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Grand Elk went by the Elkhart VR camera heading back to Kalamazoo at 8:57am with WAMX 4190 (Wisconsin & Southern paint scheme) and WAMX 4206 leading 62 cars. A mix of mostly box cars, covered hoppers, and tank cars but they also had two loaded NS hoppers and two empty hoppers.

Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 17:48. Wamx 4225, likely 4206 and 18ish cars. I came across this same train last night as it went by Graphics Packaging in Kalamazoo at 19:59. I bet that they stopped and switched a few places out on their way down as they had about 13-15 cars when I saw them.

If you know the time these trains are coming and going then you should be able to catch them on the Porter Junction - Chesterton, IN VR camera. The camera is across the tracks from the two different mainlines that come into Michigan from Porter, IN. I caught a pretty long CSX freight train coming fr...

Grand Elk went by the Elkhart VR cam at 7:49am with WAMX 4225 and WAMX 4206 leading 15 cars into the Elkhart yard. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers and tank cars.


Back towards Kalamazoo at 8:54am with 23 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hopppers and tank cars.

Grand Elk went by the Elkhart VR cam at 8:39am heading back towards Kalamazoo with WAMX 4190 (Wisconsin Southern paint scheme) and WAMX 4209 leading 41 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers, tank cars, a NS hopper car and a loaded center beam.

Will this be serviced by GDLK? From a different article, says address is 14637 S. U.S. 131, so while it's close to the CN/GDLK diamond, definitely looks like GDLK serviced. Yeah this location would most definitely be serviced by GDLK if they ship or receive by rail. I think it would be too difficul...

Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam at 9:42am heading back towards Kalamazoo with WAMX 4209 and WAMX 4189 leading 44 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers and tank cars.

LansingRailFan wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 6:25 pm

EB M302 with CN 3052/CN and mid DPU CN hit a large tree between Marcellus and Schoolcraft around 16:40. They are still stopped and waiting for track crew etc to help. L520 with CN 5436/CN 5441 is tied down in siding at Marcellus as well.

Oh no!

The Grand Elk went by the Elkhart VR cam at 10:10am heading back towards Kalamazoo with WAMX 4190 (Wisconsin Southern paint scheme) and WAMX 4225 (UP paint scheme) leading 41 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers, tank cars and two loaded center beams.

From Herb Theodore in Michigan Railfans group an hour ago: Looks like grand elk hit a car just north of Wayland. I just read that on WWMT. They said it was at the 140th Ave crossing. Car didn’t stop at the stop sign and got hit. No injuries reported. https://wwmt.com/news/local/car-hit-train-allega...

The Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam at 9:30am heading towards the Elkhart yard with WAMX 4189 and WAMX 4209 both LHF leading 15 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers and tank cars. They just went back by the Elkhart VR cam at 11:16am heading back to Kalamazoo with the same power leadin...

The Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam at 9:30am heading towards the Elkhart yard with WAMX 4189 and WAMX 4209 both LHF leading 15 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers and tank cars.

This train had just left the Kalamazoo Amtrak station and hit them at the West Main st crossing. A fence wouldn’t have prevented this fatal accident unfortunately. We were downtown for the Christmas parade when this happened. When we got downtown we parked right across from the Shell gas station on ...

The Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam at 9:41am heading towards the Elkhart yard with WAMX 4125 and WAMX 4209 leading 44 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers, tank cars and four NS hoppers. They just went back by the Elkhart VR cam heading back towards Kalamazoo with WAMX 4209 and WAMX ...

The Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam at 9:41am heading towards the Elkhart yard with WAMX 4125 and WAMX 4209 leading 44 cars. A mix of box cars, covered hoppers, tank cars and four NS hoppers.

Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam heading back towards Kalamazoo at 10:17 am. WAMX 4209 and WAMX 4125 were leading 37 cars which was a mix of box cars, covered hoppers, tank cars and two loaded center beams.

The Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam at 9:54am heading back towards Kalamazoo. It looked like 4189 and 4206 (I could be wrong on those loco numbers) were leading 19 cars. A mix of mostly tank cars and box cars with one covered hopper and two loaded center beams.

So, from those of us not from the area, what movement does a train have to make out of the yard to go north, and what would need to be demolished to fix this? The stuff on west side of Porter Street between Willard and Ransom? BTW, not knowing from which direction most of the traffic comes from, I'...

I think the biggest issue that they run into is when they have to back their train up in order to go North to GR. I don’t understand why they don’t put a switch in from the Amtrak mainline to their mainline heading north. When the train has to back up to then head north it blocks the downtown inter...

https://wwmt.com/news/local/proposed-project-eliminate-three-railroad-crossings-downtown-kalamazoo-michigan-department-transportation-construction-traffic-dennis-randolph?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3g75yvIhYPcaiv_zfST8QsPftaTxLgV_o1kLffcTP0iWfCaKC3CcoI4oE_aem_IWHNxURY4UHIB7vkCg11kQ In an effort to ...