line, but as far as ...

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 4:11pm, WAMX 4225 and 4209 as Tankcar stated, primarily boxcars and covered hoppers. 28 cars total.

Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 4:21pm. WAMX 4189 LHF solo with zero cars. That's an odd movement.

Grand elk south through Byron Center at 5:41pm, 73 cars(quite long compared to normal) with wamx 4209 and 4225 as power.

Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 1:59pm. WAMX 4225 leading with WAMX 4209 and WAMX 4206 with 40 cars. Good mix, some empty centerbeams, and a shiny UP boxcar with graffiti.

Talk - it's that whole 'cant take photos of critical infrastructure' bit that they don't want you doing.