CSX Location Updates - Oct 2021

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Re: CSX Location Updates - Oct 2021

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amessmann wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:32 pm
amessmann wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 3:58 pm
K862 westbound thru Brighton's EE at 15:57. 8017 leading, 8643 rear DPU.
MQT1223 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 4:59 pm
Where is this going?
GP30M4216 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:25 pm
Almost certainly Webberville ADM.
These potash trains go to Andersons' Plant Nutrient which is next to ADM Webberville. From what I can tell they share the car storage tracks.
Adam’s correct. ADM and The Anderson’s share tracks.

It’ll be interesting to see if this CP power stays in Webberville or goes back to Plymouth or to Ensel to be picked up by D706.

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Tom49801 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:16 pm
OldBastard wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:05 pm
MQT1223 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:57 pm


Do we know if they will tie down at GJ/Wells or keep going up to West Olive?
And if tying down at any of these locations will the DPU be kept on the west end or brought around up front?
He will go into Grand Junction siding mp CG5.6 to tie down since the CSX power is in West Olive at this time. They'll add the 2 CSX engines behind the leading engine. They can't make it over the Saugatuck Hill without adding power. When he returns as an empty coal train, wondering if the CN unit will be the leader.
Will this be done during the night or sometime tomorrow?

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It’ll be done whenever A. The plant is ready for the train and B. Whenever they find a crew to do it.
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GLC 392 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:39 pm
8952’s PTC was cut out/not working last I knew, doesn’t mean it hasn’t been corrected but I don’t expect it to lead back out.


Tom49801 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:16 pm
OldBastard wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:05 pm


And if tying down at any of these locations will the DPU be kept on the west end or brought around up front?
He will go into Grand Junction siding mp CG5.6 to tie down since the CSX power is in West Olive at this time. They'll add the 2 CSX engines behind the leading engine. They can't make it over the Saugatuck Hill without adding power. When he returns as an empty coal train, wondering if the CN unit will be the leader.
It was interesting seeing a flashing EOT on the CN as he went by the Bangor cam & he did have a working light.

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An Empty Coal Train is being built in West Olive BNSF 8529 leading 19:50

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Talk wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:50 pm
An Empty Coal Train is being built in West Olive BNSF 8529 leading 19:50
Fast turn around time, that engine was on the rear of today's N800-28 with the BNSF #6365 leading. N800-28 was reported by the DD at mp CG44.2 @ 13:14 after adding his CSX power at Grand Junction mp CG54.

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The plant has almost no stock pile on the ground and almost everything they are dumping goes right into the bunkers inside the units themselves with almost none of it going on the ground. Until recently the plant had been depleting their stock pile and hadn’t been supplying as much power due to the gas plants burning the cheaper NG but with the spike of gas prices they have been pushing more power out of West Olive. The plant had 2 loads waiting to to dumped yesterday and were sitting on those and dumping as needed instead of putting on the ground. Unit one yesterday was pushing 236Megawatts, unit two is down for work and unit three was pushing just shy of 800Megawatts. With that being said I expect to see more trains this winter than the past few years.
Tom49801 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:32 pm
Talk wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:50 pm
An Empty Coal Train is being built in West Olive BNSF 8529 leading 19:50
Fast turn around time, that engine was on the rear of today's N800-28 with the BNSF #6365 leading. N800-28 was reported by the DD at mp CG44.2 @ 13:14 after adding his CSX power at Grand Junction mp CG54.

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Amtrak P370-31 @ 21:17 eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 308 feet long. IDTX engine #4619 & 3 SuperLiners.

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GLC 392 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 9:16 pm
The plant has almost no stock pile on the ground and almost everything they are dumping goes right into the bunkers inside the units themselves with almost none of it going on the ground. Until recently the plant had been depleting their stock pile and hadn’t been supplying as much power due to the gas plants burning the cheaper NG but with the spike of gas prices they have been pushing more power out of West Olive. The plant had 2 loads waiting to to dumped yesterday and were sitting on those and dumping as needed instead of putting on the ground. Unit one yesterday was pushing 236Megawatts, unit two is down for work and unit three was pushing just shy of 800Megawatts. With that being said I expect to see more trains this winter than the past few years.
Tom49801 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:32 pm
Talk wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:50 pm
An Empty Coal Train is being built in West Olive BNSF 8529 leading 19:50
Fast turn around time, that engine was on the rear of today's N800-28 with the BNSF #6365 leading. N800-28 was reported by the DD at mp CG44.2 @ 13:14 after adding his CSX power at Grand Junction mp CG54.
I had read an article saying the price of natural gas has gone up so much that power plants are going back to coal & the coal available for 2022 is already sold out.

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Tom49801 wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:32 pm
Talk wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:50 pm
An Empty Coal Train is being built in West Olive BNSF 8529 leading 19:50
Fast turn around time, that engine was on the rear of today's N800-28 with the BNSF #6365 leading. N800-28 was reported by the DD at mp CG44.2 @ 13:14 after adding his CSX power at Grand Junction mp CG54.
D801-31 @ 21:41 copied his EC1 to depart the West Olive power plant with BNSF engine #8529 + CSX engines #3440 + #3167 & 130(?) empty coal cars & rear BNSF engine #6365. He'll take the empty coal train into Wells Siding mp CG43.3 & then cut away the CSX power & take those to the east end of Grand Jct siding mp CG54. I don't know if he'll have enough time to move N801-25 out of Grand Jct. He will wait in Holland for Amtrak to pass by.

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Amtrak P370-31 @ 21:59:29 eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with IDTX engine #4619 & 3 SuperLiners (1 passenger Off at the station mp CG60.5)

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D801-31 passed through holland at 23:02 with BNSF 8529 leading

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