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LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 6:03 am
by AARR
KC caught LSRC hauling a string of its blue aggregate hoppers to A&L in Gaylord the other day. They are probably going to be scrapped but I have seen those types of hoppers used in scrap service on other railroads.
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:59 pm
by CAT345C
I'd say scrap cars going to be scrapped. A&L does bid rail car scrapping from time to time and will travel to off site locations for railcar scrapping or anything of large metal hauls.
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:22 pm
by JDavis21835
They are there for scrap. There was a string of the same hoppers at OMNISOURCE in Bay city a few weeks ago
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:50 am
by Racer
JDavis21835 wrote:They are there for scrap. There was a string of the same hoppers at OMNISOURCE in Bay city a few weeks ago
Loading scrap or being scrapped? If they are being scrapped, I assume it's not a good future with traffic for Lafarge in Alpena?
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:49 am
by LSRC
To my knowledge, those cars were never used in LaFarge service anyways, Chris.
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:25 am
by Saturnalia
LSRC wrote:To my knowledge, those cars were never used in LaFarge service anyways, Chris.
We have a winner...LaFarge has not shipped stone from Alpena in decades. There used to be shuttle service from Paxton to Alpena, but even that ended long before the LSRC got these cars in particular. IDK, because it all happened before I really started paying attention to this stuff, but didn't LSRC buy these cars knowing lots of them were junk? They fixed up a few dozen using the collective bunch and they're just now scrapping the rest. I'm not sure on that, but I remember reading an OLD thread about it some time ago.
Lafarge only gets open-top hoppers of Gypsum, but those have always used the black hoppers. The PI transload uses the red and block ones, and Specification uses the blue ones. At least that is how I've always seen it.
Alpena will ship out stuff based on current demand. The housing market is still really crappy so not much. Inbound stuff competes with truck, so yes from time to time that gets yanked by the truckers. I wouldn't be worried about Alpena just yet.
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:35 pm
by patrick
The blue stone hoppers are in GENERAL SERVICE.. meaning they can and do go whereever LSRC sends them. Most, if not all the white former Bute andaconda and pacific , black former BN and red Former MKT, former D&M hoppers have been or are being or will be scrapped in Bay City at Omnisource. to date they've scrapped well over 100 cars. The blue cars could be up to gaylord for a number of things, Storage, ballast for a problem or derailment area, scrap, though scrap isn't likely as it'd damage the supports inside these cars. I supposed its possible A&L is scrapping them, but i wouldn't know why as omnisource has and is still doing the other cars. Even the black newer 343--- series cars are being cut up due to being in really bad shape. LSRC has bought a couple hundred, so i've been told, of the 3 bay ortner hoppers and those will replace any cars cut up. Wish
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:15 pm
by J T
CAT345C wrote:I'd say scrap cars going to be scrapped.
Will there then be scrap cars hauling the scrap cars that were scrapped?
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Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:07 am
by amtrak1007
J T wrote:CAT345C wrote:I'd say scrap cars going to be scrapped.
Will there then be scrap cars hauling the scrap cars that were scrapped?
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scrap the whole thing railroads are inefficient.
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:23 am
by J T
Sounds like a bunch of scrap to me.
Re: LSRC Special Move to Gaylord
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:25 pm
by CAT345C
My post intended as the cars are scrap, junk, garbage, crap, likely going to be scrapped.