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Q335 has just finished working Plymouth and is headed west to Grand Rapids.

326/327 worked Benton Harbor. 336/337 worked Wixom, mainly autoracks and boxcars for Ford Wixom Assembly. Once those trains were canned, all the traffic came up on Q231 and Q287 (moved to Rougemere when Ford Wixom closed). All non-auto traffic/ MAL traffic was handled by D739, now what's barely lef...

Interesting....wonder if this will directly involve more traffic through Michigan.

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GP30M4216 wrote:Does Plymouth local traffic still go to the Rouge via Q392/Q399 and then by D717 which is a Plymouth North Yard to Rougemere turn?

Yes, that's still the same. D717 now starts out of Wayne and brings autoracks with him to Rougmere, everything else hasn't changed.

CR900945 wrote:Since when does Q321 or Q322 work Plymouth?

They never have. Just comes straight through town.

In addition to the DTE coal trains to St. Clair, CSX has been running occasional eastern coal trains to Essexville as well. They are sporadic, but on a good week CSX has ran 2-3 loads through Plymouth, especially this past fall season.

Y107 is the only Monday-Friday regular yard job in Plymouth. Y205 was the 2nd shift switcher until it was abolished sometime around 2009. I haven't seen or heard a Y303 in almost 2 years unless it only works certain nights.

firemedic54 wrote:NB going thru Rose Township with a UP leader. Missed the numbers though...little slow this morning...

Should of been last night's M322 that spent the night in Wixom waiting for a recrew.

This evening was extremely busy in Plymouth for a short period of time. Starting at 4:00PM: D716-26 went south with one of CSX's newest GP40-3s (first one ever seen doing locals in Plymouth) with 1 boxcar for Home Depot in Romulus. He met Northbound D739-26 at CP John Hix, then had to stop af Wayne ...

The only other regular train that goes through Holly aside from 321/322 is D737, however, he gets out of Plymouth (on a typical day) around 6PM after building their train in North Yard to head north, plus they switch Lincoln Yard in Wixom before they reach Holly. 737's return run to Plymouth is in t...

Here is my opinion CSX has 10-15 a day in Plymouth gets busier further south you go on the Saginaw sub alot of the trains run during the day. Because my Grandma is a half of a mile from the tracks and she can hear them. Though Plymouth can be very busy Because on a day back in August there were 3 t...

The Plymouth area itself sees close to 25 trains on a good weekday. This time of the year when grain and coal (what's left of it) is at it's peak, there are 18-22ish trains per day south of Plymouth. This is on a 24-hour weekday period when the locals are running - makes the area feel busier than i...

The Plymouth area itself sees close to 25 trains on a good weekday. This time of the year when grain and coal (what's left of it) is at it's peak: there are close to 18-22ish trains per day in Plymouth going south. This is on a 24-hour weekday period when all the local trains are running (some of th...

NB/EB W00x is clearing the Toledo Wye in Plymouth and headed towards Detroit. Power is CSX 2484? (YN3 SD50) pulling an open hopper car and two geometry cars (interesting consist).

That's good news! What sorts of box cars? 50's? 60's? Hi-cubes? There was a CSX boxcar at Bay Logistics last week. On a typical week I've been seeing 2-4 boxcars at Bay. Either CSX or CN-family related boxcars and this is recent. A mixture of 50ft and hi-cube boxcars. Regarding Orion Assembly: is t...

I haven't seen any rail cars there in a while and with the aluminum ingot business down to a trickle I doubt we will Bay Logistics south of town does a similar distribution of products to GM plants and receives various boxcars on a regular basis. There was a CSX boxcar at Bay Logistics last week. O...

There's a chance they could use rail service because I read elsewhere that this plant is the supplier to other facilties for the "Big 3" outside of Michigan. Bay Logistics south of town does a similar distribution of products to GM plants and receives various boxcars on a regular basis. They could s...

The SBD painted unit was assigned to D739 for the longest time. This was back when D739 was still based out of Wixom right before and after the Ford Wixom Assembly Plant closed. I remember catching that locomotive setting off cars to the MAL in Wixom in the evening, then making a run-around in Linco...

Nice consist....plus Killswitch Engage as your music track

Light power move WB through Okemos at 13:20. 2 CSX locomotives That's funny, just had light power with two CSX units going EAST not long after that. This one just more power to go to Plymouth to try and move last weeks GRP cars out of Plymouth. Hard to believe, but with 708 running only three days ...