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GDLK Z439 CSX transfer with 19 cars returning to Elk home rails 10:35 at Godfrey/Grand Rapids, GP35 pair 3531 and 3534 leading. 6 boxcars, 2 tanks, balance covered hoppers.

Grand Elk Z439 heading east at Godfrey 10:35 19 cars with geep 35s for power.

CSXT Y197 with 6549 east off the Service Track toward Plaster Creek 10:50 with a boxcar, a high side cotton seed gon and a covered hopper.

Nice to see a reefer at the MNS dock at Judd.

Question for the Lake State fans: on the Wiki train 327 originates at “Pinconning Terminal.” What and where is this? I thought Pinconning was just the connection point where the Huron Sub ties in with the Mackinac Sub. Is there more to it?

Y121 engine 6085 heading down the Hamilton Branch at 16th street holland with 5 bulkhead flats and a boxcar.

A good chunk of the MQT roster is slumbering on the north side of Grant for the weekend with a 45(ish) car northbound train at the Nelson’s crossing. 3391 leading, with a pair of yellow geeps, the B&P SD, and new arrival 3413 in the 5th position. Good location for roster shots right along M37. Also?...

M326-03 @ 16:53 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG44.2 Pearl, Mi with 500 axles. CSX engines #3217 + #3161 & 122 cars. M326-03 @ 17:43 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG19.1 Zeeland, Mi with 500 axles. Lots of tie gondolas up front on M326 today. Is the G090 eventually bound...

The book “Trackside Around Detroit Downriver 1946-1976 with Emery Gulash” by Jerry A. Pinkepank has a great 4 page spread chronicling PRR operations to and through Carleton including the DT&I interchange there. There are also several photos of DT&I trains at Carleton Diamond although none with scene...

David I’m not sure how far back into history you are looking, but as you may know, White Cloud was once a junction town where the Grand Rapids-Traverse City line (today the MQT) crossed the Muskegon-Big Rapids line. White Cloud East was abandoned fairly early, and I’m not sure when exactly the White...

Thanks to the Clarke Library at CMU, a significant chunk of the Lake County Star has been digitized and is searchable online, including 1966, when passenger trains 25/26 did indeed run for the last time. Here’s a screenshot of the photo that accompanies the article: Lake County Star 11-03-1966 last ...

I take it then levers were in the depot itself to line movements at one point? Yes. https://www.michiganrailroads.com/stations-locations/103-kalamazoo-county-39/1104-vicksburg-mi [/quote] Yes, the operator in the depot controlled the diamond. But, it didn’t have a big interlocking machine as found ...

Per KenB's post 2/2021. NO spat between Conrail and USS. The DC contacted the NS and cut a deal to keep their people working... Thank you. If the steel comes from the NS, does it come to DC via the Boat Yard Line and over the 141 and Short Cut drawbridges? Also, on aerial maps you can see there is ...

Congratulations to the Vicksburg Historical Society as their Vicksburg Union Depot was listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service earlier this month! The 1904-built high style depot stood at the diamond of the GR&I mainline north to Mackinaw City and the GTW Chic...

Y121 worked two of Zeeland’s three customers today, setting off a centerbeam load at Zeeland Lumber, and picking up a covered hopper from Van den Bosch Feed which was dropped off on Wednesday. My Van den Bosch industry thread has been updated.

It’s been quite some time since I’ve railfanned any part of the LSRC (other than a brief stint at Holly), but I’ll share what I know about locations. You may need to do a little legwork on train operating times. The Lake State wiki page on this site lists all of the symbols and customers across all ...

I recently came upon this informative map of the Delray Connecting trackage and interchange locations/and some current and former major customers. I think the Ecorse side of the USS Great Lakes Works is still open to some extent. Detroit EES Coke Battery on Zug Island is still open and CN presently ...

10:15am Grand Elk is on the Elkhart VR cam at the moment waiting to get clearance from dispatch to continue on to Kalamazoo. @10:37am The Grand Elk just went by the Elkhart VR cam heading back to Kalamazoo with WAMX 4189 and WAMX 4209 leading 34 cars. It consisted of covered hoppers, tank cars, two...

Grand Elk Z439 interchange brought 9 cars from the csx to Hughart just before lunch today, a mix of boxcars and covered hoppers. One csx boxcar had zero blue paint left and was basically all rust. Nice to see the Geep 35 pair in action!

Z439 Grand Elk 3534 and 3531 with 9 cars clear Godfrey returning to home rails 12:15. Z151 is making moves to finish building their outbound train. Y106 westbound at Thornapple a few minutes ago.

Beacon recycling has at least 7 gons in their facility.

W085 hitting downtown Holland, not dumping here, 16:50.

Clear Zeeland, 17:12, engine UP 7134 trailing.

I can’t believe it! None of those 3 UP engines looked like they had caught fire!

I have wondered this as well! In addition to 6th street, you can see them between the buildings just south of the Dock Track crossing and north of 6th street, where I shot this photo from this morning. There wasn’t time to inspect them more carefully. Both appear to have had overhead roofwalks, dati...