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Did they have a train die in Rockwood a few hours ago? Saw one parked as I crossed the tracks on Woodruff Rd then there was a second engine that appeared to have pulled the first engine off the train for some reason.

Speaking of The Chicken, here’s Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree/The Pineapple Thief/King Crimson doing a drum solo on David Letterman using bits of The Chicken.

https://youtu.be/99ATD9vTHSE?si=o49GQ54l9JaaTo8O

CAT345C wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:02 pm

When I worked at the A&B only one entity (allegedly) had the GP9 wiring diagrams after they were rewired and they were not an employee, could you imagine trying to fix something all the time with no prints?

Harder, yes, but not impossible if everything is labeled correctly.

The railroad crossing is in the middle of the intersection there. A car accident occurred this morning. The damaged car wasn't moved in time and was hit by the train. Yet another in a long line of car-train collisions that could have easily been prevented by calling the emergency number on the blue...

IORY Southbound out of flat rock. Unknown cars and power as the gates came on after I crossed

RIP MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. Such an influential band and guitar player. Hard to find a band who doesn’t cite him as an influence

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/enter ... 456133007/

I heard ADBF has a couple new engines, a pair of SD40's. Can someone confirm that? They’ve reached an agreement to purchase four GP40s from LSRC. 1162, 1164, 1171 and 1174 https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Lake_State_Railway#Current_LSRC_Locomotive_Roster Why are they also buying the parts sou...

Based on the signal arrangement entering the yard (R/Y), I’m pretty sure there’s an IORY train inbound to Flat Rock as of 3:05.

I see NS and CSX trains on the former NYC going through downriver, with NS taking the southbound traffic and CSX with northbound traffic. NS ownership of the line begins in Gibraltar between Old Fort and Gibraltar Rd. Not 100% sure where CSA ownership begins on the northbound track. Meanwhile on the...

What is the point of CR shared assets? Is it just a zone where they couldn’t evenly divide up trackage between NS and CSX? Or more of a customer idea? The way I understood it was there was 3 areas CSX and NS couldn’t agree how to divide these areas so nobody would have an unfair competitive advanta...

NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough dead at 84 Yarborough put together 83 wins and 319 top 10 finishes in his NASCAR career https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nascar-legend-cale-yarborough-dead Huge, huge, huge loss for the sport. Yes from a historical standpoint but from a current activity standpoint he has...

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:47 pm

You’re not going to see many.

And the majority of the ones you do see won’t be super interesting. It’s a lot of auto racks and intermodal on CSX.

If IORY is going into Flat Rock, they typically reach the yard about 10am and depart sometime in the afternoon. I’ve seen them leave as late as 5pm. Haven’t been able to nail down a schedule so I would guess it’s an as needed thing.

Packard plant

I don’t think Woodhaven stamping will ever see rail service again. That place is barely open as it is these days.

So after confirming with some reliable sources, its happening. I'm not surprised the maintainers don't know anything because the boots on the ground guys are usually the last to know anything, unfortunately. The Dearborn Sub will be upgraded to 40 mph with CTC, PTC, and CWR. This is for new intermo...

This could explain why there’s been a bunch of empty well cars being stored in Flat Rock for close to 2 years.

David Collins wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:48 am

Would they have to take down the arches because of the height of the containers?

If autoracks fit there should be no reason double stacked containers wouldn’t be able to.

They might want to convert from stick rail to CWR while they’re at it

Dearborn Steel changes origins and routes periodically it seems. They used to get coke from Mingo Jct. then W&LE to CSX (Willard) or CN (Toledo). NS had it for a while. It’s difficult for a railfan to keep track of unless they have connections 😉 I haven’t seen a coke train in Flat Rock in at least ...