early morning d801, 802, & 803

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early morning d801, 802, & 803

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this morning approx from 430am to 600am 2 coal loads went to west olive
hear d801 on headend and d802 pushing the loads up the hill to east saugatuck out of wells. d803 was pulling the loads out of grand junction at this time.
d801 stopped at east saugatuck to let d802 uncouple and run back to wells
and d801 went north to west olive
when d803 arr at wells on the main, they uncoupled and ran around the loads via the siding and coupled to the rear end, d802 then coupled to the
headend and up the hill the second loads for west olive went.
at east saugatuck d803 uncoupled from d802 and went back west to the siding at grand junction where the crew was cabbed back home.
d802 went north to west olive with the loads.
d802 came back south via cab and going east past east waverly with
a csx 6 axle motor and a pickup of approx 20 cars from y121 work from
friday, d700 must have had only the z627 pickup sat in it's consist.
the power for both loads to west olive stayed at west olive.
don baxter

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Don im going to say this is the CSX location thread for today, and I would just like to remind people MQT starts the daytime running for a while Monday. 10am Z151 is leaveing Baldwin. *Fingers crossed*

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Small CSX update.
X500 is in and out of GR in 10 minutes. Leaving right now. Single AC4400 leading.
Q327 is at Okemos
E945 is at Plymouth

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New update
X500 rolling east through Elmdale
Q327 at Ensel
"Remember, 4 mph is a couple, 5's a collision!"
http://flickriver.com/photos/conrail680 ... teresting/
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At 5:50 p.m.
Q327 and X500 meeting at Lake O
E945 at Howell
"Remember, 4 mph is a couple, 5's a collision!"
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Anyone see Q326 today?
Matt Marderosian was here at East Lansing all day today and he never saw nor heard Q326.
I never heard or saw anything on it either...

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N903 with a big mac and a GEVO leading where struggling to pull the train in Porter. The big mac sounded like something was not right in the engine

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