CSX Train Location Updates - May 2021

[JStryker722]

He’s in if not already through St Joe since he was at the Vine detector south of town just 14 minutes ago.

darn. So next up is just Q327 around 11:30am-12pm thru St. Joe??

That is correct.

And that is basically it for most of the day until Amtrak P370 comes back from Chicago?

[Tom49801]

Q327-22 @ 10:55 westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 464 axles & 7,046 feet. CSXT engines #69 + #157 & 113 cars.

[Tom49801]

darn. So next up is just Q327 around 11:30am-12pm thru St. Joe??

That is correct.

And that is basically it for most of the day until Amtrak P370 comes back from Chicago?

Unless they run a loaded or empty coal train. For loaded coal trains, we don't usually hear them until they're at mile post 95 & then being reported by the Defect Detector site at mp 91.9 The St Joe Bridge is mp 87. For the empty coal trains, when they're heard on the on-line scanner, it may be between 1 1/2 to 2 hours to get to St Joe.
Updates are posted here & at the Bangor, Michigan Live Rail cam site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQnvi2FmUg
Q327 is due to arrive at the Bangor cam around 11:15am

[Tom49801]

D706-22 @ 11:05 eastward reported by the DD mp CH126.3 with 436 axles. CSXT engines #5396 + #4566 & 106 cars.

Q327-22 @ 11:17:57 westward Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with CSXT engines #69 + #157 & 113 cars. He''s now about 1 hour away from the St Joseph Bridge.

Q326-22 is inside Gross Siding mp CG61.3 waiting for Q327 to pass by.

Q326-22 @ 11:29:25 eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSXT engines #436 + #3245 + #530 + #7010 & 103 cars. It appears Q326 will be setting off the CSXT engines #530 + #7010 into the east end of Grand Junction siding mp CG54.

[JStryker722]

I'm at the St. Joe Bridge now,so I'm ready for this guy.

When does the drawbridge usually get turned for Rail traffic??

[Tom49801]

I'm at the St. Joe Bridge now,so I'm ready for this guy.

When does the drawbridge usually get turned for Rail traffic??

They'll turn the bridge in time for the train to cross without slowing them down. Maximum speed limit for all trains on the bridge is 15 miles per hour. Q327 @ 11:42am was about 17 miles away from the bridge.

[JStryker722]

Is that a head-end restriction or full-train restriction?

[Tom49801]

Is that a head-end restriction or full-train restriction?

From my understanding, it's for the whole train & you'll hear the CSX Bridge Tender telling each train when they have cleared the bridge.

[Tom49801]

D706-22 @ 11:32 eastward had reported by mp CH111 with CSXT engines #5396 + #4566 & 106 cars. As of 12:00pm, I haven't heard the DD at mp CH104.3 reporting him (could be the lesser scanner range at this time of day or it was stepped on by another call).

Q327-22 @ 12:00pm westward had reported from Riverside mp CG80.1 he's about 7 miles from the St Joe Bridge.

[bluewonderrails]

I believe around 11:50 (roughly) I heard 104.3 go off in terms of D706. Same info basically as reported by Tom

Update: Finished crossing milepost 91.21 in Lansing as of 12:12

[JStryker722]

Q327-22 O/S Hilltop Rd. In St. Joe, 12:30pm

[Tom49801]

Q327-22 @ 12:36 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 464 axles & 7,137 feet. CSXT engines #69 + #157 & 113 cars.

[Tom49801]

Q326-22 @ 12:48 got the ok to proceed eastward from Grand Junction mp CG54 after setting off the CSXT engines #530 + #7010 into the siding there.

[Tom49801]

Q326-22 @ 13:11 eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 424 axles & 5,888 ft. CSXT engines #436 + #3245 & 103 cars. He had set off the CSXT engines #530 + #7010 into the east end of Grand Junction Siding mp CG54. He also has set offs for Waverly/Holland.

Q326-22 @ 13:52 eastward passing by the Holland Depot mp CG25.3

[Talk]

Q326-22 working Waverly 13:55 436 leading 3245 trail

[Steve B]

Eastbound by Trowbridge at 1416.

[Micah_D]

Eastbound by Trowbridge at 1416.

Do you know what the power was?

[SD80MAC]

Eastbound by Trowbridge at 1416.

Do you know what the power was?

D706 with the power Tom reported several times.

[Tom49801]

Q326-22 @ 15:06 eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 384 axles & 5,258 ft. CSXT engines #436 + #3245 & 93 cars (he had set off 10 cars in Holland).

[BL2-1843]

D706-22 by Howell at 15:22 with 163 cars. Head 78 were the identical cars that D708 took back to Lansing yesterday from Ann Pere including the 28 ash cars, Those and who knows what else will be right back west to GRP on tomrrows D705.