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Your 1st Trick GRE update:

Main Yard: Empty
North Interchange Track: Empty
South Interchange Track: Empty
Crew Parking Lot: Empty
24's Engine Shed: Well I hope 24 is still there!

As of 7:30 EST.

Q335 west at Seymour at 0750.

N956 at Lamar waiting to get into Wyoming Yard. Met Amtrak at Hudsonville.

Edit: Per the RN, the outbound crew for N956 will be on duty at 11:11. D707 is working at Grand Ledge.

09:45 N956 WAS SITTING ACROSS IVANREST BY 15+ CARS. TOWER JUST INFORMED CREW THAT THEY ARE TO PULL EAST DOWN THE MAIN. NO PUSHERS ON WEST END OF TRAIN SO I'M WONDERING IF THEY ARE WAITING FOR A PUSHERS CREW.

MMRR #24 was eastbound lite power across Leonard/Plainfield at 9:15 EST.

D708-28 ready to open up at Turner St. Ensel. Heading east to webberville.
Grain train at williamston.
D707 still at grand ledge.

Update:
Grain train westbound. Going to wait at Trowbridge for 708 to runaround.

brysonda wrote:Update:
Grain train westbound. Going to wait at Trowbridge for 708 to runaround.

Have you heard if the grain train is going to Grand Ledge or Grand Rapids?

CSX 6040 pushed a grain hopper north by Riley St. Holland about an hour ago, and is returning south with 1 boxcar from Stow at 10:29 AM. No caboose today.

cnw8835 wrote:Have you heard if the grain train is going to Grand Ledge or Grand Rapids?

RN dispatcher is trying to get ahold of the trainmaster to determine if they are going to build and run a G010, so I would guess that it would be GR if it happens.

brysonda wrote:

cnw8835 wrote:Have you heard if the grain train is going to Grand Ledge or Grand Rapids?

RN dispatcher is trying to get ahold of the trainmaster to determine if they are going to build and run a G010, so I would guess that it would be GR if it happens.

If they're going to do a G010, the train will likely go to Grand Ledge where the outbound crew will get off or run the power light to GR for servicing, then a G010 crew will take power back and load/build the train. Just my guess.

D707 Clear Woodbury westbound. CSX 4024 leading. 11:23AM

CSXT 7575, CSXT 78?? OS Williamston EB @ 11:10(?). Two locos and two or three covered hoppers. Is this the grain train that is being built out of Webberville?

Jetlink Driver wrote:D707 Clear Woodbury westbound. CSX 4024 leading. 11:23AM

Clear Thornapple at 11:58 with 2 TTX boxes, 5 empty center beams, 4 CHs and 2 empty gons.

Big T wrote:CSXT 7575, CSXT 78?? OS Williamston EB @ 11:10(?). Two locos and two or three covered hoppers. Is this the grain train that is being built out of Webberville?

Lets see, all this discussion on the grain train, let me put in my two cents worth as I try to put two and two together myself. The 90 car empty, should have been G74122, which has CSX 5293 & 258 for power. Trying to listen to hear if this was going to Webberville or Grand Ledge, with a bad locomotive radio, all I could hear (with the train at Williamston), and talking with the RN, they say it was going to be difficult to have time to get the train spotted. Hearing what "Big T" said above, am now wondering if the power at Williamston and three cars was a G010 train, and perhaps why the grain empty would have to run around their train at Trowbridge to come back east. Meanwhile, D708s crew has been AT Webberville switching for nearly an hour, regardless if on their own train, or the two units and three cars reported at Williamston. Am sure between all of us will get this figured out eventually, but with 90 cars, the empty should not be going to GRP for MQT.

Q335 had 5486 & 5392 for power this morning with 119 cars. Napco, or Dapco truck just slapped a 10mph speed restriction on west of Howell which the RN was not to happy about with another N956 load coming east.

The power at Willimaston with CSX 7575 & 7844 IS D708 who has now moved on down to Fowlerviile. The G74122 train now at Trowbridge IS for Webberville but the crew has now taxied home. It will be spotted by a G010 crew.

N956 east at Fox at 1323. BNSF 5896 & 9163 for power. D802 on the rear with this morning's 335 power.

D707 east at Seymour at 1405.

Z151 southbound in GR at Watson St at 1509. 3003 leading.
D700 arriving at Wyoming at 1515.

N956 in Lake Odessa at 14:23 BNSF leaders.

D707 heard on the scanner at 14:44. Not sure of location but if I can hear them somewhere between Lake O and Sunfield.