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A MOW truck and a car at the GRE. There's a few cars for King, that's it. There was 1 load and 1 empty yesterday afternoon inside the fence at Standard. The usual Amtrak.

Think that I heard Q326 clear Waverly - 7:08 AM...

1228am - n904 clear hudsonville
1228am - z627 slow app main to siding holland
1238am - n904 by 19.1 - 355 ld and 7195 trail - 5618' 404 axles - 98 cars
thanks to jq for trail unit and cars

1246am - n904 by east wy ( office call letters for waverly )
1253am - n904 enter roost block / north wye switch
127am - d700 by 19.1 - 1691' 132 axles - 31 cars
18 cars for z627 , 13 cars to go south - coloma, hartford,
livingston and waverly pickup eb
132am - d700 main to siding east wy
154am - d700 siding to main holland
201am - z627 siding to east leg of the wye waverly
205am - z627 enter roost block / north wye switch

600am - n904 by east waverly with eastern empties - crew wyed the
power at west olive 355 ld and 7195 trail - 5968'
424 axles - 103 cars
605am - by 19.1
711am - 326 by east wy
717am - 326 by 19.1 - 2343' 160 axles - 37 cars
810am - 371 has high green at east waverly

sorry but eyes refused to open whenever 327 went west by east waverly

That 'twas Q326..heard them going through Zeeland and Jenison on the way in this morning...
Q32614 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-14-2008 08:15
Q32713 - STATE LINE OS IN DCC 6 10-14-2008 08:16
Q32714 - set to leave Detroit at 2pm
Q33414 - ERIE MI CCA125 10-14-2008 08:18
Q33514 - MILLARD AVE OH CTT 37 10-14-2008 08:22
CP X50013 EE NEW BUFFALO CP MI CG 114 10-14-2008 08:16
D70013 - EAST SAUGATUCK MI CG 32 10-14-2008 08:20
Amtrak P37114 - HOLLAND MI CG 25 10-14-2008 08:23
No western coal to West Olive seen...
E94913 - 51ST INTERLOCKER IL DC 118 10-14-2008 07:47
E94914 - not moving yet
W08008 - TOLEDO DOCK OH CDA120 10-13-2008 23:00
K35611 - DETROIT MI CH 1 10-14-2008 01:25(arrived)
Don't see any eastern coal coming yet for West Olive.

E445-14 preparing to depart GR.

p371 wb by east waverly at 818am
d700 eb by east waverly at 1011am
conrail 4411 ld and csx 2567 trail with 81 cars

Q32614 - EAST END ELMDALE MI CH 131 10-14-2008 11:43
Q32714 - set to leave Detroit at 2pm
Q33414 WALBRIDGE TOWER OH CTT 67 10-14-2008 10:29
Q33514 - BRIGHTON MI CH 45 10-14-2008 11:51
CP X50013 - GRAND JCT MI CG 54 10-14-2008 11:47
D70013 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-14-2008 10:54
Amtrak P37114 - W MICHIGAN CITY CP MI CG 127 10-14-2008 10:41
E94914 - not moving yet
D70814 and D70914 - haven't left Lansing yet
E44514 EAST END ODESSA MI CH 117 10-14-2008 11:48 (eastern empties going east)

Q335-14 with CSX 7687, 8506, HLCX 7187 out of Fowlerville at 1230 running on red blocks. D709-13 never left the yard yesterday and was recrewed as D909-13 at 1800. Maybe they never had a crew to start with. Regardless, everybody but International Paper got switched again as they had to bypass it and "run for the barn" A last minute change of plans because of this and they put K903 & Q334 in the hole for THEM at Fowlerville and Williamston.

1:22pm - CSX symbol Q335 westbound at CH 79.9 (Okemos DD), running 4657 feet/338 axles behind lead CSX 7687. They reported an activation failure at Nicholson Road in Fowlerville.

K903.. is this the empty counterpart to stone load train K902 from Toledo to Lansing?

X500 nearing Elmdale by now. CEFX 115 & CITX 3079 for power.

cnw8835 wrote:X500 nearing Elmdale by now. CEFX 115 & CITX 3079 for power.

Everyone on the east side of the state hear that? An SD9043MAC is leading X500! Go and get pictures!!!!!

The eastern empty coal, met 335 at Trow Bridge, then proceeded to a stop at the EE Williamston, did 10mph between EE Williamston and WE Fowlderville. D709 was 10 cars behind, skipped ADM who was doing track work, and rolled to Thermofil where they are now, GP40 and a 38-2. Q236 was on the heels of 709 and then on the heels of the empty coal to Salem where they are now. Q327 met both trains at Brighton, and has a single SD50 leading, prolly into the Fowlerville mess right now.

Y320 returned to Wyoming Yard this morning with CSX 1556 for power, 3 boxes from Advanced Packaging, 1 gondola for an idler car and 7 LPG tanks from Alto Gas.
E445-14 met them in the interlocking at Sunnyside, CSX 355 & HLCX 7195 with 104 empty coal hoppers. Donnie covered D700.
Q326 out of GR shortly behind 445. CSX 8524 & 8511, 16 cars. Looked like 7 or 8 cars of lumber for Lowes in Grand Ledge. MQT 1057 & 1089 probably heading for IP in Howell.
36E came into town with NS 3537 & 3530 for power. 30-35 cars, lots of 86' high-cubes in the train. A couple more NS hoppers probably for scrap glass loading at Hughart. A couple loaded bulkhead flats also, most likely for Blue Linx on the Hughart Runner or for Van's on MQT.

Q32614 - DETROIT MI CH 1 10-14-2008 17:10
Q32714 - LANSING MICHIGAN AV MI CH 90 10-14-2008 18:27
Q33514 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 10-14-2008 15:56

D70814 - LANSING MI CH 87 10-14-2008 15:45
D90913 - NORTH LANSING MI CH 88 10-14-2008 05:20(tied up then)
D70914 - ANNPERE MI CH 52 10-14-2008 18:25
K90313 - WALBRIDGE OH CDA118 10-14-2008 08:11(lansing to walbridge to woodville OH)
CP X50013 - WILLIAMSTON MI CH 73 10-14-2008 18:05
E94914 - not moving yet
E44514 - ALEXIS OH CCA130 10-14-2008 18:24

E951/11 BNSF 9947,8938 went south to Toledo at 15:35

I stayed-out at the station until about 7pm and the signal at Hines Drive was not even green. Oh well, CP X500 about a year ago had a CEFX SD9043Mac and I caught that, so I'm not all that dissapointed.

X500-13 did not pass Howell untill 724pm running thru the AnnPere pass around D709, so you would have had a long wait yet Chris. D709, once again, did not have time to switch IP, which now means three working days in a row missed, and five total counting the weekend with the spur packed full of cars. (15 with six MQT's on the end) They took the same IP load back to Ensel with them that D909-13 took back with them earlier this morning.

I can't believe IP puts up with such crappy service. If we did that on the MQT, heads would roll. Somebody would be looking for a new job. Keep up the good work CSX. You won't be around much longer either.

PlymouthStationGuy wrote:E951/11 BNSF 9947,8938 went south to Toledo at 15:35

About 20 min after you left there was a three train meet on the diamond Y107 was first stopped other side of Farmer, then D717 came down the Toledo Wye stopped halfway to Farmer and the N904 came around the Southwest Wye. When I left the coal train was headed south and then heard Q326 getting clearance at MP25.