CSX Train Location Updates: July, 2020

[Tom49801]

Q326-05 @ 11:26am with CSX #7201 leading reported "clear Joy". From what I'm seeing, Joy is an Absolute Signal between mp CG124 & CG125 (?).

Joy is the name of the next signal east of the east end of the siding at Michigan City. At one time it was the holdout signal for the Monon diamond.

Thank you for the Joy info. Was this signal removed, or, does it still display a signal to this day? Do you recall how long ago that diamond was removed?
Edit: I just saw the Joy Holdout signal on Google Street view with its newer style signals.

[Jochs]

Q326-05 is currently going through Benton Harbor. Sounds like CSXT 7201 leading.

[Saturnalia]

Q326-05 @ 11:26am with CSX #7201 leading reported "clear Joy". From what I'm seeing, Joy is an Absolute Signal between mp CG124 & CG125 (?).

Joy is the name of the next signal east of the east end of the siding at Michigan City. At one time it was the holdout signal for the Monon diamond.

Thank you for the Joy info. Was this signal removed, or, does it still display a signal to this day? Do you recall how long ago that diamond was removed?
Edit: I just saw the Joy Holdout signal on Google Street view with its newer style signals.

Per my notes and confirmed by the Streetview images, Joy Holdout is still an absolute in both directions. Note that there is a CP sign (for PTC) in both directions and no number plates.

Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7001932 ... 384!8i8192

[Jochs]

Q326-05 is currently going through Benton Harbor. Sounds like CSXT 7201 leading.

Now going through Riverside. Sounds like Q327-05 goes on duty in about an hour or so.

[SD80MAC]

Q326-05 @ 11:26am with CSX #7201 leading reported "clear Joy". From what I'm seeing, Joy is an Absolute Signal between mp CG124 & CG125 (?).

Joy is the name of the next signal east of the east end of the siding at Michigan City. At one time it was the holdout signal for the Monon diamond.

Thank you for the Joy info. Was this signal removed, or, does it still display a signal to this day? Do you recall how long ago that diamond was removed?
Edit: I just saw the Joy Holdout signal on Google Street view with its newer style signals.

The diamond was located at the east end of the siding in Michigan City and I believe the Monon was abandoned in the late 70s or very early 80s.

[Jochs]

Q326-05 is currently going through Benton Harbor. Sounds like CSXT 7201 leading.

Now going through Riverside. Sounds like Q327-05 goes on duty in about an hour or so.

Currently going through Watervliet. Sounds like no work in Holland today, they're going straight to Grand Rapids.

[Tom49801]

Q326-05 @ 1:27:50pm Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSX #7201 leading & 118 cars & rear CSX #3219. No Hi-Wide loads were on the train & is running non-stop to Grand Rapids.
Q327-05 @ 3:05pm is getting his signal in Grand Rapids. CSX #3199 & probably has the CSX #3437, too. @ 3:26pm he's shifting around inside Grand Rapids & don't know if he's to make a pick up at Waverly/Holland.
Q326-05 @ 3:09pm reported by the DD at mp CG19.1
Q327-05 @ 3:42pm reported from Grandville mp CG6.

[GP30M4216]

Bangor camera chat says Q327 will be stopping at Waverly Holland. A string of tanks and covered hoppers was tied down in Holland siding west of 112th on Friday, looked like it might be MSRR traffic. That may be for pickup.

[Tom49801]

Q327-05 @ 4:08pm reported by the DD mp CG19.1 w/ 56 axles & 835 feet long. CSX engines #3199 + #3437 & 11 cars - going into Waverly/Holland to pick up cars.
Q327-05 @ 5:24pm reported by mp CG30 westward.
Q327-05 @ 6:19:22pm Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with CSX engines #3199 + #3437 & 18 cars. He had picked up 7 cars from Waverly/Holland.

[Jochs]

Q327-15 is currently going through Riverside. Sounds like CSXT 3199 leading.

[Jochs]

Q327-15 is currently going through Riverside. Sounds like CSXT 3199 leading.

Currently at Hilltop.

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P370-05 @ 8:59pm was reported by the DD mp CG108.9 with 20 axles & 398 feet long.
N801-05 @ 9:02pm has his signal, siding to main e/e New Buffalo siding mp CG113.9 BNSF engine #6706 leading. He was waiting on Amtrak.
Amtrak P370-05 @ 9:52:17pm Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with engine #4606 & 4 cars. 1 passenger off.
N801-05 @ 9:53pm reported by the DD at mp CG91.9 with 532 axles. BNSF engines #6706 + 1 & 130 loaded coal cars.
N801-05 @ 10:10pm reported clear of the St Joseph Bridge.

[Jochs]

I heard P370 go through Stevensville around 9:15 pm when I was at Dairy Queen.
N801-05 is currently going through Riverside. Sounds like BNSF 6706 leading.

[Tom49801]

​N801-05 @ 11:04:40pm Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with BNSF engines #6706 + 1 & 130 loaded coal cars.
At this time D700-05 is still inside Grand Rapids putting his train together. He was reported by the DD mp CG19.1 eastward as a 6 axle lite engine & sounds like it's the BNSF #5479. Yesterday, D801-02 had the BNSF #8418 + #5479 & 130 loaded coal cars & the CSX pushers #3266 + #3209 & later the BNSF engines were taken to Holland.

[trnwatcher]

11:43 EDT D70006 WB GRANDVILLE. LOCO NUMBER GOT STEPPED ON.

[Tom49801]

D700-05 @ 12:05am westward reported by the DD at mp CG19.1 with 206 axles & 2,557 feet long. BNSF #5479 + 50 cars going into Holland. Dispatcher had told him he's to get the cars together for Q327-06's pick up.

[cnw8835]

Q327 through Grandville at about 0640. CSX 3219 & 7201. Large cut of autoracks right behind the power. Highballing the work at Waverly.

[donnieland]

371 clear 112th 640a
clear pair east Saugatuck 656a
clear pair grand junction 728a
327 clear vrisland 657a
clear 112th 709a
clear Holland 715a
as jon reported
327 has 3219 ld and 1 6 axle - then 29 auto racks and 2 bulkhead flats last - 31 cars total consist today no work waverly

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P371-06 @ 07:35:29am at Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with engine #4606 & 4 passenger cars (6 people boarded).
Amtrak P371-06 @ 08:16am cleared the St Joseph Bridge.
Q327-06 @ 08:24:18am at Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with CSX engines #3219 + #7201 & 31 cars (29 auto-racks + 2 Bulkhead flats).
Q327-06 @ 09:28am cleared the St Joseph Bridge.

[dave989]

The MOW stuff was at Grand Junction. The Herzog ballast train was in Wyoming yard.