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I&O updates so far as of June 1st. The I&O Is the only railroad operating between DIANN and Flat Rock currently since CN started interchanging their traffic with NS at Oakwood Yard instead of Flat Rock due to covid19 and the slow economy. The bad news the IORY only goes to Flat Rock from Delta twice...

Talks in the works of road extensions, crossing closures, and more rail served customers locating to the south side of the tracks on the north side of MIlford. Garrett will never go away as a flat switched yard and crew base. https://indianaeconomicdigest.com/Content/Default/Also-In-The-News/Article...

AARR wrote:Do you have an address?

Yes, it is 8650 Mount Elliott Ave.

Located on Detroits far east side near the Detroit Connecting RR, is this operation that sprung up about two years ago. Does this place see any rail service?

Later this year, 300 employees will be losing their jobs and the tin mill and hot strip will be shut down

https://www.wxyz.com/news/cleveland-cli ... _Az6CENtV8

Being a former Columbus resident you don't have to go very far on the Scottslawn Sub to see where the grain trains are placed. You have the elevator at Kileville, two elevators at Marysville including the gigantic Heritage Coop, West Mansfield, and Kenton which is technically on the Toledo Branch.

Many of the articles state that the product will be brought in by ship, Lake States has made a few shipments so far, how involved will the railroad be in inbound and outbound shipments.

This could be happening in the not so distant future, actually it will happen. And it starts in Kansas City at the Ford Claycomo Assembly Plant where Ford will start stamping in house and it ends at Oakwood Yard in Detroit. How will it end? Well this change will spell the demise of the final two NS ...

In the not so distant future, a Michigan businessman is looking at the downriver area to place an electric arc seemless, pipe, and tube mill that will be of steel, nickel and titanium. Maybe they'll place it near Zug Island in two to three years once this old mill is demolished and oil is at the rig...

Does this spell the end of major steelmaking in Detroit? What parts are closing permanently? What will stay operating? What does the future hold for Zug Island as this is a major railroad customer in the Detroit area. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/zug-island-steel-operations-to-be-silenced...

Sounds similar to what happened in the Wellington Ohio derailment last year.

Per a source. for those of you in the Grand Rapids or those visiting Wyoming Yard from out of town. Tonight marks the eve of traffic from out west in Burley Idaho. Tonight CSX is bringing in a reefer in their train consisting of frozen butter and it is destined for a business right there at the edge...

The shipment of rock out of Plum Run that your seeing in southern ohio is part of the stone train explosion that will take place in a few weeks. The CCUT will be glad to be part of this renaissance of customer business.

Its the attack of the stone and ballast trains. Right now stone traffic shipped by rail is rising to meteoric rates in Ohio. It started with the Wheeling and Lake Erie in Carey, NS and CSX in northwest ohio, and now the Cincinnati area near the Indiana border along with a quarry in Melvin are experi...

The borders of Port Huron/Sarnia and Windsor/Detroit rank 2 and 3 in value of goods shipped. 14 billion in total but the Canada United states tallies 8 billion dollars in goods shipped. https://www.progressiverailroading.com/rail_industry_trends/news/North-American-transborder-freight-moved-by-rail-...

That would be pretty cool to see GLC going back to their original TSBY roots in the thumb and I agree with you that HESR has way too many important connections and customers to be abandoned anywhere in their system. The little guys are the ones that will get the boot first like GRE, Michigan Shore, ...

GTW6401 wrote:Can do the same thing in Bay City and Essexville and save 85 miles going up there. They already have transloading in that area.

What if those potential customers don't want to go 85 miles and stay around Oscoda. I wonder what Lake States will do in Alpena?

They may not have the space here due to the Lake Huron, the city, another little lake, and the military base but Im thinking the LSRC can use Oscoda to their advantage and attract customers on the grounds of the wirtsmith afb or start a transload their by the mainline.

The Church and Dwight has been a good customer for NS for years on the Fostoria District. The plant is going through another expansion https://senecasuccess.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/church-dwight-to-invest-38-million-in-seneca-county/?fbclid=IwAR1acPjiqZK_JvItt7TjNx3W6NT96INqJMPRcisnH-U0dT0a2AfOc81B...

If you go up to nearby Kenton, you,ll see some growing activity by the local. The industry base has grown quite a bit here.