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Fri May 17, 2024 1:32 pm

There was a bit of time somewhere between 2006 and 2008 that D700 was based in Holland, and started their work going west, ending up in Holland for the night.

Right you are. IIRC they also tried that for a bit in the 2019-2020 era as well.

L301, formerly D700, is advertised to run from Grand Rapids to Sawyer and back. It used to be advertised all the way to New Buffalo, and was the highest paying job on the Chicago Division due to the mileage ran and the kind of service the pay rate dictated (road switcher). Yes, they handle all of th...

Track work is underway at the former sand plant in Livingston on CSX. The new business is supposed to be doing something with cement by rail. Will be some more work for L301. Heinz in Holland on the CSX Dock Track just got the contract to make sauce for Taco Bell, should be seeing more boxcars of to...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53716710066_83ed020a6c_z.jpg CYDX SW9 #710 by Jonathon Leese , on Flickr A former Apalachicola Northern SW9, which spent decades in Florida hauling stone, now leads a decidedly quieter life switching (ironically) stone cars at Stone Co in Grand Rapids. 5/4/2024 h...

M32617 is set to run with CSX 4706 and 4713. It may also interest some of you to know that as of 5/18, all of the LSRC traffic to and from Chicago will now be moving via Detroit and Grand Rapids instead of Toledo. L314/315 (or whatever the Walbridge to Wixom locals are) will now be a Detroit-Wixom t...

One of the reasons CSX is putting so much money into the bridge is that they hope to remote it soon. Apparently they have an office in Evansville, IN, that already handles the remote operations of 6 other CSX bridges. The Coast Guard has yet to sign off on the removal of the on-site bridge tender, b...

Sounds like CSX has reinstated M326 and M327 back to 7 days per week.

X326-15 @ 08:10 copied his EC1 at mp CG97.5 with CSX engine #3019 leading will proceed eastward when Amtrak P371-15 clears by Livingston siding mp CG97.4 Amtrak P371-15 @ 08:28 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 20 axles. IDTX engine #4613 & 4 cars (Venture Busine...

Per a conversation with L301 and MOW, X327 was called for noon in GR.

L303 east with an Approach Slow at CH 146 in Kentwood 11:56.

What about the MQT grainer from last week?

There you have it. The ruling eastbound grades are Fox (1%), Thornapple (.99%), and Ann Pere (1.2%). Westbound are Salem (.95%), Lake Odessa (1.8%), and Thornapple (.89%).

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53705471040_5b86a9df0b_z.jpg Blue Island by Jonathon Leese , on Flickr L503 rattles across the IHB diamonds at Blue Island, headed east on the former GTW (now CSX) Elsdon Subdivision. 4/21/2024 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53707709480_c5057f47e6_z.jpg CH 1...

Per a friend in Chicago, Seaboard System unit is supposed to be trailing on M326 today.

Driving over the yard at West Olive last night around 20:30, the CSX pushers were tied onto a set of loads and a set of BNSF power was in the fuel track.

L303-10 @ 16:30 Grand Rapids mark up with the RN Dispatcher with: CSX engines #5375 + #421 leading - no consist info was given. He’s ready to depart & will be re-crewed at "Kraft Road near the airport" (their words, I have no mile post info for this location). C801-09 @ 16:32 eastward reported by t...

L302 west at Thornapple 23:41.

Y106 west at Breton Ave in Grand Rapids 11:58.

Y106 east by CH 146 in Kentwood 09:25.

Most certainly. Conrail wasn't spilt up because it failed, it was so successful that CSX and NS entered a bidding war because they both wanted it badly. In the end, CSX got 48% and NS got 52%. The intent behind Conrail, at least initially, was never to keep it around long term. It was seen as a temp...