Michigan Shortline Updates March 2016

[Patriot]

GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:55 with 15 CHs.

[J T]

GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:55 with 15 CHs.

They just headed east at Ball St with 7 CHs. Looks like they might be trying to double the hill due to snow on the rails. The remaining 8 CHs were tied down between Ball and Fuller.

1st half of the train at Alta Dale:

[Patriot]

GRE --- WB Leonard at 3:48 with 12 CHs.

[csx801]

Michigan Shore 2019 is currently working Nugent sand in Norton shores. I caught them with 8 empty sand cars at McCracken headed west.

1:30 edit:
2019 pulled 19 sand loads from Nugent. They are headed back after spotting the empties

2:10 edit:
It appears 2019 tied down their loads at Henry and put the power in the Barn for the night

[NSSD70ACe]

Grand Elk GP40-2W is at CN Kilgore Yard. No idea of the engine # or amount of cars. Just barely visible in this weather.

UPDATE: Still unknown on Engine # but I can confirm that there is one CH tied onto the power. CN crew appears to be waiting for the Elk to get moving before getting to work.

[Patriot]

GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:32 with 9 CHs.

[pbmaxno15]

The HESR was headed west from Pigeon at 9:50. The short train was lead by what looked like HESR 2028 but I wasn't close enough to catch the numbers and one of the ISRR units. They had 6 beat up MWCX hoppers that they picked up from Tower in Elkton and a blue HESR boxcar that was sitting at the COOP terminal just east of Elkton. Normally the scrap gons from Tower are new looking OMNX. Definitely a different looking train from the normal westbound through the area.

[AARR]

It's a pleasant surprise Tower still ships scrap by rail. All their other locations use trucks.

The HESR was headed west from Pigeon at 9:50. The short train was lead by what looked like HESR 2028 but I wasn't close enough to catch the numbers and one of the ISRR units. They had 6 beat up MWCX hoppers that they picked up from Tower in Elkton and a blue HESR boxcar that was sitting at the COOP terminal just east of Elkton. Normally the scrap gons from Tower are new looking OMNX. Definitely a different looking train from the normal westbound through the area.

[CAT345C]

0747hrs LS&I 7-Weigher is getting ready to head to partridge to get empties. Power is 1001 1013

[~Z~]

0747hrs LS&I 7-Weigher is getting ready to head to partridge to get empties. Power is 1001 1013

Enjoy your time in the UP with NEVETS!

[CAT345C]

She's going pretty well, caught the Mineral Range last night..

https://flic.kr/p/EmTzhp

[Patriot]

GRE --- EB Leonard at 8:32 lite.

[tsinoms]

Hearing GDLK down by Byron Center. Don't know if they were NB or SB.

[Patriot]

GRE --- EB Leonard at 8:28 with two CHs and one tank. Interesting that there were three CHs in the yard this morning...they left one behind??

[Patriot]

GRE --- WB Leonard at 11:42 with 9 CHs.

[MQT1223]

GRE crew on Duty, however, 3885 is getting warmed up. Cannot tell if 24 is running, but we have a lot of cars in the yard.

Hooking up 24, if they gather everything that's in the yard right now, I'm guessing we will have a 20-30 car train.

As of 9:25, a blue flag has been placed on the engine house track and some work to 3885 is being performed.

As of 10:30, blue flag has been removed.

Well, according to the crew 3885 is being readied for a day's work and the crew won't be on duty for a while. Not sure when but I got up at 7:15 for this...

As of 11:25, looks like we finally have a crew.

As of 12:50, a train is being built.

As of 1:35, doing an air test. Train is over 30 cars long. If you want a big train with big power on the GRE, this is it! They do have cars for Amway, so they will stop in Ada.

[MQT1223]

GRE is departing with 32 cars!

[MrRail]

MMRR crew dead in Lowel, most likely to continue Monday.

[MrRail]

MMRR Just heard at the Kulross crossing.

[SD80MAC]

MMRR Just heard at the Kulross crossing.

Heading westbound past Spaulding now.