CSX Train Location Updates - December 2020

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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E800-30 @ 11:29pm westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 532 axles & 6,922 feet long. BNSF engines #8589 + #6275 & 130 empty coal cars.
E800-30 @ 11:47:15pm westward Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35

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thursday dec 31 371 and 327
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603a - wb pleasant st
609a - restricting plaster creek
613a - clear lamar
620a - clear grandville
626a/630a - clear ee/we hudsonville
636a - 19.1 - 16 axles, 306'
641a - clear 112th and waverly
644a/648a - arr/depart holland
657a - clear pair east saugatuck
713a - 44.2 - 16 axles, 393'
722a - clear pair grand junction

327
610a - slow clear lamar odd to 1 tk - building consist
640a - app med ivanrest
650a - clear dewent
655a/659a - clear ee/we hudsonville
712a - 19.1 - 364 axles, 4909'
715a - clear east wy and waverly
3141 lead, 88 cars, and 743 rear dpu
working waverly off main holland
730a - clear holland - hamilton switch lined for old siding
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D700-30 @ 02:12:42 westward Bangor mp CG60.7 with CSX engines #4010 + #2652 & 13 cars.
D700-30 @ 04:05:55 eastward Bangor mp CG60.7 with CSX engines #2652 + #4010 & 2 cars (Reefer + CH).
Surprised to see they ran last night, their schedule is Sunday, Tuesday, & Thurs. nights by Bangor.

Amtrak P371-31 @ 07:29am westward Bangor's Cenrer St crossing mp CG60.35 with IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiner cars (3 passengers had boarded at the station mp CG60.5)
Amtrak P371-31 @ 08:10am westward reported clear of the St Joseph Bridge.

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Yesterday's D70630 had 67 cars east of Lansing. CSX finally found a couple of body's to work a local east of Lansing overnight for Ann Pere work for the first time in a week Albeit D70730 which keeps the string of no D708 trains going. They brought 63 cars for GLC, (half of them ash cars) went to Brighton to run around them by 05:15, came back to park them on the main and pick up the 76 GLC cars sitting here since Sunday. Departed back to Lansing by 08:30. Power was 388+8088 heading east, both units facing east. This makes Tom49081 correct in his assumption that 388 came to Lansing on D706 within the last week to ten days.

What is ironic by D707 coming to Howell, while they were running around their train In Brighton, GLC came across the diamond heading back north from Ann Pere with neither them or D707 knowing each other was around. Parish the thought that it would ever happen, but if GLC & CSX worked together, GLC could have taken the 63 set off cars back north with them. With another holiday and weekend approaching, it would neat if took GLC a week to get back to Ann Pere again, like it took CSX, and those 63 cars parked on the main could be sitting there for a week. Sort of like what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

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So it was 707 I just got west? Stopped now at Ensel. 8008 leading and 388 second. Both still facing east
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Q327-31 @ 09:47am westward reported from mp CG32.0 with CSX engine #3141 leading & CSX #743 as a rear DPU. He had 88 cars going into Holland to pick up more.
Q326-31 @ 09:59am eastward reported from Riverside mp CG80.1 with CSX engine #3436 leading.

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bluewonderrails wrote:
Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:40 am
So it was 707 I just got west? Stopped now at Ensel. 8008 leading and 388 second. Both still facing east
Yes technically d707.

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Q326-31 @ 10:13am eastward reported from east end of Kirk mp CG70.2 with CSX engine #3436 leading.
Q327-31 @ 10:17am westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 468 axles & 6,390 feet long. CSX engine #3141 leading &114 cars & CSX #743 as a rear DPU.
Q326-31 @ 10:24am eastward, main to siding, at Gross mp CG63.1 to meet Q327-31.
Q327-31 @ 10:37:07am westward Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35
Q326-31 @ 10:45:10am eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSX engine #3436 & 46 cars & rear CSX engine #3061.

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No D708 today.

