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Q327-03 thru Grandville. Lots of scrap gons up front.

Broadcastify's CSX West Michigan Scanner is picking some great calls this morning:

Q326-03 @ 08:43 reported from Republic mp DC 3.2 on the Barr Sub-division with CSXT 7809 leading.
Q326-03 @ 08:48 reported from Pine Junction mp DC 0.0

Amtrak P371-03 @ 09:02 westward reported by the DD mp CG131.3 with 16 axles & 310 ft. IDTX engine #4630 & 3 SuperLiners.

Q327-03 @ 09:20 westward reported by DD mp CG19.1 with 504 axles & 7,397 feet. CSXT engines #5326 + #5466 & 123 cars (45 loaded + 78 empties). He has no work for Holland.

Q326-03 @ 09:34 eastward reported by the DD mp CG131.3 with 316 axles & 4,337 ft. CSXT engines #7809 + 1 & 76 cars.

D706 sitting in the siding in South Lyon. D705 on the way from Plymouth with a green signal.

Q327-03 @ 10:21 westward reported by DD mp CG44.2 with 504 axles & 7,341 feet long. CSXT engines #5326 + #5466 & 123 cars.

Y106 eastbound between Fox and Elmdale currently with what looked like a GP40-3 and 12 cars.

Q326-03 @ 10:33 eastward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 316 axles & 4,287 ft. CSXT engines #7809 + 1 & 76 cars.

Q327-03 @ 10:42:10 westward Bangor's Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with CSXT engines #5326 + #5466 & 123 cars.

D705 with CSXT #594 + 8619 + 6005 clear south Lyon @10:45. 6005 has some panels on the side open and seems to be pretty beaten up. No idea what’s going on with him.

Edit: D705 cleared the DD @mp ch39.1 with 588 axles and 8,822 ft long. Also D706 is heading out of the siding in south Lyon with CSXT #286 + 131

E804-26 @ 11:20:42 westward Bangor’s Center St crossing mp CG60.35 with UP engines #6817 + #8781 & 117 empty coal cars.
This is a new train i.d. for coal trains that get their coal from the mines on the Union Pacific Railroad's line. These UP engines didn't arrive on a loaded coal train, they were brought in as part of Q326's consist recently.

Q327-03 @ 11:52 westward reported by DD mp CG91.9 with 504 axles & 7,432 feet. CSXT engines #5326 + #5466 & 123 cars.

​Q326-03 @ 12:15:40 eastward Bangor's Division St crossing mp CG60.93 with CSXT engines #7809 + #329 & 76 cars.

DriverJon wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:49 am

D705 with CSXT #594 + 8619 + 6005 clear south Lyon @10:45. 6005 has some panels on the side open and seems to be pretty beaten up. No idea what’s going on with him.

Edit: D705 cleared the DD @mp ch39.1 with 588 axles and 8,822 ft long. Also D706 is heading out of the siding in south Lyon with CSXT #286 + 131

Through CH80 Okemos at 12:39

CSX D735 south through Romulus w/ CSX 758 & LSRC 6356 (former CSX SD50) @ 1131 am 159 cars.

Q326-03 @ 12:52 eastward reported by the DD mp CG44.2 with 316 axles & 4,335 ft. CSXT engines #7809 + #329 & 76 cars.

E804-26 @ 12:56 westward reported by the DD mp CG91.9 with 480 axles & 6,335 feet long. UP engines #6817 + #8781 & 117 empty coal cars.

D708 with #6560+#4077 through East Lansing eastbound at 13:34

Any updates on D705 location guys ?

avery616 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:19 pm

Any updates on D705 location guys ?

May still be at Ensel Yd in Lansing working. Haven't listened to radio to get any other info

Q326-03 @ 15:13 eastward reported by the DD mp CG19.1 with 380 axles & 5,256 ft. CSXT engines #7898 + #329 & 92 cars.

avery616 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:19 pm

Any updates on D705 location guys ?

He got his EC1 at mp CG95 to proceed west to Grand Rapids @ 3:35pm

D705-03 @ 15:55 westward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 with 520 axles & 7,600+ feet. CSXT engines #594 + #8619 + #6005 & 126 cars.

D705-03 @ 16:31 westward reported by the DD mp CH126.3 with 520 axles.

Tom49801 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 03, 2021 3:56 pm

D705-03 @ 15:55 westward reported by the DD mp CH104.3 with 520 axles & 7,600+ feet. CSXT engines #594 + #8619 + #6005 & 126 cars (he’ll have 127 cars if he had set off the CSXT #6005).

He had 3 units on the head end. The third had all the hood doors open on the north side. Conductors side as it was facing east. All through lake o around 4:15

D708 was on its way west out of Howell as of 15:56, 4077 and 6560 with 22 cars.
4077 has "Full Warranty Thru 09/17" stenciled under the road number on the engineer's side.