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Decent tour around the power plant today. Saw quite a few familiar faces... Glc392 and dad, ken borg and son, mqt1223, gp30m4206, and I believe gp15? Forget what username he said, but last saw him when I was working at the house of hobbies 25 years ago. Say hi if that's you. Tour was good, lots of ...

R job working on putting loads away and has prepared a set of empties to take out after.

Reuben Kincaid wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2024 11:10 am

Maybe the painter lives closer to Cadillac and dosen't want to drive to Owosso!!!

You don't have to yell

7210+8 on L302-24, running elephant style with 87 cars. By Howell at 18:54. 19:54 - Thru the diamond at Trowbridge. 7210 put on quite the smoke show as they accelerated after being stopped by CN. Looks like CSX is getting ready to replace the signals at the diamond. Were there new signals up or jus...

Question for anyone, I’ve seen on some of the live cams around the country that BNSF is using the MRL’s ACes as pushers on coal drags. Firstly, cause I don’t check here everyday, has one made its way on C800 up here yet? Secondly, any chance it might or have they only been using them on certain oth...

AARR wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:21 am

Why build a run around siding there when there is already one in Grawn just a few miles south?

Tracks are "severed" south of beacon so you can't get there. Yes easy fix but they are still cut to separate the railroad from the rail bikes for now.

I wonder what the range is on a transload site such as this. 15-20 miles? I thought I read somewhere‘s on RailRoadFan.com that the WMI was transloading apples that were transported up to Traverse City Michigan for Gogo Squeez. So who knows what the actual range on a transload site could be. Here’s ...

Nathan, the 2 bays on MQT go to Manistee, I forget exactly what they carry, but the product is used to make roof shingles. It’s newer business from sometime in the last 2 years or so. Cool, I was not aware of this, thanks Jon. 09:40 Y106 heading east from Beacon after picking up 1 and setting off 2...

326 is getting on home rails finally.

M326 is just now at 492 on NS, had to wait for an inspector and NS ran 327 off first. I don’t see W001 behind him as of yet.

L301 east clear Saint Joe bridge 17:12

If he continues on track he will be two hours early into Willard. Plan accordingly.

The plant has almost no stock pile on the ground and almost everything they are dumping goes right into the bunkers inside the units themselves with almost none of it going on the ground. Until recently the plant had been depleting their stock pile and hadn’t been supplying as much power due to the ...

8952’s PTC was cut out/not working last I knew, doesn’t mean it hasn’t been corrected but I don’t expect it to lead back out. Do we know if they will tie down at GJ/Wells or keep going up to West Olive? And if tying down at any of these locations will the DPU be kept on the west end or brought aroun...

Everything they do is unloading except they do load boxcars but main business is unloading hoppers from Oxy.

Is Cal Chlor the business that used to receive lime or was that the Dow plant? That was the Dow, now Oxy plant along the lake. To answer the original question though it is an expansion of Cal Chlor of Ludington, it has up their capacity from an 8 car full spot to 15, but that being said it has actu...

Bagwell is indeed in charge over there and I expect a lot of good changes and some that will also probably change things up that may not be liked by the railfan community. Any further information or ideas about what might be changing? Right now not much that I can elaborate on as I’m not sure what’...

If it's like most other businesses they can't hire enough people What's holding up their take over of the Newberry line now? They have hired crews and are training over on the WSOR for the GDLK Munising line and for the FOXY. The hold up for both lines is still the STB approval. The engine(s) for F...

Bagwell is indeed in charge over there and I expect a lot of good changes and some that will also probably change things up that may not be liked by the railfan community.

D705 west clear Grand Ledge 0642, 17 cars.