NS Lansing Secondary 7/24/08

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:34 am

NS at wix (Mason Area) Heard on scanner, not sure which direction they are going. Looks like they have been in Lansing. New intermodal and gons at Saginaw yard.

CERY · Unread post by **CERY** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:53 am

Intermodal?

Unread post by **AARR** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:23 pm

Must be storeage

RailCanon · Unread post by **RailCanon** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:53 pm

There was a post about those intermodal tables over the weekend. A special train symboled 59A brought them up for storage on Sunday.

CERY · Unread post by **CERY** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:20 pm

I will have to run up there and check them out.

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:34 pm

Gregg Pullano wrote:There was a post about those intermodal tables over the weekend. A special train symboled 59A brought them up for storage on Sunday.

Did 59A actually come to Lansing or did B-30 or B-28 bring them

RailCanon · Unread post by **RailCanon** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:39 pm

Yes, 59A came all the way here, I think. Its lone locomotive (NS 9743) went back south on B28 the next day, though.

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:41 pm

wow NS 9743 is dash-9 ive never heard or seen one of those on the NS Lansing Secondary

RailCanon · Unread post by **RailCanon** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:30 pm

nsted1582 wrote:wow NS 9743 is dash-9 ive never heard or seen one of those on the NS Lansing Secondary

They come up from time to time. It's not entirely unusual. About 8 years ago there was an SD80MAC that came to town for a day.

tsinoms · Unread post by **tsinoms** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:32 pm

Gregg Pullano wrote:
nsted1582 wrote:wow NS 9743 is dash-9 ive never heard or seen one of those on the NS Lansing Secondary
They come up from time to time. It's not entirely unusual. About 8 years ago there was an SD80MAC that came to town for a day.

Please tell me you chased that thing and got pics?

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:08 pm

Do you think a Dash-9 will take the intermodals back when their done with their storage

CERY · Unread post by **CERY** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:26 pm

If they brought them up here (Lansing) then I think that they will be around for awhile. If they are what I think they are (and I don't know for sure) they are most likely cars being stored for TTX. TTX has been looking all over the country for places to put cars until they can be re-built for a new purpose or wait long enough for company policy to allow them to scrap the cars.

On a side note, I have seen a SD70M-2 on the Lansing Secondary.

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:24 pm

Yes they are TTX intermodal cars

CERY · Unread post by **CERY** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:52 am

I went up and took a look. As I suspected they are the cars that are currently being phased out of service with TTX.

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:37 am

yup was anything else new in the yard

CERY · Unread post by **CERY** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:27 pm

Didn't look like it, although it's starting to get over grown and I didn't want to trespass so I didn't much more than the spline sets.

nsted1582 · Unread post by **nsted1582** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:02 pm

ya all their using it for is storage and to bring in gons for MCM and some rare boxcars

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NS Lansing Secondary 7/24/08

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