Shortline Updates - October 2021

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EB MQT Rail departing Ludington for Wahalla. Pair of Geeps, yellow leader and about 37 cars.
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 1:01pm. wamx 4124, wamx 4189, and 8 cars

Back south at 4:48pm with WAMX 4189, WAMX 4124, and 5 covered hoppers.
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Michigan Shore Railroad Location Updates - October 2021

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Michigan Shore RR returns with MMRR #2170 leading MMRR #2019 (long train) north at Airline Rd & Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts. 4:32 PM

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WB HESR freight with a single RW&B GP38 west of Reese. Currently paralleling them along M-81
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Grand elk North through Byron Center at 2:01pm. Wamx 4124, wamx 4189 and 17 cars. Boxcars, loaded centerbeams, covered hoppers and tank cars.

Back south at 4:38pm, WAMX 4189, WAMX 4124, and 30 cars.
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Grand Elk running up to Fuller with WAMX 3531 and GMTX 2204, 2 loads for the CPMY and some propane

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HESR pulls out of Durand and heads north to Saginaw at 17:43

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Michigan Shore Railroad Location Updates - October 2021

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Michigan Shore MMRR #2019, MMRR #2170 with 7 hoppers, 10 gondolas, 1 tank car south at Airline Rd & Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts. 9:05 AM

-I like how MMRR #2019 coincidently ended up with a new P5 horn when the year 2019 started. Before it had it's original Raised Letter K5LA in early January 2019. From what I hear, MMRR #2019 has a nice horn! I was surprised to hear it when I saw it in late April of 2019. Did they change the horn later that day it was a K5LA?
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Z151 with two SD40-2's sandwiching a yellow GP38-2 thru Sunnyside with a land barge with funky ballast cars on the rear.

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Grand elk North through Byron Center at 1:49pm. Wamx 4125 solo and 8 cars.
Just for AARR, here's the whole train...mainly because it was only 8 cars long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdYxJ3_TjyQ
Back south at 3:46pm with WAMX 4125 long hood forward solo, no cars.
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GRE WB near Ada, -12 hoppers around 2:15pm

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~Z~ wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:50 pm
Just for AARR, here's the whole train...mainly because it was only 8 cars long.
Thank you :lol:
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AARR wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:14 pm
~Z~ wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:50 pm
Just for AARR, here's the whole train...mainly because it was only 8 cars long.
Thank you :lol:
I had to pause it for a potty break
Should have made it a 2 parter :lol:

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Per Facebook, Marquette Rail derailed this evening in the vicinity of Brohman. Photo shows several cars on the ground.

Update: no injuries, no hazmat involved

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1878555 ... 609888785/
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Saturnalia wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:27 pm
Per Facebook, Marquette Rail derailed this evening in the vicinity of Brohman. Photo shows several cars on the ground.

Update: no injuries, no hazmat involved

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1878555 ... 609888785/
Yes, 6 cars on the ground in “downtown” Brohman along M-37. 1 tank totally rolled on its side and the rest covered hoppers in the back half of a very long southbound train. Power is 3406, 2044 and another SD40-2, and the entire front of the train down at 5 Mile Road. The west rail is totally bent around over the east almost to the highway. Are the boxcars that come from Manistee typically loaded, or empty, or some of both? As usual, they are near the back of the consist.

I took photos but can’t resize them easily to post on my phone.

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I know about box car loads from PCA. Do they still get about 12 a day?

Are there any other box car customers in Manistee?
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Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:18 pm
Are the boxcars that come from Manistee typically loaded, or empty, or some of both? As usual, they are near the back of the consist.
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Late report: as of late Sunday, MQT had dispatched what I assume was light power down to Brohman to pull back the last dozen + cars that had not derailed to give forthcoming wrecker crews more space to work. They were heading south from Baldwin around 16:00. This left 8 cars as the derailment site. No equipment yet staged at 19:00.

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Between CSX and CN JAIL has 8 cars to pick up tomorrow.
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 11:24am. WAMX 4125, WAMX 4206, and approx 30 cars. Mostly covered hoppers, then a long string of boxcars.

Back south at 2:20pm with WAMX 4206, WAMX 4125 and 7ish covered hoppers. Both locos running long hood forward.
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Michigan Shore Railroad Location Updates - October 2021

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Michigan Shore MMRR #2019, MMRR #2170 returning northbound from Friday (at a slow pace) with 2 tank cars and 15 gondolas, Airline Rd & Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts. 12:32 PM

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