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Michigan Line folk be advised: 350 and 353 will not run Mon-Thurs from May into October due to another season of heavy trackwork. Details: https://www.amtrak.com/alert/wolverine-trains-350-353-temporarily-suspended.html This article indicates the 2024 work will be between Jackson and Ypsi and will ...

Michigan Line folk be advised: 350 and 353 will not run Mon-Thurs from May into October due to another season of heavy trackwork. Details:

https://www.amtrak.com/alert/wolverine- ... ended.html

18:21, eastbound mixed freight at Elkhart depot cam with leading locos elephant style Illinois Terminal and Wabash, and also a rear DPU no once cares about because it’s not hurtaaaage.

Late report, but Grand Elk was Michigan-bound passing the Elkhart camera at 04:34 this morning. 3 units led by the WSOR SD40-2 and about 55 cars. I counted about 10 of those Thiele tank cars that bring the slurry up to Graphic Packaging. Has there been any increase in their railcar traffic since the...

I pulled up this poll at 09:15am on Thursday 2/29 but it looked like voting was already closed….or, maybe I already voted and had completely forgot? #democracyproblems :lol: My Favorite TLU thread happens to also be the one that is generally most useful to me, but that’s because I live in west Michi...

I just wanted to add a few more frames to this thread, in case I don't get back to the other side of the border before the new VIA Charger/Venture equipment starts on the Windsor-Toronto segment of the Corridor. Train 73 is shown making its arrival to the Walkerville Station back on October 27, 2023...

GTW 1951 is preserved at IRM. AA 20 and 21 are both preserved, one in Shephard and the other down in Raisin Center. Saginaw Valley Railway Museum has a former Consumer's Power RS1 on display. Coopersville & Marne also has ex Tuscola & Saginaw Bay RS1 2394 "Corkpine Express" on display. On the UP si...

I just don’t understand why anyone would even think to want to trespass at Waverly. Everyone always knows what power is assigned there because it is reported regularly on this board. With work radiating out on tentacle lines in every compass direction, it’s not hard to see the power or any rando int...

Hello this is GRHC from the present and I would like to know if the interchange talked about in the above post is still active now that the Jackson and Lansing railroad has taken over the line. It is! Here's a great picture of it in action. That’s a great photo of Hollow Yard, Mr. Anderson! But tha...

Yes! Always fun to solve a rolling stock mystery and even better when that mystery doesn’t conclude in a scrap yard. Not much Michigan Central equipment survives. I don't know what the Elkhart museum’s plans are long term but there does seem to be a concerted effort to get a few pieces of rolling st...

I don’t know if it’s a different model or just fouled in the most magnificent way, but the horn on that M327 sounds wicked this morning!

Well that answers the question as to what happened to the Lansing Board of Water & Light RS1 (Ex-Washington Terminal 60)... https://www.railroadmichigan.com/bwl02s2.jpg https://www.railroadmichigan.com/bwl02.jpg The KLSC passenger car was likely on its way to Paw Paw as that operation ran from 1987...

M326-20 @ 14:45 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG19.1 Zeeland, Mi with 428 axles. CSX engine #7222 & BNSF engines #8343 + #777 & 101 cars & rear dpu CSX engine #947. He had added the BNSF power at the east end of Grand Jct mp CG54. I was going to report this, but you’re all over it as ...

000652840034.jpg Michigan Shore making its great escape from Holland Waverly Yard northbound with lone unit #2019, 9 tanks and one shortie covered hopper. August 29, 2023. 000652840032.jpg This one-time Klemme Co-Op Grain car of Iowa was parked at Lansing's Ensel Yard on September 13, 2023. When th...

Side Note: are or were there other diamonds in the Kalamazoo area I would have to think so considering how much trackage and different rail lines that Kalamazoo once hosted. Yes indeed! :) At one time, East/westbound trains on the Michigan Central mainline banged across 5 individual diamonds betwee...

Charlotte Southern video of part of the dinner train being shoved to interchange with CN: https://youtu.be/IVpMq2LbyvY?si=7w8ihHgPJUrJyQfM FYI as of 01/29/2024 - the City of Charlotte has added EXEMPT signs to all of the ADBF crossings in town. Unknown about the crossings out of town. Does anyone k...

I was able to go behind the scenes at Van Den Bosch courtesy of a friend at Ferris State (took a lot of planning) during first semester, and it is a neat little operation. I managed to get video (from the ground and air) of the 121 job doing their thang there, I hope to have the video out showing V...

Note: CSX engine #6549 has a camera mounted mounted inside the cab and Y121-14 has a conductor in training as part of the crew this afternoon. I’d venture to say any of the refurb engines from the last 5 years or so have inward facing cameras. Very few CSXT road locomotives don’t have them at this ...

Per a bulletin issued by CSX on February 5, the following signals are retired and removed from service: CH 105.2, CH 101.2, CH 99.2, CH 97.8, and CH 95.1. New eastward and westward color light intermediate signals are in service at the following locations: CH 104.3, CH 97.8, and CH 94.2. New eastwa...

Yesterday, January 29, P42 174 was released from Beech Grove leading train 51 the Cardinal from Chicago, then was assigned to lead train 30 to DC. This is the first Genesis painted in the Phase VII red blue and deep blue scheme debuted on the ALC-42s. The red and dark blue nose with the white strip...