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[AARR]

Guardian Industries local returning led by NS GP38-2 and roughly 12-15 covered hoppers.

4 CN box cars at ADJ

[M.D.Bentley]

" A J M "

[AARR]

Saw the "Guardian Local" heading south at 10am. Missed the engine but had around a dozen covered hoppers.

I don't know if this is a daily job or not but years ago (pre CR split) the operated 3 days a week and usually handled 19ish covered hoppers per trips.

[AARR]

" A J M "

Thanks

[sd70accsxt700]

The other Matt can say for sure, but I am 99.9% sure that Mon-Fri, it is. Oh our new hotel in Detroit, (have only been there once) you can see the secondary, in about half the rooms.

[M.D.Bentley]

Tues & Thur days, Sat nites is the current service days for Glass. You would think they would put you up some place away from the tracks so you can get some rest

[sd70accsxt700]

Not bad at all. Best hotel I have been in in 10+ years.

[AARR]

Tues & Fri days, Sat nites is the current service days for Glass. You would think they would put you up some place away from the tracks so you can get some rest

Maybe what I saw today wasn't the glass local . I only saw the last 10ish cars and they were those 2-bay covered hoppers so I assumed it was the glass local but perhaps they were tacked onto a CSX manifest

[M.D.Bentley]

AARR I need to stop typing while i'am tired it was most likley the RR-23 you spotted. Check my edit.

[AARR]

AARR I need to stop typing while i'am tired it was most likley the RR-23 you spotted. Check my edit.

Is RR-23 a CR local? Since I saw the train on Thur and the Glass Local runs Tue, Fri, and Sat I presuming RR-23 is not the Glass Local

[AARR]

At 11am I saw a truck (hi-rail?) switching some 86' box cars around the Ford Warehouse yard at Sibley Rd.

At 2pm a NS unit was switching the same yard and had the box cars from AJM in it's consist.

[M.D.Bentley]

AARR, I edited my original post. The RR-23 is a Conrail job ( Mon/Fri 0630a ) They take care of AJM , Fritz, Ford Brownstown and Guardian Glass. Did you get a picture of the hy-rail truck that was doing the switching? I know the track dept. was working out that way in the yard.

[AARR]

AARR, I edited my original post. The RR-23 is a Conrail job ( Mon/Fri 0630a ) They take care of AJM , Fritz, Ford Brownstown and Guardian Glass. Did you get a picture of the hy-rail truck that was doing the switching? I know the track dept. was working out that way in the yard.

No picture. But it was in the Sibley Rd yard coupled to a short string of 86' hi-cube box cars so I assumed it was shuffling them around

[M.D.Bentley]

Confirmed today. The weed sprayer truck was out at "Bro" on the rail.

[AARR]

4 new box cars at AJM. All 50's. One is a hi-cube.

[CharlieX90]

Confirmed today. The weed sprayer truck was out at "Bro" on the rail.

I heard Rouge yard talking Monday about the sprayer truck..They had sprayed tracks in the yard

[AARR]

Ford Warehouse Yard by Sibley Rd was being worked at 12:30pm and still at 2:30pm. In fact, it looked like engine hadn't moved in 2 hours. On the headend was a couple box cars from AJM. Engine was one of NS's GP38-2's.

[AARR]

Went by Guardian Glass near Carleton. Same assortment of 2-bay and 3-bay covered hoppers you'd normally see. I'm guessing around 10-15 on the property.

It just occurred to me that the horizontal storage tanks they used to have at the north end of the property and is replaced with piles of cullet (my guess). However, the concrete bases for the tanks are still there. It had been many years since I went by. Anyone know when the storage tanks were removed? I'm assuming they held some sort of liquefied gas but can anyone confirm?

[M.D.Bentley]

About 5 years ago they were removed and hauled away by truck. Those things were HUGE. I was hoping that they would go by rail, but did not because of where they were going ( don't remember what the truck driver said now. ) someplace close or not near a railhead. Not sure what you would call it but the piles of materials that is now on the site of the old LPG tanks, makes its way back inside the plant one scoop at a time. ( new broken glass, old broken glass, sand ) that front end loader sure puts on alot of miles between the stockpiles and plant.

[AARR]

About 5 years ago they were removerd and hauled away by truck. Those things were HUGE. I was hoping that they would go by rail, but did not because of where they were going ( don't remember what the truck driver said now. ) someplace close or not near a railhead. Not sure what you would call it but the piles of materials that is now on the site of the old LPG tanks, makes its way back inside the plant one scoop at a time. ( new broken glass, old broken glass, sand ) that front end loader sure puts on alot of miles between the stockpiles and plant.

Thanks M.D. Bentley. Goes to show how long it'd had been since I was last by there. IIRC all LPG arrived by truck as I don't recall seeing LPG tank cars on the local that switched Guardian.