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Frank- Your order will automatically time-out after 7 days if CSX doesn’t fill the order or the cars get lost and Chessie will not tell you. The best thing to do is to call 1-877-SHIPCSX, Option 5, then Option 6 and talk to J-ville or to call the local yardmaster/trainmaster with the car numbers. Te...

13:50 EDT Z15130 GETTING READY TO DEPART WYOMING YARD. SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE OVER TONNAGE. HEARD CONDUTOR TELL HEAD END AFTER CALLING THEIR OFFICE..."CONTINUE AS NORMAL...THERE IS A PLAN IN PLACE." NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THAT MEANS.... 15:45 EDT SOUNDS LIKE Z15130 WILL BE LEAVING PART OF THEIR TRAIN I...

Should have come to Holland JT! P371 arriving Benton Harbor now. This guys riding. Was the crowd waiting for the train ready to riot with how late they were running? :lol: I got a shot down in East Saugatuck at the 138th St. crossing, but unfortunately I got cloud F'd. Lol no Rodey Kings present. I...

10:21 delayed due to the bridge not locking at Benton Harbor. P371 out.

Should have come to Holland JT! P371 arriving Benton Harbor now. This guys riding.

Two crossing would have to be re-installed at US-41 and M-95, both two lane, 55mph roads. Nothing major. LS&I owns that rail to Humboldt JCT, then it begins CN to L'Anse. Biggest thing is going to be that Kennecott is Cliff's competition would be why I could see you would see any fuss brought forth ...

Nice read: Lake Michigan Carferries

CAT345C wrote: and a company escort.

Wonder who?

Not totally on topic, but reguarding shoving platforms: During the first MQT windmill train shove, I learned from the GR guys you cannot ride on a flatcar (during shove moves). Are there any other railcar types you cannot ride on---tankers come to mind? Who told you that you can't ride a tank car? ...

Self moderation/modulation is the key here. If you don't like a certain someones posts then DON'T READ EM! See its easy. Like our new trainmaster says, "We are all men here." And I add, "act like it." No problemo. And actually I really don't see much of a problem here at all anyway. I look at it li...

a lot of the class ones are getting rid of the 50' box cars and going to the 60' box car. I too am seeing a growing number of companies that traditionally received 50' box cars starting to receive 60's. Primarily newsprint and paper customers. Most the 50' boxes are geting to the end of their life....

The electronic bells are being replaced with the mechanical when the electronic ones fail. Cheaper, last longer, and sound better.

Z151-30 northbound at wye 13:55 /Z152-30 farting in the yard with the remaining windmill cars to be wyed behind Z151.

You will also notice on the 01/02/03 that are different: Steps Bell Fuel Tank (gauge is in liters) Headlights No rear ditch lights Front ditch light location Canadian or (Canadien on CN) trucks Insulated cabs Dual brake pipe hose (front and back) MQT engineer running IDK I'm sure there is more that ...

Sounds like they stoped to switch Vans on the way north. Track inspector called them and told them they where still sitting in the crossing at Turner St. by a car and a half. Conductor was talking to the RN at the time. I've seen it where only the last car is halfway on the crossing...just barely s...

AARR wrote:Nice pictures Mark. Didn't the GP38-2's arrive in UP paint and MQT simply made a few adjustments to it?

Yes. Made some Marquetteish improvments.

AveryRdhouse wrote:I let the 4433 isolated last night out of Manistee, for fear that if it blew up, I'd have to pay for it.

You should see what the polish prince has been been saying about it today.. hehehe

Z151 S/B White Cloud GLLX 3003, GLLX 4433, MQT 2006. Get your camera's ready.

Z151-28 S/B Casnovia 09:32 GLLX 3003-MQT 2006-MQT 2007

So both LS&I and CN load out of empire and tilden? some goes to escanaba and some goes to mqt? CN is only allowed in the Empire. LS&I is allowed in both. Back in the 50's when Jim Scullion SR helped planning the track to the Tilden, both the CNW and LS&I had mainline track insted of using track rig...