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rob

Saturnalia wrote:

rob wrote:The ptc has been turned on the grands rapids sub.

The dawn of the new era!

Is PTC in service from Plaster Creek to Seymour as well?

yes

The ptc has been turned on the grands rapids sub.

Q32701 through grandville with 895 and bnsf 5358 at about 7:00

The train couldnt leave grand rapids without 2 engines. So they had a west olive crew bring over power before it could leave Rob K83115 west through Bangor 3:17pm with BNSF 5819 and BNSF 6227 leading 85 empty potash cars. Rob, so they used a crew to determine they couldn't run the train at Wyoming ...

k83113 had a board member on it tonight at Wyoming Yard in Grand Rapids. Not positive what happened, but train got annulled while working Wyoming Yard.. K83115 is what it's rescheduled as, no crew called. CSX remembered that GR crews aren't qualified to Bensenville anymore, and there were apparentl...

Grand elk Heading south through Wayland at 18:00 friday

Wamx 4209 and ex wsor 4189 just got done working Wayland and heading north to grand rapids

MMRR 2019 Waverly Yard Holland Z627 2-22-2017.jpg As a helpful reference point, this is what East Leg Wye looks like from the shoulder of US-31 looking compass west. Grand Rapids sub mainline is at right, signalled, curving to the left. Holland passing siding is the next track to the left. The MMRR...

Tier4GEVO wrote:Q327-16 first symbol out of Detroit clear south Lyon, light power.

later tonight watch for q328 grand rapids to Detroit train
rob

Doktor No wrote:Is Master James at the controls of 106 again?

No he moved to 700

Rob

~Z~ wrote:Amtrak P37115 west by Bangor at 7:39am with AMTK 90229, 3 supers, and a charger trailing.
11:13am - D700 must have gotten a very early start as they are eastbound from Holland nearing Jenison.

New call time of 5:00am

No q326 today

Rob

lighthouse wrote:1/23/18....2 hoppers on the way 2 the West Michigan Railroad for rubber chip loading

I was told there are 16 hopper in the pool now.
Rob

was the engine shop built after tpw sold the line or was it a building there before?

rob

dave989 wrote:

justin_gram wrote:Sounds like 326 east at Vine at 09:35. 300 axles, 4727 feet.

Could this be the last freight of the day ? I expect everything to shut down prior to Sun down.
Merry Christmas to all!!! Stay safe.

There is no shutdown this year the only thing not running are the locals
Merry Christmas from hunter

trnwatcher wrote:

~Z~ wrote:

trnwatcher wrote:Q32730 WILL BE HEADING WEST AS SOON AS 326 CLEARS GRANDVILLE.

I think you're hearing S32731 as I just heard them going by Hudsonville. q32730 went by Jochs n Folks earlier today.

Figured tonights was Q and earlier was an S. They called Grandville as 327.

The Q run first then the S train

trnwatcher wrote:2135 Q32709 PUTTING THEIR TRAIN TOGETHER AT IVANREST. TRIPLING ONTO 3RD TRACK OF CARS. CSXT 5378,3399,6553,14,5461,462 AS POWER. LAND BARGE AHOY!

and 16,000

The Zeeland plant trucks some of the out bound product to the Waverly yard where they use a track to load soy oil. If you look at the satellite picture it's the stub track closest to the yard office. The rail roads keeps 4 tanks on the track and load for the end of the stub and most day they load 2 ...

327 and 326 will be going to and from clearing from now on.

Rob