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As far as 2 railroad lines in Battle Creek: Other than CN, there is the former NS line now owned by MDOT. Amtrak operates and dispatches it. NS has trackage rights over MDOT from Town Line in Dearborn to BO Tower in Kalamazoo for freight service. West of Wayne, there is little NS traffic which woul...

Conrail began serving the new Home Depot Distribution Center in Warren on Wednesday, September 18th. It is located at the former GM Warren Transmission Plant property on Mound Road north of Nine Mile Road. First car in was GTW 384512. Photos from Conrail President and COO Brian Gorton's LinkedIn: 16...

Which train is this? It was apparently carrying corn oil, but no cars tipped or anything. Train derailment in northwest Lansing LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – A locomotive and four tanker cars derailed Friday afternoon in northwest Lansing. The train, which was transporting corn oil for Adrian and Blissfi...

I have heard rumors that CN wants to make Snow Yard bigger in Lansing so it can be used for Autorack trains amd intermodal trains (possibly mixed freights also) I wanna know if this "rumor" about making Snow Yard bigger true What is the source for the rumors you've heard? A buddy who lives on the C...

Why would they do that with both Battle Creek Yard and Bristol Yard (Flint) just down the line? I believe Lansing currently just has the local crew for R933 switching 4-5 local industries (Citizens, Lansing Asphalt, Biewer, Land O'Lakes-Purina, UFP), the JAIL interchange, and the GM Delta Assembly p...

How many customers are located in the complex of plants west of Delta? I count at least three different companies that could be using rail service all on the cluster of property north of the NS and west of the IORY. https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Indiana_%26_Ohio#DT.26I_Subdivision_Customers

redside20 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:59 am

To put on the wiki customer page. On Ohio Central subsidiary Columbus and Ohio River, Reagent Chemical located and installed a truck to rail transfer station here in which hydrochloric acid is brought in by tank car and shipped out by truck.

Is this at the former CARBO Ceramics transload?

Discussed recently on the Michigan board: http://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=39428 When I used to drive to Elkhart and surrounding areas for delivery work on the regular, the E&W from Elkhart ran right by one of my stops. They were ALWAYS running Tuesday and Thursday. Not once did the...

4 trains a day. 2 Southbound and 2 Northbound. Plus the occasional stone train (as needed).

Symbols 102, 503, and 700.


https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Grand_Elk

Buster Manning wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:48 am

The new WSOR engine was sitting next to the station with the black engine right next to it with someone doing some work on it.

I believe the ex-NS FURX units Watco was leasing went off lease at the start of October. Did you note the WSOR locomotive number?

AARR wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:54 pm

Thank you, Nick. If you observe more, please post them here. I enjoy the logistics/operations of railroading.

All that info is on the Wiki:
https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/ ... #Customers

Anyone have any type of timing or schedule for the Port Inland Railroad or the mining railroad at Cedarville? I believe both are now mostly inaccessible to the public, unless you trespass. I think the Cedarville operation does cross at least 2-3 public roads via bridges. Timing or schedule varies. ...

Rode on the Portage Bikeway by Builders FirstSource in Portage today and noticed the spur had the rails dug up and cleared. Are they expecting a car soon?

Also is Tekmodo in Three Rivers now using rail?

The pebble lime from Graymont should be the only traffic interchanged with CN.

I've always wondered if Port Inland (Carmeuse) brings cars to the interchange or if CN runs down to the plant?

OSRR wrote: ↑

Sat May 04, 2019 8:16 pm

Does anyone have a list of the current roster?

Info might be outdated. I never got around to building a customer list for KNWA...
https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/ ... r_Railroad

Wait till SecondCreek finds the Paper Railroads section...

Did NDW get an ex-NS switcher? It is sitting in the Napoleon transload yard in March 2023 Google Streetview. I have not found any other photos of it...
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4040332 ... ?entry=ttu

Your best bet is to start in White Pigeon and then check to see if they are at Atlantic Packaging in Sturgis. I believe Atlantic Packaging is the only Sturgis customer that gets switched every weekday. Pigeon River Materials/Elkhart Plastics in White Pigeon and Atlantic in Sturgis are currently the ...

Hi- I will be in Grand Haven in a couple of weeks over a weekend. I was curious if Michigan Shore operates on Saturdays, and if so, about what time does the train pass through? Thanks Unfortunately the Michigan shore is a five day week operation and you will not be seeing any trains in Grand Haven ...

Former troop sleeper that was used as a yard office is still around. It was moved a couple blocks east and is behind the Cheboygan County Historical Museum on Court St. It was placed on a pair of regular freight car trucks on a panel of track. It's visible in aerial views of Cheboygan. Don't believ...