Rj Corman st marys to coldwater

[alittlevanwerty]

Caught 1731 in Lima today.

[AARR]

Caught 1731 in Lima today.

9 cars, I think that's the biggeswt RJC train I have seen yet

[alittlevanwerty]

10's the biggest I've seen, except when they run a grain train to Elgin on the fore EL line. Those run out and back with CSX power and Corman's locos spot it at the elevator.

[alittlevanwerty]

[alittlevanwerty]

[alittlevanwerty]

I think this is my best RJC catch so far!
I'm just gonna be lazy and past my vid description instead of retyping it with slightly different wording.

Well I was in Celina and could see Corman had a train ot on the line. I circled the block a few times till they started their run heading east. I got a few miles ahead of them and went to one of my favorite locations, the wye in St Marys Ohio. Luck was on my side, there was a MofW gang on the siding waiting for the train to pass. Even better were the 2 RJCC lettered scrap gons on the track to Minster. I've seen them before but not hitched to the train. The are used by Precision Strip in Minster Ohio. I wish I had caught them bringing them up the Minster line though. Odd that the Conrail coil car was on the main line unless they unloaded it at their distribution center.

[alittlevanwerty]

Well for some reason the player is faulty on this one so I working on fixing it.

[alittlevanwerty]

For some reason the public veiw just doesn't seem to want to work. Here are the 2 videos unspliced.

[AARR]

8 cars, a mighty big train for RJCO Do they run 5 days per week? Do any of their customers get switched every day?

[alittlevanwerty]

Yes 5 days a week. I don't think any of their customers get switched daily. Most seem to be once or twice a week, with omnisource, RJC Dist center and the plastic company in Coldwater the busiest. They transload from boxcars to semis at the dist center, not sure what. An aunt in law worked there handling boxes off the train but I've not heard what they contained.

[redside20]

Accutech Films in Coldwater is one of two plastics plants that Corman serves on the Western Ohio Line, with the other being Versa Pak in Celina.
http://www.accutechfilms.com/

[alittlevanwerty]

Thank you for the link, always interested to see what a company manufactures.

[DT&I]

10's the biggest I've seen, except when they run a grain train to Elgin on the fore EL line. Those run out and back with CSX power and Corman's locos spot it at the elevator.

Didnt they abandone that?

[alittlevanwerty]

The line is abandoned past jones-hughes rd west of Elgin, about half a mile of storage track past the RT81 crossing. Allen and Van Wert counties own the line and probably will keep it as long as the elevator ships out grain trains. Flexible Foam Products in Spencerville gets tanks but service is very irregular. I passes there yesterday, 2 tanks at the plant but the wheels had plenty of rust so must have been there at least 3 weeks.

[alittlevanwerty]

I was lucky enough to finally catch RJ Corman running on the former Erie Lackawanna mainline. I spotted them in Lima Ohio at the NS yard, hitched to grain cars and 2 tanks. I was surprised to see that they used a connection through the husky refinery to acess the Erie rather than go onto the CSX. Wish I was able to catch a vid of them slipping through the tanks and coke hoppers. Before I started filming they dropped the tanks for storage. I figured this was all a storage train but no thankfully. They pulled a few out of storage and conveyed them to Mercer Landmark in Elgin. All but 3 of the hoppers were loaded. I had hoped that they were going to switch Flexible Foam in Spencerville but nope. The 2 white tanks have have been there for months and I don't think rail is used much anymore. F/F and ML are this lines only customers this was one a double tracked mainline.

[alittlevanwerty]

Here are 3 clips from tuesday.

The first is at the west end of the wye in St Marys.



Here the are on the west side of Buckland, I did not film in Buckland as a construction crew was running a concrete saw.



And filming in the pouring rain at Lima

[alittlevanwerty]

Thursday I was lucky enough to catch RJC make a run down the Minster branch and drive in Precision Strip.

[alittlevanwerty]

All the power on the today. Anyone know where the tanks were going? Never saw tanks ran on this line before.

[howeld]

Tanks go to Mercer Landmak facility south of Coldwater.

[AARR]

I enjoy following the daily operations! Thanks