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Per Mr Hall, GLC is getting ready to head south soon in Durand with the 396 and 395. HESR is also waiting on CN to head north out of Durand. They're heading north as the 701 despite coming into Durand as the 740. It looks some of HESR's program is a little messed up with the current rail work going...

They use to always be used for storage, but makes sense to bring in 20-30 Emptys a week and take out 3 or so a day eight the road train... IIRC the plant has a track mobile to move the cars.... I have done a significant amount of work in a plant in Saline. I have never seen a track mobile in the pl...

The elevator in Carrollton has multiple short spurs. I've been told it can take a full day to load a unit train. Peavy/Gavilion grain has 4 spurs. 2 on the east, 2 on the west of the elevator. Each spur seems to hold a dozen to twenty cars. SOP is to spot the cars, broken in a few blocks on each li...

I just wanted to say that your weights and prices are so far off that it makes you look like you have no idea what your talking bout. I have cut over 1000 locos in my short career so if anybody has questions on loco scrap fire away Good for you. How about telling us the actual weights and prices? P...

Just a few Observations from the Saginaw area. Peavy/Gavilion grain in Carrollton is having some track work done. Looks to be mostly ties and ballast on the river side so far. Also see a few rails there too. On the south end the old C&O building used for the GM Malleable iron foundry crews has been ...

Ive been working in Port Huron at the old car shops for 3 weeks now. I have seen 1 BC Rail locomotive, and it may have been this one. What's going on down there? We could see work being done from across the yard, but weren't sure if they were cleaning the site up or if something else was going on. ...

Bc Rail 4612 just left the Port Huron yard running west. Didn't catch what was leading

Ive been working in Port Huron at the old car shops for 3 weeks now. I have seen 1 BC Rail locomotive, and it may have been this one.

That is LSRC, what you see off of strobel rd is what is known as Paines. Yes it is the line that goes to Alma

Hulcher is making a good bit off of Lake State as of late. Its been quite a while since I can remember any actual major track work in the area. I seem to remember tie work about 25 years ago. Short of some brush mowing, there has not been much done along there. I grew up in the subdivision just west...

Based on that info locomotives that I can't account for are the 9712, 3868, 9519, 8804, 3838, and 8802, not sure what is in the yard in Bay City, and I thought 9712 was on the Alma line, maybe someone could verify this for me. Last report I have heard of on the 9712 was it was at Paines in the last...

Lake state 1162 1178 & 1169 is on its way back from Paines with 65 car CSX grain train. Should be hitting Saginaw yard at 3:25

HESR 3865 and 3866 rail America corp paint are leading the durand job south thru genesse yard at noon

A Southbound HESR train was entering Saginaw 1520, a big cut of tankers and grain cars were all I saw. The 2nd unit appeared to be a GP38-2. Could this be a late 702 or 740? Im pretty sure those cars came off the 800 job today. Caught them sitting on the east side of the LSRC yard today early after...

Yesterday was a busy day for HESR by the sounds of it. Around 2:05pm A corp unti, I think 3868, crossed the Mershon diamond with 62 csx empty grain cars, assuming for Auburn.

Jochs wrote:I'll bet that will be the next excuse to raise the price of oil and gouge us at the pump!

Lets see what the greenies say about this. They keep saying pipelines are dangerous to the environment

Do not know the symbol, but CSX 975+507 are pulling an empty consumers coal train into the Saginaw yard now

I think oil trains will continue, especially as we shift to more to North American oil, and oil pipelines become more controversial. Or until pipelines are allowed to be built :lol: Good luck with that. A lot of refineries have upgraded their equipment for this oil. Marathon in Detroit is about don...

Timming is everything. Had to go to Menards and catch some local trains in Bay City today (just had to be done) Anyway caught HESR's 810 leaving Reese with 3866 for power, then off of I-75 I see LSRC's Bay City job working it's way through Crow Island power was 4302-1169. Caught HESR's 702 with 266...

Lake state thru Genesee yard with a unit train of empty hoppers for paines at apporx 12:40.