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Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:02 pm
by kd_1014
Andy24 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:46 am
Z151-23 @ 10:40am copying an EC1 at CGE 3.6 Turner Ave to proceed southbound. They also copied an EC1 for Crossing Failure malfunction at CGE 2.8 Broadway Ave. MQT #3389 + MQT #3406 + MQT #3408 + x cars
As I drove back south pass Hughart Yard at 1:15pm, noticed WAMX 3531 or 3534 connected to WAMX #4189 on the tracks.
Broadway Ave? That road hasn’t crossed the railroad tracks since the 80s, and it crossed the GTW not the C&O. No wonder they have a crossing malfunction, because it doesn’t exist!
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:22 pm
by Tankcar123
12:00 NB GDLK 303 Wayland MP81. WAMX 4125 and 4124 with 9 cars.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:43 pm
by Chip
IORY just entered flat rock yard about 15 minutes ago
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:04 pm
by AARR
Hey Chip, did you catch the engine(s)? Did you count the cars? Any additional information is appreciated.
Chip wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:43 pm
IORY just entered flat rock yard about 15 minutes ago
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:26 pm
by kd_1014
GRE west in Ada 14:26
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:08 pm
by ~Z~
Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 3:07pm. WAMX 4124, 4125, 4189 and 10 cars. 8 covered hoppers, 1 tank car and 1 boxcar.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:12 pm
by MuskegonRailfanning
Anything heard on Z627?
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:19 pm
by Chip
AARR wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:04 pm
Hey Chip, did you catch the engine(s)? Did you count the cars? Any additional information is appreciated.
Chip wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:43 pm
IORY just entered flat rock yard about 15 minutes ago
I did but by the time I was able to post this I had forgotten what they were. There was 2 of them, a geep without dynamic brakes (1022 sticks out in my head but that’s probably wrong. The last digit for sure was a 2 lol) and one of the LTEX Ex-UP SD60Ms pulling about 25 cars. I was in a cellular dead zone due to the weather knocking out practically everything in Flat Rock the other day.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:56 pm
by Plannerdad
MQT NB at Turner Ave around 1:00 with 3 engines and around 40 cars. One tank had QLF on it, so probably for Comstock Park. Lead engine sounded like the former GRE (missed the number).
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:03 pm
by AARR
Chip wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:19 pm
AARR wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:04 pm
I did but by the time I was able to post this I had forgotten what they were.
Thank you. I know very little about CN-IORY interchange traffic and am trying to learn more.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 6:34 pm
by Chip
AARR wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:03 pm
Thank you. I know very little about CN-IORY interchange traffic and am trying to learn more.
It was a mix of cars, literally a little bit of everything except for auto racks and I’m pretty sure most, if not all were empty.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 7:50 pm
by Andy24
kd_1014 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:02 pm
Andy24 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:46 am
Z151-23 @ 10:40am copying an EC1 at CGE 3.6 Turner Ave to proceed southbound. They also copied an EC1 for Crossing Failure malfunction at CGE 2.8 Broadway Ave. MQT #3389 + MQT #3406 + MQT #3408 + x cars.
Broadway Ave? That road hasn’t crossed the railroad tracks since the 80s, and it crossed the GTW not the C&O. No wonder they have a crossing malfunction, because it doesn’t exist!
I copied what the Dispatcher stated to Z151 over the scanner and I didn’t hear wrong either. 2nd crossing failure I’ve heard for Z151.
I have looked up
CGE 2.8 and it comes to
Ann St by Fuller Junction.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:40 pm
by Andy24
Grand Elk heard in the distance around 50th St at 9:39pm.
Multiple horns heard at 9:41pm around 54th St now. Definitely a train horn. Rare weekend train run? Or a Grand Elk switcher job
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:02 pm
by Tankcar123
1:01 NB GDLK 303 Wayland mp81. WAMX 4125 and 4189 with 14 cars.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:21 pm
by ~Z~
Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 2:19pm. WAMX 4125, WAMX 4189 and 16 cars. (boxcars, covered hoppers, tank cars and a loaded centerbeam)
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:47 pm
by LansingRailFan
15:10 - As X491 backs around the High Wye, HESR 702 arrives in Durand with HESR 3484/HESR 3390
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:57 pm
by ~Z~
Grand elk south through Byron Center at 5:48pm. Wamx 4189, 4125 and 35ish cars.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:23 pm
by Andy24
Z151-28 @ 12:20pm coming into CSX Wyoming Yard with 4 SD40s and about 70-100 cars. Saw them heading around the Wye in GR
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:28 pm
by Tankcar123
12:27 NB GDLK 303 Wayland mp 81. WAMX 4125 and 4124 with 15 cars.
Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - February 2023
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:02 pm
by ~Z~
Tankcar123 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:28 pm
12:27 NB GDLK 303 Wayland mp 81. WAMX 4125 and 4124 with 15 cars.
Same consist north at 1:00pm. First 10ish appeared to be empty grain hoppers, with a couple boxcars, and an empty centerbeam on the rear.
Back south at 3:38pm with 4124 4125 and 10ish cars.