CSX GRE MQT Train Location Update 05-18-08

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CSX GRE MQT Train Location Update 05-18-08

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Q32618 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 05-18-2008 07:35
Q32718 - set to leave Detroit at 3:30pm
Q33418 - CARLETON MI CC 105 05-18-2008 09:01
Q33517 - FOX STATION MI CH 142 05-18-2008 08:31
CP X50016 - sitting in GR since yesterday, on the service track.
CP X50017 - BENTON HARBOR MI CG 86 05-18-2008 09:08
N90316, N90317, N90318, N91018 - haven't left Chicago
E94916 - 22ND STREET NO 2 IL DC 117 05-18-2008 08:09
E94917 - not moving yet
No D800's called yet
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X500 going through Holland - 10:55 AM.

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Q326 heading east at this time. Should be close to Lake Odessa. CSX 8462, CSX 7302 and CSX 2520. Roughly 30 cars. Dispatcher told them they have a 65 car pick up waiting for them in Ensel yard on Track 1.

Freaking cloud rolled in just as the train appeared.
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Also, CSX 2698 heading east behind 326 with a Y150. Has 5 covered hoppers and 6 tanks. The tanks I assume are for Alto, but where are those hoppers going? They don't look like the ones Cascade Engineering recieves at Fox. The only thing I can think of would be the elevator in Lake Odessa. I also wonder what Y150 is. Extra Y320? New train?

Coming over the hill.
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Rolling down to where ever they went.
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Q32718 WB at Farm Lane (CH 83.62) at 6:07 pm. Power is CSX 5232 and CSX 8825. 24 cars.

Q32618 EB at Okemos defect detector (Ch 79.9) at 4:45 pm (plus or minus a couple minutes). About 5400' and 300 axles.

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Re: Y job

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Doktor No wrote:Funny, I hadn't heard any wailing nor gnashing of teeth this morning....but that must have been what the extra yard job was doing.
The hoppers are the idlers for the loaded propane cars. They just go back and forth as needed.
Lottsa propane in the yard for Alto at this time with more arrivnig daily to replenish the cavern for next winter.
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Ah, being idlers makes sense. Usually they seem to use a gon, so that's why they threw me off. Thanks Doc.
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