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Re: Port Inland Railroad
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:00 pm
by MQT1223
Crow T Robot wrote:Might check it out this year. I think I tried it once but the road got real bad and had to turn around not sure if it was the same one though..
The road leading to that crossing is primarily used by trucks and most likely will be less then adequate from what I’ve been told by a friend of mine that’s attempted To go back there before.
Re: Port Inland Railroad
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:17 pm
by GLC 392
MQT1223 wrote:Crow T Robot wrote:Might check it out this year. I think I tried it once but the road got real bad and had to turn around not sure if it was the same one though..
The road leading to that crossing is primarily used by trucks and most likely will be less then adequate from what I’ve been told by a friend of mine that’s attempted To go back there before.
The road going out here is perfectly fine and paved all but the last 1000 or so, Now if you keep going south, go over the CN and keep going it turns into a two track swamp road. The photo is kinda blah but it’s a cool operation I think if I remember right it took about a hour and a half from the time the train passed, dumped and returned.
Re: Port Inland Railroad
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:42 pm
by NS3322
Bump
Robertrains will be happy to know that I recently discovered KLWX 81 is now CRGX 610 and assigned to Cargill in Gainesville, GA.
Also, I believe the only public road access (Batty Doe Lake Road) to view the Port Inland Railroad has been closed off as of Spring 2022 as they expand the mine.
Re: Port Inland Railroad
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 8:32 pm
by LansingRailFan
NS3322 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:42 pm
Bump
Robertrains will be happy to know that I recently discovered KLWX 81 is now CRGX 610 and assigned to Cargill in Gainesville, GA.
Also, I believe the only public road access (Batty Doe Lake Road) to view the Port Inland Railroad has been closed off as of Spring 2022 as they expand the mine.
You can drive right up to the gate and kinda see like fifty feet of trackage.
Re: Port Inland Railroad
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:12 pm
by NS3322
It appears the Cedarville operation will be getting three Intramotev TugVolt battery electric railcars. I wonder if the two SW10s will be retired?
With support from the Michigan Mobility Funding Program, Intramotev says it will deploy three TugVolt battery electric railcars at a Carmeuse Americas mining site in Cedarville “to support a new railway that will carry one six-car train of ore per hour.” It will be the first real-world operational deployment of a battery-electric freight railcar capable of operating without a locomotive pulling it, as well as one of the largest scale implementations of industrial robots, according to the company.
https://www.railwayage.com/news/intramo ... echnology/