CSX Train Location Updates - January 2021

[Tom49801]

Q326-03 @ 09:08am eastward reported from Joy mp CG124 with CSX engine #743 leading. Probably has CSX engine #3141 as a rear DPU.
Q327-03 @ 09:18am westward reported clear of the St Joseph Bridge with CSX engine #3061 & 1 gon car & rear CSX engine #3436.
Q327-03 @ 09:23am westward by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 186 feet long. He's going to stop on the main west end Livingston siding mp CG99.3 & Q326 is going into Livingston.
Q326-03 @ 09:33am eastward by the DD mp CG108.9 with 180 axles & 2,600 feet long. CSX engine #743 & 42 cars & rear CSX engine #3141. Many thanks to K1NGxBONDx007 for being trackside & watching & reporting.
Q326-03 @ 10:05am eastward, siding to main, Livingston mp CG97.4

[Tom49801]

Q326-03 @ 10:19am eastward by the DD mp CG91.9 with 180 axles & 2,577 feet long. CSX engine #743 leading & 42 cars & rear CSX engine #3141.
Q326-03 @ 10:32am eastward reported clear of the St Joseph Bridge.

[MQT1223]

326 clear Coloma at 10:50. Not really moving all that fast.

[Doktor No]

Now there is some classy intelligent dispatching...have a one car train hold the main while a 40 some car train crawl thru the siding.
And that doesn't even touch on the dimwit rule that if the upbound train (q326) had a rear DPU then the downbound train (Q327) MUST ALSO have a DPU on the rear. Yeah, that's how they MUST do it according to employee friends. If they had a midtrain DPU and one car then what?
What Hath God Wrought?

[Tom49801]

Q326-03 @ 11:20:45am eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSX engine #743 leading & 42 cars & rear CSX engine #3141.
Q326-03 @ 11:49am eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 180 axles & 2,616 feet long.

[BL2-1843]

D705-02 between 04:24am/04:54am westward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 with 361 axles (+1 axle error) & 3,849 feet long. CSX engines #738 + #3211 & 62 cars (don't know if CSX engine #3211 is running as a DPU).

D705 DPU was on the rear at Howell this morning with 112 cars at the time. DoktorNo thinks holding a one car train on the main while a 40 car train runs thru the pass is nothing compared to at Howell when 100 car 705-706 trains here have had to creep thru the pass for the last four days and nights again because our local parks cars for GLC on the main now. (who has still not been here to pick them up yet) Speaking of which, D708 has not run since Dec. 24th because they cant seem to find a crew for it.

[Tom49801]

N801-03 @ 12:27pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 532 axles & 6,951 feet long. BNSF engines #6237 + #8424 & 130 loaded coal cars.
Q326-03 @ 12:40pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 180 axles & 2,545 feet long. CSX engine #743 leading & 42 cars & rear CSX engine #3141 (no work for Holland/Waverly).
N801-03 @ 12:45pm eastward reported clear of the St. Joesph Bridge.

[SW]

NB mixed freight just turned east at Plymouth. CSX 5208 + 5357 + 160 cars. Sounded like Q508 on scanner.

[Tom49801]

N801-03 @ 1:40:50pm eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with BNSF engines #6237 + #8424 & 130 loaded coal cars. He will hold the main at Grand Junction & add the CSX pushers #579 + #989 at the west end mp CG55.6 & then continue to West Olive.
He had a mix of coal cars I haven't seen before & having different colors used for the end car markings for the rotary couplers. These are the markings seen: CRIX, DEEN, DEEX, DETX, FURX, HEQX, NDYX, NEQX, NOYX, OFOX, & SPSX.

[Saturnalia]

He had a mix of coal cars I haven't seen before & having different colors used for the end car markings for the rotary couplers. These are the markings seen: CRIX, DEEN, DEEX, DETX, FURX, HEQX, NDYX, NEQX, NOYX, OFOX, & SPSX.

Wonder if it might be a mis-route? Last time this happened, it was BNSF who mistakenly handed off a DTE train which was supposed to go to Detroit as a Consumers Power train for West Olive. Consumers figured it out when it got to West Olive, so it was then run via Grand Rapids to Detroitland. IIRC it was the last loaded coal train through GR.

[ns8401]

N801-03 @ 1:40:50pm eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with BNSF engines #6237 + #8424 & 130 loaded coal cars. He will hold the main at Grand Junction & add the CSX pushers #579 + #989 at the west end mp CG55.6 & then continue to West Olive.
He had a mix of coal cars I haven't seen before & having different colors used for the end car markings for the rotary couplers. These are the markings seen: CRIX, DEEN, DEEX, DETX, FURX, HEQX, NDYX, NEQX, NOYX, OFOX, & SPSX.

CRIX = Citirail
DEEX, DETX = Detroit Edison
FURX = First Union Rail
HEQX = Helm Financial
NDYX = Dresser Leasing Corporation (First Union Rail)
OFOX = Residco
SPSX = Progress Rail Services Corporation

[mjotrainbrain]

N801 has just over an hour left on the clock, dispatcher instructed them to get moving regardless.

[Tom49801]

N801-03 @ 4:32pm reporting from mp CG51 finally on the move from Grand Junction. There were issues firing up comm between the DPU's & headend. Wasn't the crew's fault, they weren't getting the prompts they should have been getting. They're not sure how far they're going to make it before running out of time. He has BNSF engines #6237 + #8424 & 130 loaded coal cars & CSX pusher engines #579 + #989.

[mjotrainbrain]

N801 at milepost 44.2 at 16:44

[Tom49801]

N801-03 @ 4:44pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 544 axles & 7,228 feet long. BNSF engines #6237 + #8424 & 130 loaded coal cars & CSX pusher engines #579 + #989.
N801-03 @ 5:10pm eastward reported from mp CG30.

[Talk]

N801-03 approach Holland

[Vinnie5497]

Im from South lyon and I heard a train go through earlier today with a K5lla. Does anybody know of the locomotive that was leading that train?

[kd_1014]

Im from South lyon and I heard a train go through earlier today with a K5lla. Does anybody know of the locomotive that was leading that train?

Around what time?

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P370-03 @ 9:08pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 307 feet long. IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiner cars.
Amtrak P370-03 @ 9:46:44pm eastward bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 (4 passengers off at the station mp CG60.5)

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P370-03 @ 10:49pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 16 axles & 304 feet long. IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiner cars.