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NB Q150 just turned east at Plymouth. CSX 5397 + 8840 + 8095 + 40 double stacks + 13 singles.

N801 east has 532 axles, 6964 feet at 91.9 DD. Clear Hilltop at 18:53.

Dis the local D700 goes thru Bangor yet on its eastward run?

railrod1949 wrote:Dis the local D700 goes thru Bangor yet on its eastward run?

Better have. They're dead at 17:00.

Doktor No wrote:

railrod1949 wrote:Dis the local D700 goes thru Bangor yet on its eastward run?

Better have. They're dead at 17:00.

They died at 5pm already?

D700 came east through Holland with 2048 in the lead around 1015. Had an interesting consist of boxes, gravel hoppers (MOW?), BNSF hoppers, and a CP hopper. I believe it was also D700 that I heard run through Gville around 445 this morning.

kenN wrote:

Doktor No wrote:

railrod1949 wrote:Dis the local D700 goes thru Bangor yet on its eastward run?

Better have. They're dead at 17:00.

They died at 5pm already?

Regular call time is 5AM so yeah. Unless the call time has been pushed back by a previous HOS debacle
the day before.

Q32918 by Howell at 07:53. CSX 8095 single unit with 42 cars. Q32818 went east at 06:42. CSX 3044 single unit with 49 cars.

Y121 currently at Stow Riley St. Holland 9:25 AM.
Heading back south at 9:46 AM. They're going to Zeeland next.

Y121 worked Zeeland first. They then went up to switch near Tlout, where I got to see a near accident on James St. White SUV stopped for crossing lights, SUV behind them didn't see white car stopped, swerved to the left, locked up brakes going across crossing. I thought the SUV was going to roll but they fishtailed and got it back under control. Y121 finished switching, went to Waverly in Holland, and will be going onto the dock track in Holland around 10:45am.
Weed spray train w05318 is near Grand Junction, D700 is somewhere down west of Benton Harbor. Supposed to be a E801 running in a couple of hours. No word on if MMRR is running today.

Q326 east at Benton Harbor, D700 east at Hilltop.

Q329 with consist previously described by MA in Lansing at 08:55.

12:25 - CSXT 4385 and 8095, both facing west, heading east at MA lite power. D708? 8095 led Q329 by me a few hours before, so they must have swapped power and sent something else on to Wyoming. 8095 has its original cab and no AC units on the roof, a nice original SD40-2 profile for those folks into that kind of thing.

As of 12:50pm, e80117 is nearing Saugatuck westbound, 30mph train for now, some EOT issues it sounds like. Q32618 at Gross, D80118 at Grand Junction lite power waiting to shove Q326. D700 west and W05318 east weed spray at Kirk.

GP30M4216 wrote:Q329 with consist previously described by MA in Lansing at 08:55.

12:25 - CSXT 4385 and 8095, both facing west, heading east at MA lite power. D708? 8095 led Q329 by me a few hours before, so they must have swapped power and sent something else on to Wyoming. 8095 has its original cab and no AC units on the roof, a nice original SD40-2 profile for those folks into that kind of thing.

I'll bet they swapped the 8095 for the 2 CP GEs that brought in K862 yesterday that went back to Ensel after spotting the train.

According to a non-railfan friend of mine, Q32819 is blocking his route to work in Lansing, doing switching at Ensel.

Michigan Shore just made an appearance south at Riley St. Holland about 5 minutes ago. Wish they could have come down yesterday in the sunshine...

d70019 kirk MI CG71. d70718 arrived lansing 3:30am.
q32619 new buffalo MI. q32718 arrived Chicago 3am. q32819 Williamston MI. q32919 trowbridge lansing for last hour.
n80018, n80019, n80120, e80019 in system.
e80018 west by new buffalo MI.
w05318 likely died Michigan city last night, w05319 set to run west to Chicago today.

CantBeShook.WeHot wrote:d70019 kirk MI CG71. d70718 arrived lansing 3:30am.
q32619 new buffalo MI. q32718 arrived Chicago 3am. q32819 Williamston MI. q32919 trowbridge lansing for last hour.
n80018, n80019, n80120, e80019 in system.
e80018 west by new buffalo MI.
w05318 likely died Michigan city last night, w05319 set to run west to Chicago today.

Mr. CantBeShook.WeHot, I always like your system snapshots. If it is not difficult, could you occasionally post a snapshot that includes additional trains that run in and out of Detroit regularly, namely:

Q131/Q132
Q150/Q151
Q384/Q385
Q508/Q509
Q253
Q276 (sometimes as L276)

It looks (according to the symbols page) like there may be an occasional L211, L241, or Q298 but I don't know how often these run.
Thanks!

CantBeShook.WeHot wrote:Q32819 Williamston MI. Q32919 trowbridge lansing for last hour.

Q32819 by Howell at 10:45, Should be nearing Plymouth by now. CSX 3432+4229 with 159 cars. Lots of stone empties near the rear. Q32918 went by Howell at 08:15. CSX 3044+2796 with 83 cars. 329 took siding at Trowbridge to wait for Q328 to leave Lansing.

D70019 east at Bangor at 10:36am, CSXT 6545 long hood forward, 4 long covered hoppers, 7 short covered hoppers, a one loaded centerbeam.