Shortline Updates - October 2021

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Re: Michigan Shore Railroad Location Updates - October 2021

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Thank you for posting the cars in the consist
jaykirks wrote:
Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:47 pm
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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Re: Michigan Shore Railroad Location Updates - October 2021

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AARR wrote:
Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:15 pm
Thank you for posting the cars in the consist
jaykirks wrote:
Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:47 pm
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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Re: Shortline Updates - October 2021

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JAIL ran overnight north to the CN interchange and CSX as well. They didn’t have a daytime crew available so they did the northbound run at night. Picked up two coil cars at CSX and six boxcars at CN.

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HESR WB from Caro at 10:55. Power was a pair of orange Geeps. Should be just south of Watrousville now on their way to Vassar.
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MQT1223 wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:02 am
HESR WB from Caro at 10:55. Power was a pair of orange Geeps. Should be just south of Watrousville now on their way to Vassar.
Different HESR job but they are lining out of Durand back to Saginaw at 15:15

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I went up to Broman to see how the repairs were going on Marquette Rail this morning. The cars had been pulled clear of the track and only a short section of rail was missing. There was a crew on site and it looked like it would be repaired today.
Here is a video of stills I took.
https://youtu.be/gdRCQqmF30E
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Grand elk North through Byron Center at 6:10pm. Looked like 3 motors, about 25 cars.

Back south at 8:40pm with 4206 and a second loco, 32ish cars. 4206 LHF.
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As of 16:00, MMRR 2019 was LHF tied down facing northbound parked at Reenders along US31, with about 8 ballast hoppers and about 3 tanks + 3 sand covered hoppers on the tail.

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Cars on multiple tracks in the GRE Ann St. yard, including one loaded center beam. Hopefully an EB tomorrow.

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As of yesterday, MQT 2041 (orange) and 2042 (yellow) were assigned to Manistee, and MMRR 2057 (orange) and MQT 2040 (yellow) were assigned to Ludington. 3391 was also at the Manistee roundhouse. 3406, 2044 (yellow) and another SD are currently on the Sparta turn, which did not run yesterday due to continued derailment cleanup.

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JAIL this morning was spotted NB facing in Mason with three csx boxcars and one NS coil car, csx boxcars for Ensel and the NS coil for RSDC.

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GP30M4216 wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:48 pm
As of 16:00, MMRR 2019 was LHF tied down facing northbound parked at Reenders along US31, with about 8 ballast hoppers and about 3 tanks + 3 sand covered hoppers on the tail.
Still there at 12:30 PM...

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Marquette Rail northbound by 3rd St in grand rapids at 3:15pm. 3 locos with a long long train. Sean at the helm.
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Grand elk south through Byron Center at 5:55pm. Wamx 4189, 4124 and 4002 with 21ish cars.
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Michigan Shore Railroad Location Updates - October 2021

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Michigan Shore MMRR #2019 Long Hood Forward (moving at a very slow pace with a short stop) with 7 of those ballast hoppers, 1 hopper, 3 covered sand hoppers, 3 tank cars down north at Airline Rd & Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts. 7:55 AM. Not sure when the MMRR ran south to Holland...

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jaykirks wrote:
Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:08 am
Michigan Shore MMRR #2019 Long Hood Forward (moving at a very slow pace with a short stop) with 7 of those ballast hoppers, 1 hopper, 3 covered sand hoppers, 3 tank cars down north at Airline Rd & Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts. 7:55 AM. Not sure when the MMRR ran south to Holland...
If you look up a couple posts, they mentioned the train was parked south of Grand Haven, facing northbound for a bit.
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~Z~ wrote:
Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:33 am
jaykirks wrote:
Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:08 am
Michigan Shore MMRR #2019 Long Hood Forward (moving at a very slow pace with a short stop) with 7 of those ballast hoppers, 1 hopper, 3 covered sand hoppers, 3 tank cars down north at Airline Rd & Summit Ave, Muskegon Hts. 7:55 AM. Not sure when the MMRR ran south to Holland...
If you look up a couple posts, they mentioned the train was parked south of Grand Haven, facing northbound for a bit.
Indeed, I've seen the posts. Maybe they went south earlier in the week.

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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 12:29pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4189, and 25ish cars.

Back south at 2:46pm, about 20 cars, same power.
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Indiana northeastern working sungro currently. 2 engines and 6 black tanks. Looks like one hopper for sungro maybe and a gon behind that 1538

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A little late, but GRE made two trips east yesterday and the yard in GR is still full. Lowell has cars on 3 tracks in town. Too dark to see the tracks along the River.

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