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Sounds good Y@.

Durand really is a great spot to have meets. It's a nice location with a friendly atmosphere where it's legal to sit and watch trains up close. The only problem is the lack of trains. Elkhart sounds like a good idea. South Bend sounds goods, too. I've never had a problem with cops at Arnold St, so l...

Thinning out the herd yet again....PM me or post here if interested. Athearn RTR CSX SD50 #8652 Conrail/CSX patch $70.00 Atlas Trainmain CSX GP38-2 #2804 CSX YN3 $60.00 Atlas Grand Trunk Western Alco S2 #8099 $60.00 Proto 2000 SD60M Conrail Quality #5547 SOLD $55.00 Atlas Classic Detroit & Mackinac ...

Any engine with a conventional cab is ok! Son of a gun, it does have the conventional cab. Do you think that's a NS specification? Notice that all of the new "road switcher" locomotives being built by Progress Rail, NRE and the like are all "spartan" cabs. The safety cab isn't practical for locomot...

X500 was rolling through Webberville at roughly 4:45 pm.

Looks like an SD50 spliced with an SD70M-2. Pretty cool looking!

Q326 only had one engine anyway, CSX 4810, SD70AC.

Totally forgot to post this, but I saw an eastern coal train going over the bridge at Fox westbound this afternoon. Not much help, I know.

Who stopped at the West end of the yard yesterday? Sorry I didn't have time to say hello but we were rather busy taking apart the Z1512 and putting together Q334. Things fell together just swell destructing/building though....I love to take apart TONNAGE and put it back together...hopefully it leav...

D801 eastbound clear EE Hudsonville, CSX 226 leading.

So the last time you heard anything was November 2008?

Thanks guys, Yeah, I saw the Chi-DT train today, and AMTK 370 1.5 hours late. I'll definitly have to look into tht B05 job. What kind of power is usually found, Gp38-2's and the like? Because the Amtrak Michigan corridor uses specialized ITCS cab signals, power for NS trains is almost always one or...

D'oh, don't know how I forgot to mention the BNSF coal trains on CSX through New Buffalo.

The CSX line through New Buffalo is part of the Grand Rapids sub. As far as trains, it's pretty much hit or miss. CP runs just one train through MI on CSX now, X500, which can show up at any time. CSX runs 2 road freights through New Buffalo, Chicago-Detroit Q326, and it's westbound counterpart Q327...

Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing.

Hmmm, not sure then Matt.

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MQT Z151 at Kent City making a pick up. Working Sparta and Comstock Park southbound.

For those that don't know, GTW4633 and I headed to Altoona, PA this past weekend for a locomotive air horn meet. There were 35 different horns there, it was insane! After the Horseshoe Curve park closed at 8 p.m., we began honking our horns in the valley until about 4 a.m. It was a freakin' blast! H...

What's so rare about today's Z151?