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Coal loads east thru Stevensville 21:30. BNSF leader and DPU.

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:43 pm

Amtrak P370-08 @ 21:43 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 16 axles. IDTX engine #4631 & 3 cars.

Over the St. Joseph bridge at 21:49 ET. 2 ventures and and a horizon cafe

What looks to be a loaded coal for the CSX just passed thru Porter IN with a BNSF DPU, nose forward.

Mivers1988 wrote: ↑

Thu May 25, 2023 3:09 pm

Empty coal? passing 94.9 just now

M327 clearing Stevensville now.

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B714-23 (empty ethanol) @ 09:53 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 340 axles. BNSF engines #7428 + #6816 & 82 cars (2 loads + 80 empties) @ 3,222 tons & 4,984 feet. The loaded cars are the “barrier cars” placed at each end of the tank cars. B714-23 west at Stevensville CG 95 a...

P370-26 has a clear indication at Vine CG 92 at 21:05. 16 axles at 91.9 DD. IDTX 4602 leading.
Clear indication at Hilltop CG 90 at 21:08.

Coal east at Vine at 22:33. 532 axles at 91.9 DD.

P370 is going on duty, but no guarantee that they will leave Chicago due to the widespread PTC outage currently pinning down Amtrak today. 50/50 shot whether or not we see it tonight. P370 running about an hour behind schedule currently. Thru Porter at 21:24 ET. Clear indication at Vine at 22:10. I...

Schteinkuh wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 25, 2023 6:44 pm

P370 is going on duty, but no guarantee that they will leave Chicago due to the widespread PTC outage currently pinning down Amtrak today. 50/50 shot whether or not we see it tonight.

P370 running about an hour behind schedule currently. Thru Porter at 21:24 ET.

P001 at Trowbridge at 18:14, L302 thru at 18:28.

LansingRailFan wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:58 pm

13:55 - EB A492 w CN 3319/CN 3853/CN 5430 thru Charlotte

A492 east thru MSU at 14:49 ET.

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M326 on the 91.9 Detector right now. Three six axle units and a four axle unit up front. Thank you Todd :) M326-07 @ 11:50 eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 564 axles (-2 error??). CSX engine #211(?) + 3 & 136? cars. Going over the St. Joseph bridge now. I edited the link to ...

Not sure if it's the FRA making the decision for NS, or if it's NS being proactive, but this just got sent out to all NS crews. A Norfolk Southern spokesman told CNBC that guidance has since been updated and the train carrier is now mandating that any trains over 10,000 feet use distributed power, ...

Mivers1988 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:57 pm

Loaded Coal @ 14:57 eastward at Lakeside

BNSF 6202 lead BNSF 9283 rear DPU, at the SJ bridge now.

L301 westbound thru Benton Harbor now on track #1.

E80005 west at Riverside at 13:20 to track #2.

West Olive empties south at Riley St. Holland 3:25 AM. That was R597-05 with BNSF engine #9170 & 129 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9378 & CSX engines #811 + #3462. He had gone into Grand Jct siding mp CG54 & tied down. R597-05 @ 04:39 westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 540 axles. ...

M32706 west clear at Vine at 1100 ET.