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donnieland wrote:d801 southbound in the roost block at 406pm
empties to chicago at this time

Mr Hall took off after them after they left Wyoming Yard... I was hangin with him from about 1-2pm waiting for them..i wonder if he stuck it out until now to catch them heading south, then west with their empties..

On the drive in this morning, between 8:25am and 8:55am, I heard the following: Amtrak P371 clearing Saugatuck at 8:30, and them clearing Wells around 8:45am. CSX K351(empty Coke express) departed Wyoming Yard around 8:30, heading east through town. CSX D801 is at the engine house in GR getting set ...

Barely looks like a "train" to me...

Mr Hall just called in at 12:15pm... Q326 is in Grand Rapids preparing their train... X500 is either about to leave or has left GR now. He mentioned that the Holland/Benton Harbor local D700 is indeed based out of Holland.. i know they had been switching back and forth, but seems to be out of Hollan...

326 siding to main at east waverly 1043am hlcx 7195 ld - trail hlcx 8173 & csx 7807 quick car count approx 115 cars Wow, Q326 is actually getting to GR on one crew... I heard D802 yesterday also doing that pickup at Waverly.. had i believe 3 tracks that they were pulling cars out of. Surprised to h...

GLC 392 wrote:ok, yeah i was at clara's in lansing eating my B-day dinner and it went by and was there for 2 more hours.

A time that it went by, where you were, and what direction it was going is most helpful... at least maybe someone will see it heading west out of grand rapids later tonight/morning.

Few notes from the mornin hours... heard a CSX N956 heading east through GR, BNSF engine leading, clearing Fox around 8:45am. CSX Q326 was working on their pickup at Waverly yard at 8:50am. There was a coal train dead at Grand Junction..I believe they said it was a West Olive one.. Helper crew was o...

Here's this animation for the movie Back to the Future..it repeats when it's done, but cool how they made clips throughout the movie.

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And this one with Darth Vader from Star Wars just cracks me up...
http://vaderfortune.ytmnd.com/

Off on the lunch break, and as soon as I get out, I hear the defect detector in Zeeland sound off, 500+ axles... turns out that's an empty coal train, heading west towards Chicago... Anyway, dispatcher lines them through the signals at Zeeland, and they get a red at E Waverly. Ahead of them, Q326 is...

Please let us know about the travels with B-17...i'm interested to hear just how they run...sounds much like the old B-19..you'll be sure to get some pics along the PCBT near Kilgore, now will ya?

Armored Saint is actually the name of the band... came out in 1982...

Here's a video for a cool railroad song that they did... Last Train Home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDBBb-CzCM0

Since daylight saving is now starting, you will probably need to reset your time in your profile. After you are logged in, click on your profile link at the top, and edit the "Timezone" choice in your profile. For those in the Eastern Time Zone (here in MI), here's an example. You should change it t...

Holy bejesus batman... glad you're safe. In Bay City even, not Saginaw like your usual runins. Not cool man.

Anybody know what's up with NS? They haven't picked up at the GRE in a week. The GRE pulled all the outbound and put them in the yard today. They had a number of cars for King but were't back yet at 4:15 so I don't know if they put them back on the outbound track. I think they tried to go to King y...

Caught Q326 heading through Zeeland this afternoon... 3 older CSX engines online, with 104 cars behind them. This was around 1:40pm. This evenin, stopped for gas on the way home, and heard D908 stopped out at Fox...dispatcher was clearing them by quite a few red signals out here.. Went down to the b...

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Grand Rapids will be better when I get the scanner online at home and can fan from home easier.

Heard a few things mosing about this morning... Amtrak P371 was clearing the Holland depot as of 8:35am. Marquette Rail was northbound through Grand Rapids at 8:25am. Heard a D801 at Wyoming Yard.. plus some engines switching over in Holland. Here's some other notes as well from this morning: 36e ha...

Added a new forum for the pics of the day/week/month/year for all of the threads that were in the off subject area. The hope is that this will keep all of these polls together so that it's easier to work on the weekly/monthly/yearly polls instead of scrolling through the off subject area for them. I...

Thank you Bob, as that better explains the D908 that I heard this morning around 8:30am heading into Grand Rapids.. i thought it might be the D908 that was halted at Elmdale last night around 6:30pm on their way into GR, but they must have gotten the goahead to head to the yard last night. All too s...

Here's a pic from the gallery of GT 4918, although this is the newer version you weren't looking for... Click the thumbnail to view: http://railroadfan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10010/thumb_GT%204918.JPG It's from a Lansing native, Gregg P Welcome to the site, hope you find it useful. Admin edit.....