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Don't they call that type of signalling "poor man's CTC" or something like that? No, not really. "Poor man's" CTC was usually where you only had a power switch at one end of a siding and a spring switch at the other. When making meets, you would normally put the train in the siding where you had th...

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Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:23 pm

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:53 pm

All of CSX in Michigan.

3rd shift also has all of the RL desk to deal with, as the desks were combined in June at night. Walbridge can keep a dispatcher busy.

Holy Hell, that's alot of territory on 3rd.

Waybills for Sargent docks, Michigan Sugar final destination Those coal cars from the Reading and Northern loaded with what i presume is coal must be going to Zilwaukee because i went over the Zilwaukee Bridge on Monday and sure enough there was two fairly large piles of coal in the old Anderson Sto...

Expect more of that

50ish

Having worked towers, dispatching as a craft dispatcher, and chief dispatcher, I can say there is a different style of dispatching these days. When I was a chief, I had good dispatchers who were left alone, and dispatchers who I watched like a hawk. However they were still given the freedom to dispa...

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Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:13 am

Well, from the video from AANscaleRunner, I count 109 cars, but WOW was that big out of Cadillac. Someone else posted storage cars was a part of the consist, so that makes sense.

David Lang

You counted before Mcbain. I counted after

CSTN lake george 1923, arriving clare 2033
390
395
393

112 cars

Just departed amerihart (Williamsburg) with 398 397 1 empty

Southbound switching as of 1950 McBain 329, 393, 396 arrived with 21 cars, 17 of which appear to be for mcbain (15 ties, 2 mty center beams)

Curious if anyone has a list of the original CMGN train symbols, when they still owned lines to Grand Rapids.

Anyone know why CMGN went with the symbols they chose?

Same question for the original HESR, why did they choose the symbols they chose?

NS3322 wrote:Here's a clip from a DVD by TM Books and Video that has some shots of the interior of the bridge shack. It appears to have been shot in the 1990's.

Sweet thank you!

AARR wrote:I wonder if the NOKL and NSSX gondolas are going to Beacon?

AANscaleRunner wrote:And a video of tonight's train.

Trace just show loads going to Cadillac.

Firemedic Mike wrote:I won’t share them without permission. They are in the Facebook group, and I can see if he would share them here

I have searched the group and am not finding them, can you at least share the link?

Firemedic Mike wrote:I have a friend who has some. I believe he posted them on the Michigan Railfans Facebook group. He used to operate the bridge

Can you post them?

There are no pictures of the inside of the bridge shack that I've found online. Anyone have any pics?

CSX Crew from takes the train from Crestline to Spore where it loads, then back to Wooster to empty. From Wooster the cycle starts over.

CSX didn't have a good plan for the moving dispatchers implemented. No moving expenses. Um, no. They are paying moving expenses. I am hearing the NS is making their dispatchers move on their own dime, as there is nothing in their contract to make them. That is just something I heard around the wate...

Toledo East CP285 to CP 194, doesn't control either interlocking.
Cleveland Terminal everything east from CP194 to Drawbridge where the Chicago Line changes to the Cleveland Line and on to CP86

The one thing all of you fail to realize when talking about a Detroit to Chicago intermodal train, EHH hates train specific trains. He wants to run a train from A to B carrying everything. Not just intermodal. As much as it pains all of you, EHH wasn't brought in to bring more train counts. Or what ...