CSX Train Location Updates - Sept 2024

[Tom49801]

R598-20 @ 15:54 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG44.2 Pearl, Mi with 544 axles. BNSF engine #9107 & 130 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9036 & CSX engines #819 + #966. He’ll take Grand Jct siding mp CG54 & tie down.

[Mikeyt2004]

L303-20 has CSX~81 and CSX~315 with 156 cars.

[Andy24]

L303-20 @ 16:12 eastward Breton Road mp CH146 with CSX #81 YN2 leader and CSX #315 with 156 cars. A heavy train today by the sounds of rail screeches and cleared the cleared the crossing after 5 minutes.

In consist: small group batches of tankers on head end, mid train and rear end, 15-20 ish 55-65ft boxcars, 8 LPG tankers, 10 coil cars, good amount of 2 bag hoppers (loaded with sand?), 27 3-bay hoppers (phosphate? / grain? /plastic pellets?), 2 empty bulkheads, 3 loaded centerbeams and 2 empty rock hoppers.

Rush hour drivers wasn’t happy to see a freight train interrupt their drive home.

[Mikeyt2004]

L303-20 @ 16:12 eastward Breton Road mp CH146 with CSX #81 YN2 leader and CSX #315 with 156 cars. A heavy train today by the sounds of rail screeches and cleared the cleared the crossing after 5 minutes.

In consist: small group batches of tankers on head end, mid train and rear end, 15-20 ish 55-65ft boxcars, 8 LPG tankers, 10 coil cars, good amount of 2 bag hoppers (loaded with sand?), 27 3-bay hoppers (phosphate? / grain? /plastic pellets?), 2 empty bulkheads, 3 loaded centerbeams and 2 empty rock hoppers.
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Rush hour drivers wasn’t happy to see a freight train interrupt their drive home.

It was bad downtown, traffic was backed over a mile either direction when the last rail car cleared the crossing a couple people were cheering lol.

[Tom49801]

L303-20 @ 17:06 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH126.3 Clarksville, Mi with 636 axles. CSX engines #81 + #315 & 156 cars.

[Mikeyt2004]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

[Andy24]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

I bet that GRE Yard is jammed up. Y297 could take the empties SB if GRE left some. That Grand Rapids Wye area is always jammed with traffic on all sides especially for L303/L302 or Y106 that goes 10mph in and out of yard limits.

[Tom49801]

L301-20 @ 17:31 westward reported from the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 68 axles. CSX engine #2009 & 16 cars. He is headed to Arlington Metals in Sawyer, Mi mp CG105.2

L301-20 @ 17:43 westward, Main Track to siding, Livingston mp CG97.4 (assuming a loaded coal train is nearing).

L303-20 @ 17:49 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 636 axles. CSX engines #81 + #315 & 156 cars.

C801-19 @ 18:04 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 516 axles. BNSF engine #6361 & 126 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5893.

[BL2-1843]

L302-20 by Howell at 17:37 with 95 cars per the 392 axle count on the DD at Fowlerville. Did not see the train. Going through Williamston at 18:07.

[Tom49801]

E801-19 @ 18:09 Grand Jct Siding mp CG55.4 job briefing with the RN Dispatcher: BNSF engine #9107 & 130 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9036 @ 2,700 tons & 7,100 feet long. He’s ready to depart & proceed westward.

[David Collins]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

That Grand Rapids Wye area is always jammed with traffic on all sides especially for a train that goes 10mph in and out of yard limits.

He’s talking about the yard Andy. Not road traffic.

[Mikeyt2004]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

I was incorrect the empty gons did not go to Padnos, went to whoever their client is to the north? They came back with 3 loaded ones.

[Tom49801]

E801-19 @ 18:38 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG66.2 Hartford, Mi with 532 axles. BNSF engine #9107 & 130 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9036. @ 2,700 tons & 7,100 feet long.

[Andy24]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

That Grand Rapids Wye area is always jammed with traffic on all sides especially for a train that goes 10mph in and out of yard limits.

He’s talking about the yard Andy. Not road traffic.

I was answering his two posts at once. The road traffic was for L303, David.

[kd_1014]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

I was incorrect the empty gons did not go to Padnos, went to whoever their client is to the north? They came back with 3 loaded ones.

If they didn’t go to Padnos Front St, they went to Padnos Turner St located north of Fuller diamond.

[Tom49801]

C801-19 @ 19:16 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG66.2 Hartford, Mi with 516 axles. BNSF engine #6361 & 126 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5893.

L301-20 @ 17:24 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 72 axles. CSX engine #2009 & 17 cars.

E801-19 @ 20:00 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi. with 532 axles. BNSF engine #9107 & 130 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9036 @ 2,700 tons & 7,100 feet long.

C801-19 @ 20:13 copied their EC1 to depart Grand Jct Siding mp CG54 & proceed eastward to the power plant in West Olive, Mi with BNSF engine #6361 & CSX engines #966 + #819 & 126 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5893.

[Mikeyt2004]

Y297 @ 17:19 northward at the wye no cars for the GRE (said the yard was jammed up) just empty gons heading to Padnos Front St.

I was incorrect the empty gons did not go to Padnos, went to whoever their client is to the north? They came back with 3 loaded ones.

If they didn’t go to Padnos Front St, they went to Padnos Turner St located north of Fuller diamond.

Ohhh I didn’t know they had them as a client, thanks! : )

[kd_1014]

I was incorrect the empty gons did not go to Padnos, went to whoever their client is to the north? They came back with 3 loaded ones.

If they didn’t go to Padnos Front St, they went to Padnos Turner St located north of Fuller diamond.

Ohhh I didn’t know they had them as a client, thanks! : )

Of course. Everything 297 works at Fuller is GRE, Haviland, Padnos, and occasionally Victor S Barnes.

[Tom49801]

L301-20 @ 20:16 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG66.2 Hartford, Mi with 72 axles. CSX engine #2009 & 17 cars. He'll be taking Grand Jct siding mp CG55.6 & tying down.

C801-19 @ 20:35 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG44.2 Pearl, Mi with 528 axles. BNSF engine #6361 & CSX engines #966 + #819 & 126 loaded coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #5893. He had added the CSX power at the east end Grand Jct Siding mp CG54 & is headed to the power plant in West Olive, Mi.

L301-20 @ 20:45 eastward, Main Track to siding, Grand Jct mp CG55.6.

Amtrak P370-20 @ 20:46 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG108.9 Lakeside, Mi with 20 axles. IDTX engine #4622 & 4 cars.

E801-19 @ 21:03 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG108.9 Lakeside, Mi. with 532 axles. BNSF engine #9107 & 130 empty coal cars & rear dpu BNSF engine #9036 @ 2,700 tons & 7,100 feet long.

Amtrak P370-20 @ 21:05 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CG91.9 St Joseph, Mi with 20 axles.

C801-19 @ 21:15 eastward Holland, Mi Depot mp CG25.3 In about ½ mile he’ll diverge onto the west end of the Wye & onto the Fremont sub-division.

L302-20 @ 21:37 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 452 axles. CSX engines #3256 + #5640 & 110 cars. He had work in Lansing – final destination is Grand Rapids, Mi.

L302-20 @ 21:37 westward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 452 axles.

[Tlout]

C801-19 coal drag north at Riley St. Holland 9:33 PM.