Shortline Train Location Updates - March 2021

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MMRR, yeah that's the ticket. Orange things. I need a better map of the city to follow along better. Wait...the Consumers Energy outage maps do a good job...some of the abandoned lines still show up.
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Southbound LSRC Z127 is in the siding at Newark (south of Grand Blanc) as of 12:06pm. Apparently it’s waiting for a northbound.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:07 pm
Southbound LSRC Z127 is in the siding at Newark (south of Grand Blanc) as of 12:06pm. Apparently it’s waiting for a northbound.
Any idea of when they will get to wixom?

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Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:12 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:07 pm
Southbound LSRC Z127 is in the siding at Newark (south of Grand Blanc) as of 12:06pm. Apparently it’s waiting for a northbound.
Any idea of when they will get to wixom?
Not sure, don’t know how long it takes for them to get there once they get going. I do hear the northbound in Holly right now (I’m at Lahring Road north of town), so the meets gonna occur really soon.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:14 pm
Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:12 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:07 pm
Southbound LSRC Z127 is in the siding at Newark (south of Grand Blanc) as of 12:06pm. Apparently it’s waiting for a northbound.
Any idea of when they will get to wixom?
Not sure, don’t know how long it takes for them to get there once they get going. I do hear the northbound in Holly right now (I’m at Lahring Road north of town), so the meets gonna occur really soon.
Okay nice, I have never caught LSRC before so I might give it a shot when they get to wixom.

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Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:15 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:14 pm
Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:12 pm


Any idea of when they will get to wixom?
Not sure, don’t know how long it takes for them to get there once they get going. I do hear the northbound in Holly right now (I’m at Lahring Road north of town), so the meets gonna occur really soon.
Okay nice, I have never caught LSRC before so I might give it a shot when they get to wixom.
I would think you’d have plenty of time if you left now. Northbound is still in Holly.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:18 pm
Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:15 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:14 pm


Not sure, don’t know how long it takes for them to get there once they get going. I do hear the northbound in Holly right now (I’m at Lahring Road north of town), so the meets gonna occur really soon.
Okay nice, I have never caught LSRC before so I might give it a shot when they get to wixom.
I would think you’d have plenty of time if you left now. Northbound is still in Holly.
I’m heading to wixom. Do you happen to know what scanner frequencies they use?

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Northbound coal with 2 BNSFs for power meeting 127 at Newark at 12:28pm.

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Southbound signals are green and sounds like 127 is starting to move at 12:38pm.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:38 pm
Southbound signals are green and sounds like 127 is starting to move at 12:38pm.
After some further digging, does LSRC still use 161.310?

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Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:46 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:38 pm
Southbound signals are green and sounds like 127 is starting to move at 12:38pm.
After some further digging, does LSRC still use 161.310?
Not sure, I don’t use scanners. Also, 127 is going through Holly at 1;00pm.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:02 pm
Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:46 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:38 pm
Southbound signals are green and sounds like 127 is starting to move at 12:38pm.
After some further digging, does LSRC still use 161.310?
Not sure, I don’t use scanners. Also, 127 is going through Holly at 1;00pm.
Yellow over green in wixom.

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Caught 127 at Buckhorn Lake Road a mile or two south of Holly at 1:05pm.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:12 pm
Caught 127 at Buckhorn Lake Road a mile or two south of Holly at 1:05pm.
What’s track speed from holly to wixom? Sorry to ask so many questions lol

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Micah_D wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:13 pm
atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:12 pm
Caught 127 at Buckhorn Lake Road a mile or two south of Holly at 1:05pm.
What’s track speed from holly to wixom? Sorry to ask so many questions lol
No worries. I’ve heard several times it’s generally 40mph. Not sure if they go slower in Milford or not.

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atrainguy60 wrote:
Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:12 pm
Caught 127 at Buckhorn Lake Road a mile or two south of Holly at 1:05pm.
Cleared Wixom rd @ 1:48

@ 2:56 the locomotives LSRC locomotives are sitting in Plymouth yard.

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Milford Curve is 10 MPH.
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Kind of a late report but one of those sand trains off cn was spotted stopped east of Norwalk, oh on W&LE at 2230 last night. 3rd party report from family. They couldn't see the power or direction of travel.

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GRE 2104 is putting it's train together at Ann St. Yard.

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