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Q335 approaching Seymour right now. CSXT 52 leading.

X500 ready to depart GR. Not cleared out of the yard yet.

If anyone goes out to rail fanning today... Bundle up the wind chill will be below zero all day.
if you go out.. have fun and becareful

Doktor No wrote:Q326 sits at East Saugatuck as I write. P371 has only made it to Holland Depot as of 10:00 AM.
I marked off weather. This is some of the most radical weather I've seen in a few years and its foolhardy to venture out in it. With a 25 mile drive thru rural northern Kent County its LOINS FOOTBALL for me this afternoon. I'm STAYIN HOME!!!!!!!!!!
Doc in White Out Land

But Al Gore says man-made global warming is the most immediate threat facing us - with the record low temps this year around the world and the oceans cooling by two degrees over the past ten years is there a chance Al might be overstating things?

Be very careful out there today - it's hard to drive around Holland - road crews just don't seem to be out over here like they have been in past years.

Tlout wrote:road crews just don't seem to be out over here like they have been in past years.

I thought I read somewhere on michigan.gov about the reduced service of plows across the state due to budget problems...

Q32621 - EAST SAUGATUCK MI CG 32 12-21-2008 07:59
Q32720 -EE NEW BUFFALO CP MI CG 114 12-21-2008 05:48
Q32721 - annulled
Q33421 - ERIE MI CCA125 12-21-2008 09:47
Q33521 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 12-21-2008 09:44
CP X50020 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 12-21-2008 06:30
CP X50019 - BENSENVILLE IL DIH 40 12-20-2008 19:50(hmm?)
N90320 -CICERO IL DAL 32 12-21-2008 00:19
N90321 - hasn't left Chicago yet
N95419 - FLINT MI CC 35 12-21-2008 00:03
Amtrak p37121 - WELLS MI CG 42 12-21-2008 10:43
E94920 - not moving yet
D00620 - GRAND RAPIDS MI CG 1 12-21-2008 04:17

X500 just left after spending about a half hour cleaning out switches near Plaster Creek so they could get out of the yard. One of the heated switches isn't working. Dispatcher to X500 as they are getting ready to leave the yard: "You're not going to like this..."

Just heard some radio traffic from Q326 - thought we would try to get into town to get some pics - but the plows did come through about a half hour ago and it's gonna take some time to clear out the end of the driveway...

Q32720 is dead at New Buffalo.

Doktor No wrote:...its LOINS FOOTBALL for me this afternoon. I'm STAYIN HOME!!!!!!!!!!
Doc in White Out Land

LOINS football???

Zack wrote:CP X50019 - BENSENVILLE IL DIH 40 12-20-2008 19:50(hmm?)

Interesting...apparently Bensenville isn't too far away from here...if it were a couple dozen degrees warmer, I might have considered venturing over that way to try to see it...assuming, of course that it exists as anything other than a number in a computer...

A FEW NOTES FROM EARLY MORNING
327 WENT WEST APPROX 200AM
RN TO 327 - WILL MEET X500 AT GRAND JUNCTION, 500 JUST BY SAWYER, RN WANTS TO GET THEM AS CLOSE
AS POSSIBLE TO WYOMING BEFORE THEY DIE DUE TO THE ROAD CONDITIONS HERE.
D006 MADE THE WAVERLY PICKUP BEFORE GOING TO WYOMING
THOUGHT I HEARD 326 MADE HOLLAND BUT WENT ON HOS, RECREW WILL HAVE TROUBLE GETTING TO THEM,
OTTAWA COUNTY HAS PULLED THEIR PLOWS OFF THE ROADS PER WZZM SPECIAL REPORT.
HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SEE PAST THE CP TRANSMISSION LINES TO THE WEST ALL MORNING HERE.

Saw a couple of trains in Plymouth a while ago:
Q272 (I'm guessing; scanner was silent) at 12:45, with CSX 7396 + 8805 pulling 25 cars north then east around the Toledo wye.
Q216-21 at 13:10, going in the opposite direction, with CSX 647 + 4779 pulling 26 cars.

With Zack's update, looks like I won't need to wait for Q327-21...

PlymouthStationGuy wrote:If anyone goes out to rail fanning today... Bundle up the wind chill will be below zero all day.
if you go out.. have fun and becareful

I might be crazy but not that crazy I'd rather watch the Lions kick some butt than freeze mine off...

cnw8835 wrote:Q335 approaching Seymour right now. CSXT 52 leading.

Anyone happen to know what the trailing unit, or units, behind CSXT 52 on todays Q335 was? Not that there is anyone crazy enough to be out and about today to see it. If Plymouth Station Guy, or SW wants to venture out, X500-20 with CP 9674 is going by Howell as I type at 1446 hrs. He has an Oak set off today.

X500-20 clear Brighton, South Lyon, Salem and Beck Road at 3:35pm.

Q326 will probaly be recrew by light power out of grr.

Stitch wrote:

PlymouthStationGuy wrote:If anyone goes out to rail fanning today... Bundle up the wind chill will be below zero all day.
if you go out.. have fun and becareful

I might be crazy but not that crazy I'd rather watch the Lions kick some butt than freeze mine off...

Hey Eric should that be the other way around watch the Lions get their butts kicked...wait they did 42-7

E441-19 just cleared 7 Mile Rd.

The weather wasnt that bad here. Got about 2-3 inches of snow last night and a little wind around 30mph, but I still made it out today to shoot the N954/Z144 pulling into Bay City around noon. Engines were BNSF 9609 and 5882.

SW wrote:E441-19 just cleared 7 Mile Rd.

E441-19 is stopped for X500 which is crossing Plymouth diamond now

PlymouthStationGuy wrote:E441-19 is stopped for X500 which is crossing Plymouth diamond now

Well that's weird. Mike T reported X500 cleared Beck at 3:35. It must have stopped at CH25, but for what? Crew change?