CSX Train Location Updates - February 2021

[donnieland]

y106 and 702 wed
y106 is headed wb today, 1st time i've seen this move by 106
832a - clear ivanrest ave
835a - clear grandville
852a - clear ee hudsonville
854a - clear we hudsonville
906a - 19.1 - 6 axles, 56'
4025 lite power
915a - clear 112th ave
918a - clear waverly
920a - clear holland
930a - app med 30
936a - app med ee east saugatuck - main to siding
1000a - med clear we east saugatuck - siding to main
1024a - clear we wells
1029a - 44.2 - 6 axles, 56'
1049a - cleear ee grand junction
1052a - clear we grand junction

702
912a - all stop 112th ave - in the pass
919a - med clear 112th ave - siding to main
6926 ld, 2472 trail, 2 lumber loads and 24 covered gons
lumber for stardard in grandville
928a - 19.1 - 112axles, 1630'
937a - clear pair hudsonville
955a - set off 2 lumders at grandville

[donnieland]

327 and d801 wed
327
906a - app med fennville
915a - app med ee wells - main to siding
926a - med clear we wells - siding to main
938a - 44.2 - 472 axles, 6328'
7232 ld, 5269 trail, 115 cars with fred along for the ride
950a - clear pair grand junction

d801
929a - med clear ee wells - main to main
950a - clear pair east saugatuck
helper crew will relieve d801 crew at east saugatuck - sounds like the d801 crew will
cab to west olive
1105a - app slow holland

[GP30M4216]

D702 eastbound at Zeeland at 09:25. I just deleted my earlier reports now having seen Donnieland’s intel from a few miles west of me down the pike. Normally, we can hear the horns in our house. Today, we could really hear the prime movers doing their thing.

[Tom49801]

N801-02 @ 08:18:26am eastward Bangor mp CG60.7 with BNSF engines #9206 + #8580 & 130 loaded coal cars. Getting his CSX DPU's at Grand Junction siding mp CG55.6
Q327-03 @ 09:17am, main to siding, east end Wells mp CG41.4 to clear up for N801-02.

[Tom49801]

D801-02/N801-02 @ 09:35am eastward reported from mp CG39 with BNSF engines #9206 + #8580 & 130 loaded coal cars & CSXT pushers #579 + #989.
Q327-03 @ 09:40am westward reported by DD mp CG44.2 w/ 472 axles & 6,328 ft long. CSXT engines #7232 + #5269 & 115 cars.

[Jetlink]

Today marks the start of the third consecutive month for the same power to be on D705-D706. 62 days in a row.

28 days until the 90 day inspection is due. Maybe see some different power after that. (But you knew that)

[Tom49801]

Q326-03 @ 09:52am eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 w/ 184 axles & 2,503 ft long. CSXT engine #555 + 1 & 43 cars.
Q327-03 @ 10:00:22am Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with CSXT engines #7232 + #5269 & 115 cars. He'll meet Q326 at Riverside mp CG80.1
Y106-03 @ 10:32am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with CSXT #4025 lite. Sounds like he's involved with some kind of track work.
D706-03 @ 10:32am westward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 with 600 axles & 9,301 feet long. CSXT #3211 + #738 (DPU?) & 147 cars. Crew change, he was running as D905-02 when he was reported by the DD mp CH126.3 @ 05:08am with 600 axles.

[Talk]

Y106-03 @ 10:32am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with CSXT #4025 lite. No idea what's up with this.

Maybe it is going to get WMI cars as D900 did a while ago but with the Y106's crew?

[Tom49801]

Y106-03 @ 11:04:33 westward Bangor mp CG60.7 CSXT #4025 lite & going into Gross siding mp CG61.3
Q327-03 @ 11:12am westward reported by DD mp CG91.9 w/ 472 axles & 6,446 ft long. CSXT engines #7232 + #5269 & 115 cars.
Q326-03 @ 11:14:24am eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSXT engines #555 + #541 & 43 cars.

[SD80MAC]

Y106-03 @ 10:32am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with CSXT #4025 lite. No idea what's up with this.

Maybe it is going to get WMI cars as D900 did a while ago but with the Y106's crew?

No need for that, D700 picked them all up last night.

[Talk]

Y106-03 @ 10:32am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with CSXT #4025 lite. No idea what's up with this.

Maybe it is going to get WMI cars as D900 did a while ago but with the Y106's crew?

No need for that, D700 picked them all up last night.

You know more than me, just a guess

[Tom49801]

Y106-03 @ 11:21am, siding to main, west end Gross mp CG63.1 Donnieland thinks he may be headed to the power plant in Livingston to make a special pick up of cars.

[BL2-1843]

LansingRailFan says: Bob. I made mention of this 62-day fact to someone and they remarked that we should get used to it. This pair of locos isn’t due for service for 120 days as they are on a 180-day cycle.[/quote]

Would not have expected anything different. This is why these these trains are totally worthless to me. For 50 years, I have lived here with the goal of seeing as many different locomotives as I can in a one month period and have kept records of each and every month since. (now given up) Seeing over 500 at times in the Soo-CP days, was still seeing at least a hundred or more until they took 328-329 away. I used to think that was bad but was better than when CSX took away all the road traffic for 15 months in 2016-2017. After putting on 705-706, mostly with the same assigned power, the total locomotive sightings here between Plymouth and Lansing shrunk to a all time low total of 16 for January 2021 and eight of those were on four different grain trains. Have been chastised before for saying this, so could ahead and lay it again. For me, these train are totally worthless, while others on the sub goes ga ga when they see only D708 go by. 708 is nearly as bad as 705-706 for seeing the same power everyday.

While I continue to report on trains passing Howell here, it is to benefit others because I get no enjoyment from them. If only my wife could talk me in to ir, I would rather move across town to the north side again, (which is where I started off between 1956-1969 along side the old Ann Arbor) GLC may have only a few locomotives, but its at least not the same pair day in and day out.

[Tlout]

BNSF 9206, 8580= north at Riley St. Holland 11:33 AM. CSXT 579, 989 pushing.

[Tom49801]

Q326-03 @ 11:44am eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 w/ 184 axles & 2,550 ft long. CSXT engines #555 + #541 & 43 cars.

[SD80MAC]

Apparently there is a derailed car in Livingston that Y106 is going to assist in rerailing.

[kd_1014]

At least D708 has cooler power than D705/706

[Tom49801]

Q326-03 @ 12:34pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 w/ 184 axles & 2,491 ft long. CSXT engines #555 + #541 & 43 cars.
Y106-03 @ 12:35pm westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 6 axles & 55 feet long. CSXT engine #4025 lite & is headed into Livingston siding mp CG97.4

[kd_1014]

What kind of cars does the power plant in Livingston get?

[Tom49801]

What kind of cars does the power plant in Livingston get?

We have seen those special 8 axle flat cars before hauling transformers in & out of there. But, SD80MAC had posted "Apparently there is a derailed car in Livingston that Y106 is going to assist in rerailing".