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SB D736 just cleared Lilley Rd. CSX 5439 + 5436 + 113 cars.
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BL2-1843 wrote:
Thu Dec 31, 2020 8:57 am
Yesterday's D70630 had 67 cars east of Lansing. CSX finally found a couple of body's to work a local east of Lansing overnight for Ann Pere work for the first time in a week Albeit D70730 which keeps the string of no D708 trains going. They brought 63 cars for GLC, (half of them ash cars) went to Brighton to run around them by 05:15, came back to park them on the main and pick up the 76 GLC cars sitting here since Sunday. Departed back to Lansing by 08:30. Power was 388+8088 heading east, both units facing east. This makes Tom49081 correct in his assumption that 388 came to Lansing on D706 within the last week to ten days.

What is ironic by D707 coming to Howell, while they were running around their train In Brighton, GLC came across the diamond heading back north from Ann Pere with neither them or D707 knowing each other was around. Parish the thought that it would ever happen, but if GLC & CSX worked together, GLC could have taken the 63 set off cars back north with them. With another holiday and weekend approaching, it would neat if took GLC a week to get back to Ann Pere again, like it took CSX, and those 63 cars parked on the main could be sitting there for a week. Sort of like what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I'm curious how you get all this information. I presume you have a pretty nice scanner setup, and can listen on multiple frequencies at the same time?
I'm trying to do something similar with an SDR so I can stream the feed to the internet.

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q32631 zeeland MI. q32731 livingston MI. d70030 arrived holland 6am. d70031 set for 9:30pm. d70231 holland as of 10am. d70531 on duty detroit. d70730 lansing as of 9:30am. d70831 annulled.
n80030 kirk MI. n80001, n80131, e80031 in system.
q56731 north milton NY. q56730 chili jnct NY, q56729 terminated Willard OH. q56831 eureka rd romulus MI. q50831 set for 3pm cincinnati. q50931 turnpike OH. q13131 ridgeway OH, q13231 set for 1pm salem IL.

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N800-30 @ 12:13:45pm Bangor mp CG60.7 with BNSF engines #9257 + #9348 & 127 loaded coal cars. He's going into Wells siding mp CG43.3

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D801-31 @ 4:26pm westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 28 axles & 343 feet long. CSX engines #579 + #989 & 4 cars. Assuming these are loaded coal cars that had been seen on Q326 & are being taken into the west end of Grand Junction siding mp CG55.6 to add to the N801-27 that had tied down there on Dec 28th. The CSX engines will become the pushers.

N801-31 between 3:57pm/4:27pm reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 532 axles & 6,983. BNSF engine #5918(?) + 1 & 130 loaded coal cars.

D801-31 @ 4:47pm he has a Restricting signal, main to siding, to go into the west end of Grand Junction.
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N801-31@ 5:29:06pm Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with BNSF engines #5919 + #9271 & 130 loaded coal cars. He's going into Grand Junction siding as soon as D801 moves the loaded coal train out of there. He's tying down there & cutting his train.
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D707s pickup from GLC this morning is still on M2 w EOT on and engines hooked up. They ran out of time before they could yard the pickup.

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D801-31 @ 6:15pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 560 axles & 7,397 feet long. BNSF engines #9049 + #5912 & 134 loaded coal cars & CSX pushers #989 + #579 (this was N801-27 that had tied down there on Dec 28th & D801 had brought 4 loaded coal cars to add to the consist).

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D705-31 past West End Howell at 21:12, 738 leading and 3211 on the very end.
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Amtrak P370-31 @ 9:13pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 306 feet long. IDTX engine #4614 & 3 SuperLiner cars.
Amtrak P370-31 @ 9:20pm eastward reported clear bof the St Joseph Bridge.
Amtrak P370-31 @ 9:52:04pm eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 (0 passengers on/off at the station mp CG60.5)

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LansingRailFan wrote:
Thu Dec 31, 2020 5:48 pm
D707s pickup from GLC this morning is still on M2 w EOT on and engines hooked up. They ran out of time before they could yard the pickup.
Sounds like tonight's D707 crew is on duty and has that train in the clear at Ensel at 22:15.

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