CSX Train Location Updates: August, 2018

[justin_gram]

N801 east at CG 89 at 12:48. BNSF 9039, BNSF 9259.

[trnwatcher]

13:38 EDT Y10622 SLOW APPROACH EE FOX.

[trnwatcher]

14:00 EDT Q32922 WB BY EE FOX.

[trnwatcher]

14:00 EDT Q32922 WB BY EE FOX.

CAUGHT THEM AT 36TH ST GRADE CROSSING. CSXT 52 AND 105 CARS.

[trnwatcher]

19:00 EDT Q32722 DOUBLING UP AT LAMAR. SAME POWER THAT CAME IN ON Q326 EARLIER TODAY AND THAT Q32721 HAD LAST NIGHT.
EDIT 122 CARS PAST GRANDVILLE AT 19:40.

[trnwatcher]

19:40 RN WAS TELLING 327 TO HOLD SHORT AT HUDSONVILLE OR 112TH. COAL WAS DOUBLING THE HILL AND HAD BOTH TRACKS AT SAUGATUCK BLOCKED CURRENTLY.

[justin_gram]

Sounded like both the coal trains doubled the hill today... Not sure if 326 needed to as well.

[Jochs]

P370-22 is currently going through Benton Harbor. Sounds like IDTX 4615 leading.....20 axles.

[justin_gram]

D801 with BNSF 9039 (N801’s recrew) just got an EC1 to go up to the plant, currently at Saugatuck. Amtrak has been stuck behind them for almost 1 1/2 hours now.

Amtrak has an SC44 Charger on each end tonight.

[~Z~]

GDLK Z739 in downtown GR as of 12:25am. Amtrak is between Saugatuck and Holland for last 30 mins, d80122 up around north end of the wye in Holland. q32722 has been out at Hudsonville for a long time now... they have been tying up the main roads in Hudsonville for a while... should have stayed east of town for longer than they did.

[justin_gram]

N800 with BNSF 9066 leading is east at Paw Paw CG 85 on track 1 at 07:15.

[~Z~]

Dunno yet if n800 will get a shove at Wells or if they'll cut into two halves again today. Q326 somewhere in Indiana, and sounds like a e80022 due out of west Olive early afternoon.

[Tlout]

Y121 CSX 6063 and caboose north at Riley St. Holland 8:23 AM.

[C&OGP75745]

Y121 CSX 6063 and caboose north at Riley St. Holland 8:23 AM.

CSX 6063 is ex Chessie GM50, Lots of gold paint underneath current paint.

[BL2-1843]

Q32923, CSXT 5391, single unit with 38 cars by Howell at 09:45. Earlier, Q32823 by Howell at 07:17 with single unit CSXT 52 from yesterdays Q329. Nice to see your still around JJ. Seems as if it were only yesterday we were chasing GM50 around West Virginia.

[~Z~]

As of 10:08am, n80022 at new richmond with first half of train. D700 at saugatuck awaiting them, and will go west. Q326 at St Joseph.

[trnwatcher]

As of 10:08am, n80022 at new richmond with first half of train. D700 at saugatuck awaiting them, and will go west. Q326 at St Joseph.

What happened to the pushers? Trains have been doubling that hill now for almost a week. DId CSX cut the job off or something? Inquiring minds want to know.

[~Z~]

D70023 west at 131st Ave south of New Richmond at 10:46am. CSXT 2039, 8 covered hoppers, 2 empty flat cars, a box car, and 3 steel coil hoppers.
Sounded like N80022 was going to stay parked at Saugatuck. Pushers on duty to come grab their power, shove Q326 up the hill and then get the 2nd half of the train at Wells.

[justin_gram]

Q326 by Bangor Cam at 10:53 with cool power... CSXT 5240, CSXT 349??, and BNSF warbonnet 716.

[~Z~]

As of 11:48am - Q326 at Wells. N80022 at Saugatuck. Waiting on a crew for D80123 to be taxied to Saugatuck, take N800's BNSF power down to Wells to shove Q326, who is 580+ axles. E80022 got their EC1 to head south from West Olive, but will hold somewhere north of the north end of the wye in Holland until Q326 makes it by. Gate broken at Waverly/120th in Holland; dispatcher, MOW, and Y121 trying to decipher if it's Waverly or 120th D70023 is west near Bangor. Y121 near east end of Waverly.
Guessing q326 will get the shove, D80123 will go back to Wells to grab 2nd half of coal train. Have E80022 go west while at WElls, and have 2nd half coal train come up. D80123 crew is "lost in transit" so hopefully they find their way to the coal load soon, a few trains waiting on them as siding is plugged at both saugatuck and wells currently.
136th Ave crossing at Saugatuck is having activation failures because N80022's 1/2 train can't fit into Saugatuck well enough to not have the crossing gates go up and down. Fun times

12:54pm update - last car on q326 is a hazmat... finally realized that when D700 did their rollby earlier. d801 will grab last car of q326, shove it into siding behind coal loads at wells, and then push q326 up. d700 will apparently grab that tank car later, if they can ever get the 2nd cut of coal loads out of wells.