Shortline Updates January 2021

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MMRR 2170 and 2019 are elephant style inside of the old GTW engine shops in Muskegon; 2025 is hooked up for departure in north yard;

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Z62724 os GH MMRR 2170 leading solo... no 2019 nor 2025 southbound 23:51

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Grand Elk north at Byron Center with WAMX 4125 and WAMX 4124, 39 cars. Mix of boxcars, hoppers, tank cars, and a single steel coil car - 4:29pm.
Quick turnaround - back south at 6:15pm. WAMX 4125, 4124, 3 tank cars, 2 covered hoppers and 2 empty centerbeams.
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Z151 arriving in Wyoming 10:34

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JAIL was spotted at the CN interchange today with 2 locos at 10:20. picking up one box car and several black tank cars.

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MSRR Z62726 os GH southbound MMRR 2019 leading 2170 23:22

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Z151 arriving Wyoming 11:15, 3391 leading. 3389 will be leading north.

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Grand Elk didn't run yesterday - maybe they had a snow day as well :)
Per the wifey, Grand Elk is north through Byron Center at 3:43pm.

Back south at 7:02pm, WAMX 4125, two other locos and 65 cars. Shook the house decent tonight.
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Nice sized southbound there, Z!

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/129134429 ... Yrr9g65Umo

Looks like the elevator in Breckinridge had another 90-car grain train that went east/south yesterday. CSX cars. No run thru power although they did turn it around in 24 hours.

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Z62727 os GH MMRR 2170 leading MMRR 2019 southbound 22:57; Decent Train Tonight

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Grand Rapids Eastern crew tying onto their train, looks like 2 cars for Amway and 5 for King Milling. They have a signal to go east.
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If Breckenridge is a CSX certified elevator and they turn the train in a set amount of time they get an incentive that makes it rather worth their while. I know Standish is in the program. Don't know about Breck.
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Doktor No wrote:
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If Breckenridge is a CSX certified elevator and they turn the train in a set amount of time they get an incentive that makes it rather worth their while. I know Standish is in the program. Don't know about Breck.
I believe that any time they've had unit grain trains recently they have turned em around quick. Usually though I thought those came with the power on them to expedite things.

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Per wifey, Grand Elk was north through Byron Center at 4:06pm, HLCX 3834 leading. I haven't seen that one yet and she got to see it first :P
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Back south at 6:41pm, WAMX 4209 solo with 35 cars. Left that hlcx3834 in GR.
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Indiana Northeastern 2230 & 2216 coming into Coldwater with 1 Covered Hopper, 5 Tanks.

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Z, where is that shot in that photo you posted?

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kd_1014 wrote:
Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:48 pm
Z, where is that shot in that photo you posted?
Appears Oakland, IL - linky to the original photo: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5020725
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Grand Elk northbound at Byron Center with WAMX 4125 and WAMX 4124, 18 cars - 4:27pm.

Back south at 7:02, WAMX 4125 leading a 2nd loco and about 20 cars.
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MQT SB at Ann Street at around Noon today. Looked like 3 locomotives. Also at Ann Street, a boxcar was on the interchange track. Haven’t seen one of those in years. Standard Lumber?

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