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MQT, I talked to CP and they are willing to sell you the 15 SD60's you requested. Your batch will include all 12 unrebuilt SOO SD60's and 3 of the rebuilt and renumbered SD60's in the 6200 series.

EXC-601 arrived at Grand Rapids around 1pm and the EXC-603 arrived at 1:45pm. The CCP&S passenger cars were removed and placed onto a yard track at Hughart while the NYC steamers and CCP&S power were taken over to the engine facility to be serviced until the crews to take them over to the MQT were c...

The second excursion train, ESTMCYCH-2, arrived in Chicago at 1am and was interchanged to PC at 8am this morning. Last word was that PC had sent the train on its way east to continue its journey to Grand Rapids. The business train was last reported by Des Moines, IA at 11am and should reach Chicago ...

To update the earlier story about PC trying to buy some SD60's and 60M's from CP, this is a list of the numbers they are selling off: SD60's SOO 6022, 6024, 6026, 6027, 6032, 6033, 6035, 6037, 6044, 6047, 6051, 6053 CP 6221, 6223, 6225, 6228, 6229, 6230, 6231, 6234, 6236, 6238, 6239, 6240, 6241, 624...

Today at 9:30am, PC train EXC-601 departed Piqua yard in Ft. Wayne, IN bound for Grand Rapids via the GR&I Branch with NYC 4-8-2 3001, NYC 2-8-2 1894 and ten CCP&S passenger cars. A half hour later at 10am, PC train EXC-603 departed Piqua with CCP&S streamlined 4-8-4 6700, PA-1's 4003-4004, and 5 pa...

Tomorrow the PC and CCP&S steamers will arrive in Grand Rapids and be ferried over to Wyoming yard.

Lines for sale:

Cincinnati to Kankakee mainline
(Cincinnati, OH to Indianapolis, IN to Kankakee, IL)

Penn Central is in talks with Canadian Pacific to buy some of its ex SOO SD60's and SD60M's that are now for sale. If the sale goes through, look for more units to be retired or placed onto the PCLX leasing roster. In other news, PC is in negotiations with the Indiana Railroad to sell the entire Pet...

The ESTMCYCH-1 has reached Chicago this afternoon and is awaiting interchange to Penn Central. The second train is at Omaha, NE currently and should reach Chicago sometime tonight or tomorrow morning. The CCP&S executive train departed Seattle, WA around 10am with the E7 ABA set and 10 business cars...

Too bad no railroad back in the day built a direct diagonal line from Fort Wayne up toward the Elkhart area. You could conceivably go Toledo to Fort Wayne but they trying to get back up the the Elkhart/South Bend population centers cannot be done easily. Not directly diagonal, but the GR&I did dire...

NS has informed PC that it cannot provide the 1073 for next week as its currently out west on the BNSF on an oil train, but will loan us the 8102 and 1066 though. So we will provide one of our modern SD80ACe's to be the second engine on the business train up to Grand Rapids next week. The NYC 3001 a...

This morning the CCP&S sent out an excursion train from Cheyenne, WY with the 6700(streamlined 4-8-4) and the two PA-1's(4003-4004) and 15 passenger cars. Train is scheduled to arrive in Chicago around mid day and should be interchanged to the Penn Central by Thursday evening. Also coming is the 170...

They have been kicking this idea around for years, it seems that every couple of years the high speed rail advocates bring up the subject again just to get themselves back into the news again. As a former resident of the Fort Wayne area and an avid fan of the ex Pennsy mainline thru there, I guarant...

All show equipment can be moved right into Wyoming Yard. We're ready for them. Just have the Hughart Yardmaster give the Wyoming Yardmaster a ring when the equipment has made Hughart. We will send down a yard job to grab them. Go ahead and let the PC guys know they can get free entrance to the show...

Now from K-zoo to GR you can run your 3 trips up and back because that portion of the line is open for use during the festival. I will talk to the traffic department and let you know how we will slot you in with the other excursion moves that will be running before and after the festival. Come to t...

All right, heard back from FWRHS and my friends from the CCP&S. FWRHS will send the 765 over to Ft. Wayne on Friday June 28th and it will then head north on the GR&I and be stored in Hughart yard until the MQT is ready for it. As for the CCP&S, they will be sending their engines over, along with 30 ...

Since MoTown Commuter Rail won't, we would like to operate the passenger trains into Grand Rapids for the festival. I would run 3 trains to Grand Rapids from each route on or before opening day, and then three trains back at the end. Stations would consist of simple temporary platforms built wherev...

Can we use your tracks south to Elkhart for a steam excursion with the #3001? Yes, you can run the GR&I branch from Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo, then on the Grand Elk from Kalamazoo to Elkhart(you did say all TSCR lines revert to normal). You can also run on the Grand Rapids Branch Grand Rapids to Ja...

So basically you have shrank down to the limits of the real AA that exists today

bumping this up for 59caddy so he can see what lines I own