How many time does HESR pick up or deliver cars to Bad Axe, Kinde
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I know Big Chief Sugar (Pioneer Sugar in Sebewaing is a big customer for them)
With normal operations, Bad Axe based stuff will tie down back in Bad Axe.trainjunkie47 wrote:Where does the HESR tie down in the thumb when they are not moving around?
That's where I'm curios, it's not unheard of to hear trains referred to as their old symbols for years and years. When BNSF changed to alpha-numerics, it was common for the trains to be called by their old numbers. I'd like to see a copy of their orders to show for sure they are called those numbers. It's easier to say 702 then it is to say T-BCDU, know what I mean?Don Simon wrote:Wayne, this is not the definitive answer but the guys who have the scanners and can listen in still identify the CMGN and HESR trains by their old symbols. If there was a change locally would they hear it over the scanners?
I know what you mean Wayne...it's easier for me to the former GTW lines CMGN than that other four letter acronymn, know what I meanIt's easier to say 702 then it is to say T-BCDU, know what I mean?
The Croswell job (runs to the sugar plant in Croswell...) sometimes reminds me of B1G, in that it gets to it's farthest away point (or almost there) and then ties down for the night- like B1G ties down in Dowagiac or Niles every so often...cnw8835 wrote:With normal operations, Bad Axe based stuff will tie down back in Bad Axe.
The 800 Job out of Saginaw normally makes it out to the Arthur area and ties down just short of M-15 depending on train length. If they have more time, the 800 job will take the train farther east (I've seen them make it as far as Fairgrove) and the 805 crew will pick it up there.
I know this is kind of a long time late answer, but I was reading through past posts (saturday boardum, LOL) and it triggered my mind, I believe the train symbols are still numeric, I have heard them say "800" on the scanner as well as 740, 702/701, and even 704.GTWTD3 wrote:I'm not sure how many of you follow operations as obsesively as I do, but Railamerica recently went to a standardized system of train symbols, or at least was supposed to be going to a standardized system. RA has gone through several phases of symbols on the Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern just since I've been dispatching for a year and a half now. Supposedly T, L, or Y will be the first designation of the train (to stand for through train, local, and yard job respectively) followed by two letters for origin and destination. For example, what was Roustabout 3, then LIYD, then LIPG, is now called Y-LILI for yard job Lima to Lima. The point of this message, is there any word if HESR or CMGN has gone to a similar system, or are they still using the number based symbols?
It could be the place that handles ingots. But I'm not sure if they're in or outbound.There is a place that gets boxcars just east of the I75 overpass, but I don't know if they get loads or empties...just that I usually see four or five in the place at a time. There's an industrial park there, east of I75, and there may be more than one customer there. I haven't explored it at all yet though...
Should be inbound. That facility is where the ingots are melted, then put in vats, and trucked to Saginaw Metal Casting Operations. There the vats are poured into foams blocks, where the metal actually melts the foam. This style of casting, known as the "lost foam process" has eliminated a majority of sand moulds for casting at this facility.Don Simon wrote:It could be the place that handles ingots. But I'm not sure if they're in or outbound.There is a place that gets boxcars just east of the I75 overpass, but I don't know if they get loads or empties...just that I usually see four or five in the place at a time. There's an industrial park there, east of I75, and there may be more than one customer there. I haven't explored it at all yet though...