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17:06 - L305-19 thru Trowbridge with 2047 and 8054 leading 11 cars. ZVBX 1052, 97084, 1053, and 76035 in the mix. 18:17 - L302-19 thru Webberville with 67 cars behind 7267 and 5474. ZVBX 625751 and 18021 towards the front. They asked the RN about L303, who said "they haven't left Grand Rapids yet." ...

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.

They will take M1 at Mill (MP 215) for an EB who hasn't passed Walton yet.

G077-19 had 372 and 305 for power, a YN2 pair leading my count of 88 cars. They had cleared Beck Rd (CH 51 and NOT CH 27) at 11:37. This was G832-17 between Walbridge and Plymouth, was this that G790 I had mentioned a few days ago prior to becoming G832?

pudgy wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:25 am

L302 skipped Lansing work to make GR.

They were delayed significantly east of Plymouth, as was L303 I had thought. Unsure why.

"Crew OD for B23516 at 23:01. Going for Webberville" mentioned in a private chat... they made it to Plymouth around 07:00 this morning. I do not know the power.
There is also a G790 at Walbridge, I suppose B235 explains why they hadn't moved in days.

17:43 - L302 calling an approach for CH 49, sounds like L305 is stopped east of Ann Pere.

Any mention of 302? 17:54 - L302 thru WE Brighton with 581, 5379, and 4057 leading 91 cars. Calling CH 51 at 17:58. Two ex-C&NW hoppers with coal, and lots of MOCX hoppers towards the end, in addition to three Cryo-Trans reefers. ZVBX 625751 and 18021 up front, and two PDNX gondolas numbered 625621...

12:40 - L305 east thru Trowbridge with 26 cars behind 4017 and 8054. They had a medium approach at the WE and crawled to about Farm Ln. where they called a clear for the EE and accelerated. 13:54 - L305 on the radio with dispatch, heard them lock up at Webberville and receive the okay to unlock at K...

00:00 - L304 made a run to Trowbridge this evening.

At MP 225 on the CN Flint Sub: 15:10 - WB on M1 with 8818, 8014, and UP 7442 leading. 15:14 - M394 east on M2, 3171 and 2811 leading. Great timing as neither train appeared to drop below 20mph for the running meet. 8818 west would take M1 at Mill for M302. 16:05 - M302 crawling east on M1 to meet E...

Pictures are going around of new conduit installed at WE Williamston which is similar to those I took pictures of in Grand Ledge last fall. Multiple runs of orange flexible conduit stick out near the WAS for the main track, and a single conduit sticks out on the other side of the tracks. If you look...

12:18 - L305 east thru WE Trowbridge with 4017 and 8054 leading my count of 41. Lots of gondolas and covered hoppers.

19:42 - L500 east by the station at East Lansing. 2270 solo leading 19 cars. There was a single rack in the mix. 02:23 - WB thru the station with 5754 leading mostly racks, will take M1 at Mill for an EB. 03:11 - EB thru MP 225 on M2. M-2 and an old GE leading intermodal and racks. Possibly Z148 tho...

18:00 - GLC getting the light north into Durand. Were headed north thru Chilson around 15:15.

We have had 12 sets of empty/loaded grain trains since the beginning of the year, 25 total trains counting the latest G077. This post lists all 25 movements with their symbols, destination, power, car count, and the time and place where I had seen them or they were reported from otherwise. I also in...

RoyalKingoftheRails wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:46 pm

E280 on the Chicago Wye as of 10:44 PM. BNSF leader

One more I regret not going out for. One I did see however was Z148, thru MP 225 at 22:54. No numbers but intermodal and racks led by a 1st gen GEVO and a 5700 series unit, maybe 5724.

It was my choice to show them this way over the G076 designation as I despise using the generic numbers when possible. I opted to handle this with two sections on my spreadsheet, one for the symbol they used when running past us, and one for the symbol they had going in or out of Plymouth. Speaking...

21:02 - G077 west through South Lyon. CSXT 3184 leading, per radio. Trailing unit should be CSX 3319, this entire train was seen on the Princeton Cam on 04/02/24 at 12:05 CDT These units (3184 and 3319) led the second to last Webberville run which returned to Plymouth as G789-22. The axle count com...

GTW6401 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:43 pm

E251 had CN 2321, 2616, 3348, 3251, IC 2720, 5791.

West past MP 225 at 16:38, they had M1 and met an EB at Okemos. Said EB had 8802, 8801, and 2607 and stopped at Okemos on M2 after clearing out what looked to be a school club from around the tracks at Bouge St.

Don't believe I have heard his before, if i means anything, but the load went out as G076-02. You surely had, as two G076s had been reported by you on both 08/21/2022 and 03/06/2023, both from Grand Ledge. In addition, a G076 ran from Webberville on 05/05/2023. These according to a search of "G076"...