CSX Train Location Updates - January 2022

[MQT1223]

Q327 clear MP 109.3

[Tom49801]

Q327-20 @ 10:23 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 584 axles & 8,044 feet long. CSX engines #843 + mid dpu #8906 & 143 total cars.

D706-20 @ 10:35 Grand Rapids job briefing with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engines #5220 + #5452 & 30 cars (21 loads + 9 empties). He has work at Lansing: 2 set offs and "a large pickup" - maybe Rouge wasn't kidding earlier when he had told them they have 100 cars to pickup. He's on the move eastward reporting from Plaster Creek mp CGT 2.0 @ 10:38

Dumb question time again Tom what does CGT 2.0 mean and is that at the throat of the yard on the east side of the yard … I know there’s a small creek on that side of the yard but there’s also a lot of water on the other end of the yard as well

CGT are the mile posts inside of the Grand Rapids Terminal, CH are the mile posts on the Plymouth sub-division and CG are for the mile posts on the Grand Rapids sub-division. Letter codes are needed because mile post numbers can replicate on the different subs.
I've never actually seen these locations in person, I'm over 700 miles away in Maryland & I reference the locations from a 2008 CSX Time Table.

[amessmann]

I reference the locations from a 2008 CSX Time Table.

Again, if anyone wants a copy, send me a private message!

[Tom49801]

Q326-20 @ 11:50 eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 444 axles & 6,430 feet long. CSX engine #5245 + 1 & 108 cars.

[Tom49801]

D706-20 @ 12:23 eastward reported by DD mp CH126.3 with 132 axles. CSX engines #5220 + #5452 & 30 cars.

[Tom49801]

D700-20 mp CG20.67 @ 12:28

D700-19 @ 12:30 westward reported by DD mp CG19.1 with 129 axles (+1 error) & 3,111 feet long. CSX engines #6546 & 32 cars.
Did he have just 1 engine, Lighthouse? Can't trust this DD's reports lately.

[SD80MAC]

Q327-20 @ 10:23 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 584 axles & 8,044 feet long. CSX engines #843 + mid dpu #8906 & 143 total cars.

D706-20 @ 10:35 Grand Rapids job briefing with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engines #5220 + #5452 & 30 cars (21 loads + 9 empties). He has work at Lansing: 2 set offs and "a large pickup" - maybe Rouge wasn't kidding earlier when he had told them they have 100 cars to pickup. He's on the move eastward reporting from Plaster Creek mp CGT 2.0 @ 10:38

Dumb question time again Tom what does CGT 2.0 mean and is that at the throat of the yard on the east side of the yard … I know there’s a small creek on that side of the yard but there’s also a lot of water on the other end of the yard as well …. Since I first posted this question Tom explained what CGT meant and I used Google Earth to find plaster creek and the exact spot he was talking about

CGT 2.0 is Plaster Creek, the east end of Wyoming Yard. In regards to the Hamilton Branch, CSX ownership ends at MP 19.5.

[Tom49801]

Q326-20 @ 12:43 eastward reported by the DD mp CG66.2 with 450 axles (+6 error) & 6,491 feet long. CSX engine #5245 + #817 & 108 cars.

Q326-20 @ 12:50:46 eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 cam.

D706-20 @ 13:01 eastward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 with 132 axles & 1,940 feet long. CSX engines #5220 + #5452 & 30 cars.

[SD80MAC]

Here's my take on Q326 from yesterday (1/19/22) with ST70AH 8906 leading, crossing Buck Creek in Grandville:

Tier 4 Ace Over Buck Creek by Jonathon Leese, on Flickr

[Tom49801]

Q326-20 @ 13:16 eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 444 axles & 6,571 feet long. CSX engines #5245 + #817 & 108 cars.

[Tom49801]

Q326-20 mp CG20.67 @ 14:16 … cleared mp CG20.67 @ 14:18

Noticed gondola cars with coiled steel and coil cars with coiled steel without lids

Q326-20 @ 14:22 eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 444 axles & 6,451 feet long. CSX engines #5245 + #817 & 108 cars.

