Heads up X550-18
Heads up X550-18
There is an X550-18 planned out of Flint for this evening at 21:45. CSX Mojo wire shows loco CSXT 8092 planned for this train with 93 mty. tank cars going to the GLC in Owosso for storage. My guess would be that these cars will be put in the siding at Howell for the GLC to pick up tommorrow sometime with the engine lite to G.R. But I've been around this place too long to assume anything with the planning and/or routing of cars.
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You gotta love the common sense here, lets ship it all the way down to Plymouth take a right, and park it on a passing in Howell, so the TISBEE can come down when they get a chance, and leave what ever cars they already have, and then add the tankers to the train, get permission on to CSX, to occupy the main, and siding, pull the train out, mostlikely they will have to shove it out the west end, due to the grade, then pull back onto their tracks, and take it back north, when you could just put in on the local from Flint to Durand and let the TISBEE pick it up in Durand.
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If you guys are talking about the TSBY line in Owosso, than the only other time I can think of is 1969-72 when the PC ran coal loads that way with two or three SD40's. Tore the track up with a number of derailments due to the sheer weight on that track.
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Regarding the many CSX grain trains that traversed up and down TSBY and the Ann Arbor from Toledo to Owosso and reverse that I showed Mike Tabone, it would have been in the time frame shortly after the take over took effect between Conrail and CSX/NS. Mid 1999 to mid 2000. Traffic back ups became so HUGE and Michigan grainerys were so desperate for cars, CSX grain trains were given to the Ann Arbor at Toledo and they came that way. One train even had four units with a CSX mother-slug in the consist, and another with five units including several Helm leasers. Fun while it lasted, at least for us to see in these parts.
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IIRC one or two of those grain trains, has a AC6000 and a SD70AC or SD80AC on them. I rember people screaming about how AC6000's and 80 could never be handeled on the AA and low and behold there they were.
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X550-18 arrived at Ann Pere at 545pm, with one unit, CSXT 5296. GLC with GMTX 2675 in the lead was there waiting for the train. The two are working with each other. X-550 has cut off from their train east of the diamond and pulling engine light into the pass at Lucy Rd. GLC will come out of the transfer, go east of the diamond on CSX to grab the train and take it west down the CSX main. X550 will grab the EOT off the end and after GLC clears the west end and backs around the tranfer, GLC will head north, and X550 engine light will go west. All of this to take effect by 630pm if everything goes right.