Me too Mr. Tops. First post I read every dayDon Simon wrote:I'm still reading your thread everyday. Thanks Mr Tops
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Me too Mr. Tops. First post I read every dayDon Simon wrote:I'm still reading your thread everyday. Thanks Mr Tops
Not necessarily. With all due respect to that engineer, and all other railroad employees, just like the rest of us, they tend to not recall the precise details of the past. I show MS shipped around 2,000 cars per year (about 8 per day) from 1991-1993. This includes cars from Webb, Dana, and a customer on the original GTW line. I show they handled around 4,000 cars a year (around 16 per day) from 1995-1997, inclusive of Nugent, Webb, and Dana. So it is possible they switched 38-40 cars on one or a few more days, but if they did it every day they would have handled over 9,000 cars in a year from Nugent alone and I am not aware they ever handled close to that number since 1987 when CMGN took over.Mr. Tops wrote:The engineer has been with RA for quite a while and was reminiscing about the early-mid 90's when they had RS3 1077 and would haul 38-40 cars a day out of Nugent. They would shove them from the Henry Street yard (only a mile or two away) as to avoid having to do a double run around. I know back in the GTW days (and maybe early MS days) they hauled a lot out of there, but the mid-90's is when I start remembering the trains and don't seem to remember them ever hauling that much, but I suppose he would know better than I!
Hmmm, it could very well be a Prime. Only to find out is climb up there and take a look (with permission of course) .Mr. Tops wrote:Don, most EMD's have a low growl when they are working. GP38s are definitely no exception. They are BRUTES!
Jon, that horn has sounded like that for as long as I can remember ever since MS 73 replaced MS 1077. I wish they'd get MMRR 3836's RS5T back on it. I'm not completely sure if Big Blue's horn is an RS3L or PM-920...?
I just heard that at one time GTW was running a weekly unit train of sand from MuskegonDon Simon wrote:I was told that GTW would run trains out of Muskegon 3 days a week rather than daily. That would make for longer trains out of Muskegon.
That was in the early 80's when they ran Durand to Muskegon one day, the crew laid over night and and Muskegon to Durand the next.Don Simon wrote:I just heard that at one time GTW was running a weekly unit train of sand from MuskegonDon Simon wrote:I was told that GTW would run trains out of Muskegon 3 days a week rather than daily. That would make for longer trains out of Muskegon.