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jamelar wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2024 3:56 pm

Anyone from the West side of the state going? How about car pooling, the Lowell Park & Ride Hwy I-96 Exit 52. I'll gladly chip in.

Well that's a bold first post.

Sounds like 327 might be heading out. Lots of horns.

Edit: clear dewent 7:55am.

Not forgetting this time. SB Grand Elk out of GR blowing at the 32nd St crossing at 6:23pm. Hearing faint horns around 54th St at 6:40pm. The train sure is going very slow. Hasn’t passed 68th St yet Maybe the train already passed 68th St but I’ll wait around for 20 minutes or so Heading home at 7:2...

Not forgetting this time. SB Grand Elk out of GR blowing at the 32nd St crossing at 6:23pm.

~Z~ wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:57 pm

Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 5:55pm. WAMX 3807, WAMX 4002, and 44 cars.

Heard the horns at 32nd and forgot to post an update. Oops!

GRHC wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 05, 2024 2:22 pm

Is what I really wonder is why they started running their engines nose to nose instead of back to back like they were.

To piss off railfans.

dalek ling wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:19 pm

That’s me, I never claimed to work for the railroad, I just posted a leak from a “former” rail employee

Wait, you're Parker Eling? Well that sure explains a lot. HEYooooooo.

Reuben Kincaid wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 30, 2024 11:41 am

Very interesting??

Are you asking if it's very interesting?

Well-- now that the info, and the pics are PUBLIC INFO--- what is stopping another RR from going there, and actually finding out what it was. The spillage is probably still there. Someone could figure it out. There goes the confidential part, right out the window. If you want to know so badly, why ...

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 31, 2024 10:36 am

M327-31 @ 10:50 Grand Rapids, Mi mark up at Lamar mp CG3.5 with the RN Dispatcher: CSX engines #5380 + #8801 & 58 cars (33 loads + 28 empties) @ 4,860 tons & 3,500 feet long. He's ready to depart.

Hearing faint horns in Grandville/Jenison area for the past 5 min.

10:05 pm. Lots of horn blowing to the north of GR. Still hearing them 5+min later. Local job cruising along Seward?

~Z~ wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 23, 2024 9:35 pm

All tours sold out, 9:30am one sold out the first it appears.

Darn. I forgot all about signing up. Oh well.

Schteinkuh wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:45 am

Yeah bring your girl to the rrfan meet lil bro, gonna be embarrassing when she’s going home with Max

David Collins wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:24 pm

OldBastard wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:26 pm

David Collins wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:51 pm

I will be there, I’ll bring the supercharged hemi and the girlfriend with.

So it's a show and tell session too

Someone brought a scatpack last year so I felt obligated to bring my hemi with this time

I think he was talking about your girlfriend.

Now hearing a second set of horns, maybe more toward downtown GR. A little higher in tone than the previous horns heard. Local? Marquette? Who knows.

Sunday? Poop on that.

SD80MAC wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 18, 2024 9:10 am

Wow, the 2680 is back in Grand Rapids after a nearly 8 year absence. For those of you who are newer, 2680 was assigned to GR for well over a decade, once upon a time.

Oh hey, there it is. January 2011. I’m sure I have more photos of it buried on my hard drives too.

Train departing GR right now. I’m sitting on my back deck (facing east) and the horns are echoing off neighboring houses. Can’t tell if it’s heading east or west out of town. Been blowing at crossings for several minutes though.

Hearing horns and the low rumble of locos in Grandville right now. M327 heading out?

There are a few questions that need to be asked, but no matter what, this is a sad case where a newlywed was killed. From other articles it sounds like he simply wasn't paying attention to what was happening as he turned into his driveway and is sadly cost him his life. Supposedly his wife was in t...