[Tom49801]

D700-20 eastbound mp CG20.67 @ 14:34

D700-19 @ 14:37 eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 90 axles (+/- 2 error) & 1,294 feet long. CSX engine #6546 & 22 cars (for a -2 axle count error) or 21 cars (for a +2 error).

Rouge just asked him how many cars he has & the answer was 21.

[LansingRailFan]

One of the two engines from the grain train spotted at Webberville the other night is at Ensel. The crew didn't have a cab and had to take an engine back to the yard office to go home.

RN was talking to D706 that the crew pulling the grain train out of Webberville is OD at 15:30. They will go engine light from Ensel to Webberville and hookup with the other loco and then start to build their train. RN also mentioned that D705 was OD at 14:00 out of Rougemere and that there is another inbound grain empty arriving in Plymouth sometime in the next several hours. I don't remember symbols or unit numbers as I was driving while all of this was going on.

[DriverJon]

One of the two engines from the grain train spotted at Webberville the other night is at Ensel. The crew didn't have a cab and had to take an engine back to the yard office to go home.

RN was talking to D706 that the crew pulling the grain train out of Webberville is OD at 15:30. They will go engine light from Ensel to Webberville and hookup with the other loco and then start to build their train. RN also mentioned that D705 was OD at 14:00 out of Rougemere and that there is another inbound grain empty arriving in Plymouth sometime in the next several hours. I don't remember symbols or unit numbers as I was driving while all of this was going on.

That just sounds like bad planning on CSX's end. Although, I will say that taking a train is much better than a car.

[BL2-1843]

Instant Replay of yesterday, D708 left cars parked on the main for GLC, picked up cars from GLC in the Howell pass and took them to Brighton to run around it. D706 arrived in Howell at 4:45pm and is currently taking his 94 car train through the pass around the cars on the main. South Lyon boys will have to get a for sure car count. Engines for the Webberville grain train, G763-19 will have to clear up in the plant for quite some time to wait for D708 and possibly D705 to get by first.

[DriverJon]

Instant Replay of yesterday, D708 left cars parked on the main for GLC, picked up cars from GLC in the Howell pass and took them to Brighton to run around it. D706 arrived in Howell at 4:45pm and is currently taking his 94 car train through the pass around the cars on the main. South Lyon boys will have to get a for sure car count. Engines for the Webberville grain train, G763-19 will have to clear up in the plant for quite some time to wait for D708 and possibly D705 to get by first.

Gonna have to leave the car count to Sparrow, the rest of us are out. I assume that the power on D706 is the usual pair of ES40DCs?

[Tom49801]

Instant Replay of yesterday, D708 left cars parked on the main for GLC, picked up cars from GLC in the Howell pass and took them to Brighton to run around it. D706 arrived in Howell at 4:45pm and is currently taking his 94 car train through the pass around the cars on the main. South Lyon boys will have to get a for sure car count. Engines for the Webberville grain train, G763-19 will have to clear up in the plant for quite some time to wait for D708 and possibly D705 to get by first.

Gonna have to leave the car count to Sparrow, the rest of us are out. I assume that the power on D706 is the usual pair of ES40DCs?

D706-20 has CSX engines #5220 + #5452

[sparrow24]

Was stuck in the office too late today to catch the DD for D706.

Sounds like D706 and D705 met in South Lyon. D705 is westbound out of the siding at 17:57.

For D705, the Green Oak DD at CH39.1 said 180 axles, 2666 feet. 42 cars.

[BL2-1843]

D705-20 by Howell at 6:45pm with new power. 7011+7779 and 42 cars. G763-19, 7221+7027 currently at Webberville getting air tests on cars in the plant.

[Tom49801]

D801-20 @ 19:43 westward Holland Depot mp CG25.3 with BNSF #5753 & 130(?) empty coal cars & rear BNSF engine #9040. He’s going to re-crewed by the E800 crew at Saugatuck mp CG32.5