L301-27 @ 14:37:35 westward Bangor, Mi W. Monroe St crossing mp CG60.72 cam with CSX engine #8096 & 14 cars.
L301-27 @ 16:03:49 eastward Bangor, Mi W. Monroe St crossing mp CG60.93 cam with CSX engine #8096 & 11 cars.
L301-27 @ 14:37:35 westward Bangor, Mi W. Monroe St crossing mp CG60.72 cam with CSX engine #8096 & 14 cars.
Anybody know the origin of the (scrap metal) gondola loads at the head end of the train? The cars had mud all the way up their sides around the wheels. Did they come from one of the shortlines?
E800-27 @ 10:07 westward Holland Depot mp CG25.3 with BNSF engine #8108 & 130 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9218 & CSX engines #3468 + #7005. He’ll be setting off the CSX power in the east end of Wells siding mp CG41.4 The coal cars have a mix of yellow & red markings for the rotary coupler ends instead of the usual green.
There are 2 customers in Grand Rapids where they load scrap metal onto those gondolas. It did rain last few days and it was pretty muddy when I came by yesterday and the day before. Sometimes I see muddy scrap metal get loaded on the machine operators in the 2 scrapyards.TSS wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:02 amAnybody know the origin of the (scrap metal) gondola loads at the head end of the train? The cars had mud all the way up their sides around the wheels. Did they come from one of the shortlines?
They had to run a distance over poor tracks with ties working mud—but also be going fast enough to pump/fling that mud up to the car tops. So it probably didn’t happen in the scrapyard itself, where tracks are usually buried in mud.
The rest of the train was clean, so it didn’t happen on the GR Sub.
CSX has 4 customers in West Michigan that load scrap. Beacon Recycling, Padnos Front St, Padnos Turner St, and Padnos Holland.Andy24 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:38 amThere are 2 customers in Grand Rapids where they load scrap metal onto those gondolas. It did rain last few days and it was pretty muddy when I came by yesterday and the day before. Sometimes I see muddy scrap metal get loaded on the machine operators in the 2 scrapyards.TSS wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:02 amAnybody know the origin of the (scrap metal) gondola loads at the head end of the train? The cars had mud all the way up their sides around the wheels. Did they come from one of the shortlines?
They had to run a distance over poor tracks with ties working mud—but also be going fast enough to pump/fling that mud up to the car tops. So it probably didn’t happen in the scrapyard itself, where tracks are usually buried in mud.
The rest of the train was clean, so it didn’t happen on the GR Sub.
There was 6 CSX gondolas loaded with scrap metal at one customer and 6-8 gondolas that were being loaded from another customers. Most common gondolas used by those customers are:
CSX, DJNX, ITFX, BO, NYC, SBD, KWCX, MGPX, RMGX, and NSSX