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0540 - Grand Elk southbound Grand Rapids Bridge St (CSX Track) w/ 22 covered hoppers.

Thursday April 3, 1980 . I caught the C&O South Local for a bit today. The train left Traverse City about 11:30 this morning. I caught it a few miles down the line southbound passing the Ross Koepea Consumers Power Generating Plant, traveling between the power lines, sand dunes and Lake Michigan. I...

MQT 3390 2041 3408 3407 with 70* Loaded Covered Hoppers. OS Watson (west side Grand Rapids) southbound at 2113 hrs.

I see at least a couple dozen loaded CSXT coal hoppers at Hughart this morning.

The railroads better be careful parking and holding inhibited monomers. That will become a big problem. Boom.

Saturnalia wrote: There are yard limit boards at Mill Creek. While in that zone they're under restricted speed rules, IIRC.

Going that slow from at least 7 Mile Rd

Marquette Southbound through Comstcok Park at 05:42. Moving slow (presumably to avoid Amtrak). I was able to keep up with FRED on my two wheeler southbound Mill Creek Ave. I was not quite fast enough to catch the head end

Michael wrote:This one is up north but not from Google Street view

Cadillac

[quote="Raildudes dad"]No morning updates on the GRE since the City of GR has closed the intersection of Ann & Turner for a week. (The City has messed with my 2.3 mile commute thru that intersection every year for the last 5 years. No more street to tear up there for a while LOL). Hmmm. That's nice ...

Pixl wrote:Z, You be right. Now how would you happen to know this when you live in GR?

Any how let me try to stump you with this difficult one, painted the same color.

Bay Shore west of Petsokey - Old C&O over US31

I am attempting to install a decoder in this rig, and I lost the little "insert" that is found inside the flywheel that attaches to the drive train. Of course, I cannot find my box with parts diagram, and I cannot find for sure the correct part number on the Kato website, there is no diagram there e...

Grand Elk SBD Leonard St (Gd Rapids) Engine lite at 11:48.

Yes

MQT1223 wrote:

Raildudes dad wrote: A RC employee who was a CM volunteer facilitated a deal where the C&M could have the signal bridge at no cost if they would remove it at no cost to the RC.

That RC guy keeps turning up here and there and everywhere!!!!!

Jetlink wrote:Q334 Made a fairly good run to Plymouth then. About three and half hours from Lake O to Plymouth. The best times I've ever seen are around 3 hours even.

By Haggadorn (East Lansing - East end Trowbridge) apx 7:15 pm.

Actually Plainfield north of Leonard is down to one line each way and it moves just fine...used to be four lanes, now two with turn lane/median Only fine when it is not school/special event time, otherwise a choked up mess - especially near the vegetation canyons they put in where there should be l...

That's a "restricting" aspect according to CSX's "Seaboard rules", Dang here comes more southern influence first gray now lunar. (At least gray is disappearing, for now) I would think that lunar would blend in with background street lighting etc. Maybe my old eyes.... But then the amber street ligh...

The signal aspect for P370-30 to "back west" into the station at Pleasant St. was red over red over white. I have not seen that aspect up here before.

trnwatcher wrote:19:08 EDT K90105 JUST GAVE UP THEIR EC1 FROM ENSEL TO LAKO. SOUNDS LIKE THEY MAY BE SHORT ON TIME. RN HAS THEM LINED INTO THED COACH LEAD ALREADY.

EDIT: TRAIN IS K931....PER WYOMING YM. CREW IS CALLING SIGNALS AS K90110.

By Pleasant St at 8:01 pm with 48 cars.

P371 with 126, then 34024, 35009, 34018 and 35008 (Superliners) on time at Lake Michigan Dr in GR