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2019 sitting by North Yard enginehouse at Muskegon. Lots of tire tracks going by it in the snow. Must be more foamers around here than I thought..

[quote="i995impalass"][quote="AARR"] Other ore operations are pellet reclaim on LS&I, a pellet picker pulls all the loose pellets off the tracks and loads into ore cars. Usually this is the pellet collector itself, a hi-rail truck or two, and 3-5 ore cars. The picker is able to couple to the ore car...

The Central Valley turnout detail kit includes a 'working' switchstand. You can't use the switchstand to line the switch, but if you move the points the target will rotate. It's made for use with their turnout kits, but can be adapted to pretty much any brand of turnout. Note that they also sell jus...

Better late than never, right? Nugent North transload has been shipping sand for about three weeks now. Started shipping about 6 cars/day for a couple weeks, but it looks like they're ramping up now, about a dozen cars up at the site, stashed on all legs of the wye. I haven't gotten up there while a...

Not sure how this good news has escaped notice so far.. Nugent's sand transload facility at Berry Junction is under construction. They got the concrete foundations poured and what appears to be a surge bin installed. Looks like spots for loading two cars at a time. It's located right on the old main...

To clear up confusion, the coal is to fire the pellet kilns at the mine, not generate electricity. All electricity comes from the Presque Isle power plant, which gets coal directly from boats. The kilns can run on natural gas, coal, or a third fuel I can't remember and which the official pamphlet do...

As someone who has handlaid some shoddy looking track that still works, I can give you some pointers. All my track (excepting my staging yard) is handlaid Micro Engineering code 40, 55, 70, 83 rail on wood ties or Central Valley tie strips. I've tried spikes and various adhesives: spikes go in quick...

I use one bank per geographic area (LP, UP, Chicago, etc.) with all frequencies labeled, and have one bank for all AAR channels and one for all navigation channels. I use the bank for an area if I have it; if not, I use the AAR bank and lockout any frequencies that are getting static or other junk. ...

These are my most recent notes, though I haven't been up in a year, so no telling if anything's changed recently. ALso haven't been able to narrow down the CN yard frequencies, oh well. Lake Superior & Ishpeming (LS&I) 160.230 8 Road 161.370 84 Yard/Tilden 161.490 92 Yard/Empire 160.950 56 Yard/Dock...

Heard from someone who talked to the guys working on the cars that they're for Consumers Power. They're going to use them for planking so they can get a crane out to work on electric towers out in the swamps.

Ryan

G010 following Q334 out of GR, both getting permission past stop indication at WE Fox

GDLK NB Watson 10:55 with a scale test car.
Y106 headed east right after GDLK cleared the wye.

CSX yard job headed up to GRE with coal gons NOW. Looks kinda funny, actually.

Z151 NB Watson 14:25. I think this was their quickest turnaround yet; must be those daytime yard guys.

Y??? NB Watson 16:45 with 1 bulkhead flat of lumber and 2 gons. Haven't seen CSX up this way in some time in daylight.

Z15120 SB Watson 16:56. Empty bulkheads on front, looks like they made a pickup. Nice to see four units on it.

MQT NB Watson 0758, 2 SD40's. I heard some chatter from 32614, sounded like they hit a tree somewhere. Hmm.

MQT SB Watson with 1 Geep, 2 empty bulkhead flats and a Railbox. When did they start a local job down here? FIrst time I've seen this happen (not that I mind, or anything).

GER NB Watson 11:45 with 1 tankcar, presumably for GRE.
GER SB Watson 12:32, 1 tankcar. I hope it isn't the same one.

3885 has been sitting in front of Henry St. enginehouse for about a week now, I haven't seen it move (though I haven't been paying close attention, either). 3836 and 3839 are sitting in the house, no apparent problems. I don't know about the 9's, I didn't see them at Henry St. yard today, and there ...