Well this could/should be two diffrent trip reports, but I am going to do it all as one.
Knew I was going to get called for work, some time on Saturday, so with it being a nice day, I went to Vickers to do some watching, before hand.
13:14 K90527 HLCX 6076, 7179, & CSXT 8110, (didnt get a car count, as he was pulling north as I was arriving), a 50-50 mix of a Lime train for GR, and MSU coal for East Lansing (coal on bottem).
13:21 Q30428 CSXT 7908, CEFX 3109, & CSXT 4419, 34 cars.
13:20 17M NS 9348, 8931, 9161, & 88??, 107 cars.
13:45 Q15028 FURX 3023 & CSXT 8437, 92 loads, 33 empties (long count), 138 containers. Little did I know I was going to meet these units up close and personal a little later.
Well it was looking dead on both lines for a few minuets, so I herd Q290 comming, and headed up to Woodville Rd., to try a new photo spot.
Q29028 CSXT 8744, 2632, 2623, 2682, 4 autoparts, and 49 auto racks.
Back a Vickers
14:15 15J NS 8345 & 2558, 95 cars.
14:22 Z24727 ( CN 382, crew must have died the night before, and CN didnt have any one to send down, until morning, leaving the train at Stanley yard) CN 5315, 5289, & 5393 (wow thats even getting hard to see now days, a pure lash up of SD40-2W's) with only 36 cars.
14:45 25K NS 9734 & 9025 61 loads, 9 empties (long count), with 94 containers, and 1 trailer.
Well at this time (14:50) the Q290, finally got across the NS, and into the yard.
14:58 17N NS 2606, UP 2921, NS 6519, & NREX 7378, with 91 cars.
15:00 20A NS 9595 & UP 3870, 37 loads, 4 empties, (long count), 50 containers, 4 trailers.
15:36 34N NS 9421, 6764, & UP 9671, with 120 cars.
16:00 26N NS 9789 & 8211, with 68 platforms (long count), and 128 containers.
16:26 21Z NS 2567 & 9898, with 130 loads, 10 empties (long count), with 94 trailers, and 63 containers.
17:20 Q28728 CSXT 8471 & CEFX 3100, with 33 auto racks.
17:32 Z24128 GTW 5933 & 4902, with 57 cars.
17:54 16E NS 9462 & 8779, with 82 cars.
18:02 K38528 CSXT 8370 & CEFX 3123, 116 cars.
18:16 Y59928 CSXT 304 (north bound light unit)
18:17 G96227 CSXT 7371 & HLCX 6320, 65 cars.
18:32 20G NS 9712 & UP 7140, 80 loads, 1 emptie (long count), with 170 containers.
18:36 21Q NS 9263, 9817, & 8450, with 100 loads, 6 empties (long count), with 116 containers, and 38 trailers.
19:34 2?? NS 9838 & 9759, with 96 loads, 7 empties (long count), with 160 containers, and 10 trailers.
It was at this time, that I need to leave to get to work, but I was tempted to stick around, as I keep hearing a O98, talking to 14Q, who was in emergency at the pad, and to the dispatcher. At one time he told the dispatcher, that he was done at the depot, and ready to head east, but after 45 min., nothing ever came.
Called for Q13228, at 19:45, with HLCX 6217 & CSXT 8571, with 11 loads (short count), for 1216 tons, and 1635 feet.
On board at Stanley tower, and departed, at 20:36. We stop at Dry Creek, to let some more trains out ahead of us, at 20:42.
First was as we were comming to a stop, is Q15128, with CSXT 7856 & 8753, with 125 loads, 1 empty (long count), with 163 containers.
Next at 21:06, was the N80025, with CSXT 416 & 8, with 93 cars. Then at 21:20, we see the Q21628, with CSXT 7502 & HATX 915, with 4 auto parts, 48 auto racks, and 41 mixed freight. We depart at 21:34, and stop at Vickers at 21:38. And right away, see our only train, at 21:38, the 85W, with UP 4237 & 9131, with 156 cars, all DME hoppers.
We depart at 21:45, and at Ironville, get stopped for the NS Homested yard remote job, heading back to the yard, with NS 1625 and 8 tanks, at 21:54. We depart at 22:45, and at MI Cabin, comming out of the Docks, is the K18528, with CSXT 388 & 304, with 125 cars. At MI Cabin, on the main we pass the Q13128, with NS 9810 & 8740, with 43 loads, 1 emptie (long count), with 70 containers. At 23:19, we pass the Y20128, with CSXT 8648, starting to double up the pick up. And at 23:26, at Alexis, we pass the southbound, AA 7771, with 1 tank, 2 empty lumber flats, and 3 hoppers.
At Sterns Rd, we pass the Q30528, with HLCX 8156 & CSXT 8202, with 98 cars, at 23:20. Then at Monroe, we pass the G89827, with CSXT 8715 & HLCX 9008, with 65 cars, at 23:50. We arrive at Livernois at 1:42.
1-29-06
Called for Q29930, after 20 hours in the hotel, at 23:45, with FURX 3023 & CSXT 8437, with a departing train of 63 loads, 24 empties, for 8.355 tons, and 5,583 feet. We depart at 01:45, from P Company, where we pass the Q27228, with no power, but 65 cars. We arrive at Plymouth, at Eureka Rd. to make the cut on cars to set off, at 2:55. We arive in the North yard, to set off 9 loads, 5 empties, for 970 tons, and 1,085 feet, at 3:16, and leave at 3:32 to go out to the main at Middle River, and back around the Saginaw wye, into the East yard.
We arive in the east yard, at 3:50, to air test and double up our pick up of 27 loads, 13 empties, for 3.270 tons, and 2,713 feet. We back out of the east yard, and onto our train, at 5:30, and prepair to depart, with 81 loads 32 empties, for 10.655 tons, and 7.079 feet. We depart at 6:10.
At Eureka Rd., we pass the Q27229, with CSXT 8558 & HLCX 6068, with 48 mixed cars for Detroit. At Wood Rd, we pass the northbound Q32230, with CEFX 3119 & HLCX 9035, with 81 cars, at 8:02.
At Ottawa River, at 8:20, we pass the Q39230, with CN 5841, HLCX 9031, CSXT 4784, HLCX 8152 & 6209, with 84 cars. At 9:04, we pass the N95428, with BNSF 5856 & 750, with 119 cars, and arrive at Stanley yard, at 9:20.
As we stopped at Vickers for 10 minuets, to let Q334, into Stanley yard ahead of us, I snapped some photos.
Well we end up sitting in the yard for over a hour, while they hump a track and here is some of what I saw. After that if off for home.
Anyone rember these?
A while back I told about the ex-CSX rotary gons being rebuilt at the old CN Lang yard shops, here is a better photo.
Wheels anyone?
Hump set shoving cars over hump, with CSXT 8577, 8445, & 9123.
The other set of hump power is heading down into S yard, to perpair for shoving a track over the hump.
