CSX Train Location Updates: March 2021

[Tom49801]

Amtrak P371-10 @ 08:15am westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 16 axles & 307 ft long. IDTX engine #4631 & 3 SuperLiners.

D702-10 @ 08:24am eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 84 axles & 1,180 ft. CSXT engines #6244 + #2742 & 19 cars.

Q327-10 @ 08:29am westward reported by DD mp CG44.2 w/ 576 axles & 8,500+ ft long (last 2 digits for the footage was cut off). CSXT engines #3191 + #5432 & 141 cars.

[donnieland]

327 and 702 wednesday
327
3191 lead, 5432 trail, 576 axles, 141 cars

809a - clear new richmond
815a - clear fennville
821a - clear pair wells
828a - 44.2 - 576 axles, 85??'
3191 lead, 5432 trail with 141 cars
327 could be close to tonnage limit to pull the hill out of the st joe river basin
with 2 motors.
use to be double track up the hill from sj ( st joseph ) 86.4 to v ( vine ) 90.2
removed mid 80's iirc, also removed in the 2010's was a single cross over at gray.
we end of the x over was on 2 track and the ee end was on 1 track. the signals
are still rn controlled. the reason was to make a siding between gray and riverside
to meet trains, if a train was working benton harbor yard. a local worked the
benton harbor, st joe area and another local worked benton harbor to rn ( hartford )
to either co ( paw paw ) to the east or to sn ( south haven ) to the west

829a - clear 46
832a - clear 49
836a - clear 51
841a - clear pair grand junction
847a - clear 58
854a - clear pair gross
902a - clear 66

702
6244 lead, 2742 trail with 19 covered gons for wyoming

806a - slow clear waverly - old siding to the main
815a - clear east wy
821a - clear ad ( zeeland )
824a - 19.1 - 84 axles, 1180'
6244 lead, 2742 trail with 19 covered gons

826a - clear vriesland
830a - clear we hudsonville
835a - clear ee hudsonville
838a - clear dewent
845a - stopped grandville to pick up 1 mt from standard limber
908a - slow app grandville - main to 1 track
914a - app ivanrest
will pick up 13 and 15 track for waverly and 7 bosziey in 5 track

[Tom49801]

Q327-10 @ 08:51:14am westward Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with CSXT engines #3191 + #5432 & 141 cars.

[BL2-1843]

D70609 had only 58 cars when it went by Howell at 05:45. In addition to the usual locomotives 8094+8350 was also on the head end, picked up at Lansing. DPU was on the rear. Z62409 was over on CSX last evening at the same time as the night before, setting off another 67 cars for CSX and picking up the 52 cars D708 had set off for them. Three different units than the night before having 383+382+329 this time.

[LansingRailFan]

D70609 had only 58 cars when it went by Howell at 05:45. In addition to the usual locomotives 8094+8350 was also on the head end, picked up at Lansing. DPU was on the rear. Z62409 was over on CSX last evening at the same time as the night before, setting off another 67 cars for CSX and picking up the 52 cars D708 had set off for them. Three different units than the night before having 383+382+329 this time.

8094+8350 are both not working rn. 4037 isn't working too hot either but still moves. It seems like CSX has too many locos in storage atm.

[Tom49801]

Q327-10 @ 10:07am westward reported by DD mp CG91.9 w/ 576 axles & 8,622 feet. CSXT engines #3191 + #5432 & 141 cars.

[CantBeShook.WeHot]

q32610 curtis IN. q32710 new buffalo MI. d70210 lamar grand rapids. d70509, d70510, d70610 in system. d70609 arrived detroit 7:20am. d70709 arrived lansing 3am. d70810 lansing 11am. e80108 on duty 1pm west olive.
q15010 fostoria OH. q15110 pemberville OH. q13110 dunkirk OH. q13209 arrived detroit 5am. q13210 bethel IN. q50810 on duty cincinnati. q50910 north baltimore. q56709 walbridge. q56810 eckles rd plymiouth mi.

[trnwatcher]

12:29 EST D702-10 CSXT 2742 WB CLEAR GRANDVILLE.

[Tom49801]

D702-10 @ 12:56pm westward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 w/ 196 axles & 2,611 ft. CSXT engines #2742 + #6244 + & 47 cars.

[Tom49801]

Q326-10 @ 1:32pm eastward reported from Benton Harbor mp CG87.5 with CSXT #5235 + 1 & 89 cars.

E801-08 @ 1:56pm copied his EC1 to depart Hiawatha Ave mp CGP 1.0 with CSXT engines #989 + #586 & BNSF engines #6125 + #5908 & 129 empty coal cars. He will be setting off the 2 CSXT engines into the east end of Grand Jct siding mp CG53.9 He'll wait for Q326 to pass Holland before entering the main.
[Note: turns out he actually had 130 empty coal cars]

[Steve B]

Eastbound by Trowbridge at 1359.

[Tom49801]

Q326-10 @ 2:21:22pm eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSXT engines #5235 + #5354 & 89 cars. He will be picking up the 28 cars at Holland today that Q327 didn't get this morning. D801-10 has been called to re-crew them at 3:15pm.

Q326-10 @ 2:50pm eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 368 axles & 5,303 feet long.

[ns8401]

Q21508 North by Wayne at 235pm
CSX 5320 ES40DC
CSX 4014 SD40-3
43 Racks

[ns8401]

D73609 South by Romulus at 331pm
CSX 362 AC4400CW
52 Mixed

11 Auto Racks on the head end.

[Tlout]

West Olive empties south at Riley St. Holland 3:37 PM. CSXT and BNSF power.

[Tom49801]

Q326-10 @ 3:41pm eastward cleared the Holland Depot mp CG25.25 with CSXT engines #5235 + #5354 & 89 cars. He is to stop his train clear of the west leg of the Wye to allow E801-08 to enter the main & head westward. Q326 will leave his train on the main & take his engines into Holland & be re-crewed there by D801-10 & to pick up the 28 cars Q327-10 did not do this morning.

[Tom49801]

West Olive empties south at Riley St. Holland 3:37 PM. CSXT and BNSF power.

That is E801-08 with CSXT engines #989 + #586 & BNSF engines #6125 + #5908 & 129 empty coal cars. He will be setting off the 2 CSXT engines into the east end of Grand Jct siding. [Turns out he actually had 130 empty coal cars]

E801-08 @ 4:00pm westward cleared the Holland Depot mp CG25.25

[ns8401]

E80310 South by Romulus at 404pm
BNSF 6412 ES44AC
BNSF 6429 ES44AC
130 Hoppers

[Tom49801]

E801-08 @ 4:50pm westward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 544 axles & 7,064 feet long. CSXT engines #989 + #586 & BNSF engines #6125 + #5908 & 130 empty coal cars.

[BL2-1843]

To save amessmann from having to keep score, D70810 departed Ogihara east at 4:38pm after setting off three scrap empties and picking two loads behind nine. Left all eleven cars there, cleared Ann Pere diamond at 4:50 to take the remaining 35 cars in its train, all for GLC, to Brighton to run around them. More ash cars on the rear going east which be on the head end coming back. Coming back west, they will leave the 35 GLC cars parked on the main, and pick up the 67 cars GLC set off in the Howell pass last night and return back west to Lansing. Remains to be seen if they will pick up the 11 cars left at Ogihara or save them for another day. Cleared MP51 at 4:55pm