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Late update; but Katie was discharged yesterday evening! Lots of sleeping today, it’ll be like that for awhile, but she is home.

https://youtu.be/4QoJDIfnL5M?si=JEcSe9BMgTFyUQX3

My take of the inspection train that ran on the rear of Amtrak 350 and 355 back on April 10th. This is the new style of how I’m going to be making videos, people apparently REALLY liked it. Enjoy!

I believe Ceres Solutions moved all rail operations to White Cloud. I got the drone up this last October while chasing the MQT, while I didn’t take any photos of the facility, I did notice 6-8 CH’s on their lead. Past satellite photos show only 3-4. I did ask my girlfriend for the hell of it since ...

Alright, I got a good Facebook® "Heads Up" for northbound train 382!!!! :mrgreen: Though I thought it passed since I heard a horn around noon! Was that an extra Sunday local? Train 382 had ex EMDX CN SD70ACe #8102 and "Blue" GECX ET44AC #2029 with 156 cars, cleared Masonic Road, Fraser, 1:37 p.m. :...

https://youtu.be/_K-PXy_t96A?si=fqNPGIG1PrsIu72W One of my closest friends from Ferris State was in town, and she wanted to hang out yesterday. However, it just so happens that lives 5 minutes away from the CN Mount Clemens Subdivision. Knowing that M383 usually passes between 8-10am, I decided to g...

I couldn’t post this earlier due to some personal reasons, but heres today’s M383. CN 8102 (SD70ACe, one of only four that CN owns and the only one that can lead in the US to my knowledge) leading, GECX 2029 (one of the last Tier 4 demo units left in service on the CN) and CN 2788 (former citirail E...

What I suspect to be M383 is lined south by 21 mile as of 8:07am.

amessmann wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:08 pm

16:00 - What I presume was E251, westbound by MP 225 M2, 8945, 2720, and 3149 leading mostly racks with some general manifest mixed in.

Yes, 251.

By Mount Clemens depot - 4/19/24: A485 - 23:20 (4/18). A484 - 00:15. X273 - 02:45. L515N - 10:45. M383 - 11:00. L515S - 11:20. X383 - 11:40. L533 - 12:30. M382 - 14:30. Man o' War Per a friend not in the hobby, she couldn’t tell which direction but there was something that went through Chesterfield...

G83217 was parked at Plymouth this AM for GR crew to take to Grand Ledge. Should become G07719 and be moving within the next hour WB. Why did this train need to change symbols? I think it’s because the crew that takes the train out of Walbridge or wherever they get on isn’t qualified on that line o...

TSS wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:38 am

Is any tie work happening on the Plymouth, or are all the ties going to the GR sub side?

If my sources are correct, there should be a partial re-timbering happening on the Plymouth subdivision sometime this year.

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:53 pm

CSX crews from Chicago east to wherever it gets back to CP (Buffalo?).

Yes, Buffalo. Thanks.

When CSX I166/I165 runs (I don’t know the CP ID), does it run with CP crews the entire way (obviously with a crew change or two) since it originates on the CP, runs on the CSX then back to CP? Or is it a CSX crew?

Miraculously, only minor injuries. I know the speed of impact wasn’t high, but I know L743 well from when I lived down south and did my three trips to Folkston that I did. Back then it was A771. It often becomes a key train after it works Waycross (it works Waycross, Baldwin, Wildwood and terminate...

…Hoping everyone is ok. Miraculously, only minor injuries. I know the speed of impact wasn’t high, but I know L743 well from when I lived down south and did my three trips to Folkston that I did. Back then it was A771. It often becomes a key train after it works Waycross (it works Waycross, Baldwin...

Andy24 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:58 pm

I thought the hand throw switch caused the issue of I032 being lined into L732’s occupied track?

That’s how it’s sounding to me now, they were running under EC1’s as I just said.

Well, it got lined into the other guy but how did the system even let that happen? Should be a fascinating investigation, to say the least. It’s actually sounding now as more comes out that the signals were out in Folkston and they were running under EC1’s. They had switch tenders on the switches a...

More photos:

And scanner audio (captions made by yours truly): https://youtu.be/MqzWxJCMuCQ?si=fN4nJk_v9k_T4tnw

CSX I032 and CSX L743 just collided head on at the Folkston turnout in Folkston, Georgia. Injuries are unknown but all signs are pointed at the dispatcher, which per multiple railfans on the ground in Folkston, lined the L743 right into the 032.

MQT1223 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:08 pm

L508 is on his way clear CP Gaines with two SD70M-2’s and an SD60. Has a Southern 86’ autoparts boxcar around a dozen cars back behind the power. Not a long train.

SD60 will be dropped in Pontiac.