CSX Train Location Updates - July 2022

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L303 past hall st about 35-45 cars

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JBaxter wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:42 pm
L303 past hall st about 35-45 cars
29 cars by my count at CH 147.
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M326-01 @ 13:52 eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 Pearl, Mi with 320 axles & 4,777 feet long. CSX engines #3403 + #5226 & 77 cars.

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L302 clear Plymouth with CSXT #933 + BNSF #9368 elephant style and a real short train
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Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:11 pm
L301-01 @ 13:07 westward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 226 axles & 2,792 feet long. CSX engine #8052 & 55 cars. He’s headed into Waverly.
Engine 8052 looks like they have completed their Waverly work and are sitting at CP Holland on the siding awaiting M326 before heading west. Lots of Buzzi empties up front. 📸

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R599-01 @ 14:16 eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 532 axles & 7,118 feet long. BNSF engine #6036 & 130 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5903. This was C800-29 that had tied down in Grand Jct yesterday & they will add CSX engines #253 + #718 behind the leader engine at the east end of Wells mp CG41.3
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M326 clear Holland Depot 14:35. Nice set of ex CNW hoppers near the front end!

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L301-01 @ 14:40 Pass Track to Main Track westward Holland Depot mp CG25.3 with CSX engine #8052 & 27 cars (22 CH + 5 Coils). He’ll go into Saugatuck siding mp CG32 to wait for an “R crew” that’s moving a loaded coal train out of Grand Jct Siding mp CG54 & then has work for Hartford mp CG68.7

M326-01 @ 14:52 eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 Zeeland, Mi with 320 axles & 4,681 feet long. CSX engines #3403 + #5226 & 77 cars.

L303-01 @ 14:58 eastward reported by the DD mp CH126.3 Clarksville, Mi with 128 axles. CSX engines #7250 + #513 & 29 cars (10 loads + 19 empties). He has work in Lansing.

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Tom49801 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:44 pm
L301-01 @ 14:40 Pass Track to Main Track westward Holland Depot mp CG25.3 with CSX engine #8052 & 27 cars (22 CH + 5 Coils). He’ll go into Saugatuck siding mp CG32 to wait for an “R crew” that’s moving a loaded coal train out of Grand Jct Siding mp CG54 & then has work for Hartford mp CG68.7
Nope, L301 got lined through Saugatuck on the main. Looked like a bunch of Buzzi empties plus 6 standard covered hoppers (for WMI?) and 5 coils for Arlington. Clear 55th street crossing on Saugatuck Hill at 15:00 on the nose, beside a prosperous looking wild raspberry bush near the crossing. 📸

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L302-01 by Howell at 15:15 with 932 & BNSF 9368 on the (head) end, but only 20 cars. Forgot to put "head' on the post, which would have saved a question if I had, as intended. To big of a rush to beat amessmann on the post as I saw he was on line champing at the bit.
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Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:20 pm
L302-01 by Howell at 15:15 with 932 & BNSF 9368 on the end, but only 20 cars
He has the BNSF #9368 as a rear dpu?

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He has the BNSF #9368 as a rear dpu?
Nope, directly behind 932.
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Thank you for the info on L302 amessmann :)

L301-01 @ 15:36 westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 114 axles & 1,378 feet long. CSX engine #8052 & 27 cars.

L303-01 @ 15:42 eastward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 128 axles & 1,931 feet long. CSX engines #7250 + #513 & 29 cars (10 loads + 19 empties). He has work in Lansing.

R599-01 @ 15:57 eastward Holland Depot mp CG25.3 with BNSF engine #6036 & CSX engines #253 + #718 & 130 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5903.

L301-01 @ 15:58:17 westward Bangor’s Center St crossing mp CG60.35 cam

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BL2-1843 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:20 pm
L302-01 by Howell at 15:15 with 932 & BNSF 9368 on the (head) end, but only 20 cars. Forgot to put "head' on the post, which would have saved a question if I had, as intended. To big of a rush to beat amessmann on the post as I saw he was on line champing at the bit.
Clear me roughly from CH86 area at 16:09
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amessmann wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:30 pm
Tom49801 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:24 pm
He has the BNSF #9368 as a rear dpu?
Nope, directly behind 932.
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Thanks Andy, I'm quite happy with that shot, one of the first BNSF ACes I've seen.
BL2-1843 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:20 pm
To big of a rush to beat amessmann on the post as I saw he was on line champing at the bit.
Tail end of the train had passed me no doubt before the head end had reached you. I figured I'd give you a chance to post as I've been posting from Howell a lot.
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Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:40 pm
L303-01...CSX engines #7250 + #513
Tom, is 513 running as DPU on L303?

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JBaxter wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:42 pm
L303 past hall st about 35-45 cars
Departed Ensel at 17:17. No DPU needed for such a short train

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amessmann wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:14 pm
Thanks Andy, I'm quite happy with that shot, one of the first BNSF ACes I've seen.
BL2-1843 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:20 pm
To big of a rush to beat amessmann on the post as I saw he was on line champing at the bit.
Tail end of the train had passed me no doubt before the head end had reached you. I figured I'd give you a chance to post as I've been posting from Howell a lot.
Tom49801 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:40 pm
L303-01...CSX engines #7250 + #513
Tom, is 513 running as DPU on L303?
L303-01 didn't run in dpu mode, before they built their train in Grand Rapids they had asked the Dispatcher if they were to run in DP mode & the Dispatcher told them to give him a call on the phone.

CSX last year had made a rule, where, no matter how short the train may be, if both engines are DPU capable, then they're to run in DPU mode (but we have seen that rule is not always followed, like with today's L303).

Last month L302-28 had ran with CSX engines #7250 + #4228 & 21 cars & rear dpu CSX #513. The next day,
L303-29 had ran with CSX engines #7250 + #4228 & 49 cars & rear dpu CSX #513.

Last year, we had seen Q327 running with a rear dpu & they had only 1 (one) car.

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bluewonderrails wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:46 pm
BL2-1843 wrote:
Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:20 pm
L302-01 by Howell at 15:15 with 932 & BNSF 9368 on the (head) end, but only 20 cars. Forgot to put "head' on the post, which would have saved a question if I had, as intended. To big of a rush to beat amessmann on the post as I saw he was on line champing at the bit.
Clear me roughly from CH86 area at 16:09
L302-01 @ 17:53 westward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 128 axles & 2,027 feet long. CSX engine #932 + BNSF engine #9368 (elephant style) & 29 cars.

L301-01 @ 18:11:25 eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 cam with CSX engine #8052 & 28 cars. He’ll be going into Holland mp CG25.3 He had work only for Hartford mp CG68.7 today.

L302-01 @ 18:33 westward reported by DD mp CH126.3 Clarksville, Mi with 128 axles.

L301-01 @ 18:36 eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 118 axles & 1,492 feet long.

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L301-01 @ 19:09 eastward Holland Depot mp CG25.3 Main Track to Pass Track w/ CSX engine #8052 & 28 cars.

L302-01 @ 19:13 westward reported a Medium Clear signal at Seymour mp CH148.1 with CSX engine #932 + BNSF engine #9368 (elephant style) & 29 cars.

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