Michigan Shortlines January 2014

[kenN]

From the looks of snowbanks at 84th St and 68th St crossings south of Grand Rapids late Wed afternoon, nothing has moved in or out of GR on the Grand Elk since the snow started on Sunday. Does anyone know what's happening?

[Standard Railfan]

GLC 399 long hood forward south out of Cadillac at 0905 with 13 sand hoppers and the empty centerbeam. As of 1545 they have not returned.

Just heard the GLC returning to town at 1855. Too dark to see them.

The reason for the delay in GLC's return to Cadillac was a SUV striking the consist around 1700 near Farwell. A link to news story with a few photos is below.

http://www.9and10news.com/story/2440682 ... are-county

[Saturnalia]

As of 16:30, Z151 was still sitting at Turner. Was sitting there from at least 15:30 or so.

[CAT345C]

JAIL heading north through mason with 6 boxcars, one with MQT reporting mark.

Boy I hope that went Manitee-Grand Rapids-Ensel and not to the NS. That is a pretty short multi railroad haul.

[AARR]

JAIL heading north through mason with 6 boxcars, one with MQT reporting mark.

Boy I hope that went Manitee-Grand Rapids-Ensel and not to the NS. That is a pretty short multi railroad haul.

I heard it goes MQT-CSX Grand Rapids to Lansing

[Saturnalia]

Sounds like the GRE is headed east from GR...based on horns anyway.

[EMDACESteve]

HESR 702 and 740 spotting coal loads and pulling empties. Power for the 702 will be the 3866, 3038. Power for the loads is the 2668, 2661.

[Patriot]

GRE went east this morning lite.

[Steamlogger]

MQT is switching vans at Turner St, in grand rapids. They only took the local cars. Three covered Hoppers, one bulkhead flat, and two rebar flat cars.
Power is SD 40 GP 38 SD 40.

[Patriot]

GRE has returned --- looked like six CHs from King, and two tankers and two CHs from Amway.

[Standard Railfan]

GLC is in Traverse City near the depot at 1422. I cannot see the consist or determine direction.

[csx801]

Michigan shore railroad was south through grand Haven at 12:45 with quite a train! Cf&E 3885 leading MMRR 2019 15 two bay sand hoppers (all CSX) 4 tanks (3 from Bayer 1 from Webb) and 25 boxes!
This makes for a grand total of 44 cars from Muskegon on tonight's train!
Reminds me of the days of CSX when this size train was a nightly affair

[AARR]

...and 25 boxes!

Were the box cars in storage? Did you catch the road names?

[SD80MAC]

MS will have a 39 car train going back north, big set off for them in Holland last night.

[EMDACESteve]

LSRC Z120 through Bridgeport w 65 grain. 5921, 3074, 3095 for power.

[csx801]

...and 25 boxes!

Were the box cars in storage? Did you catch the road names?

Most of the 25 boxes were the usual ex Conrail, UP, and a few other off brand high cubes that generally come off the MS. There were a few oddballs in there, I did notice a CSX high cube and a southern rail High Cube in the mix.
Michigan Shore usually keeps a good cut of These boxes up in north yard for Bay Logistics (Shape Co.) which ships 3 to 5 cars a night pretty regularly, however this time of year, Shape is rather slow. Last I checked north yard they had almost 3 tracks full of these Boxes. I would Guess someone needed them somewhere else so they pulled them. I have seen them do this before, but never with such large numbers.

[Evan]

Z144 11 is here at MP 8.8 of the LSRC Saginaw sub with a grain train. Power is the 1179, 1169, 1164. 89 same amount of cars as the first one was that Steve mentioned.

[Pie39]

GLC 399 long hood forward south out of Cadillac at 0905 with 13 sand hoppers and the empty centerbeam. As of 1545 they have not returned.

Just heard the GLC returning to town at 1855. Too dark to see them.

The reason for the delay in GLC's return to Cadillac was a SUV striking the consist around 1700 near Farwell. A link to news story with a few photos is below.

http://www.9and10news.com/story/2440682 ... are-county

Well what do ya know, it wasn't 385 this time! That calls for some celebration

[AANscaleRunner]

GLC 398 with 1 boxcar and 3 sand hoppers rolled into Selma yard at 1535 this afternoon. Took off for Yuma shortly after that.

Heard them leave towards Clare at around 0930 but no visual.

[EWRice]

...and 25 boxes!

Were the box cars in storage? Did you catch the road names?

Most of the 25 boxes were the usual ex Conrail, UP, and a few other off brand high cubes that generally come off the MS. There were a few oddballs in there, I did notice a CSX high cube and a southern rail High Cube in the mix.
Michigan Shore usually keeps a good cut of These boxes up in north yard for Bay Logistics (Shape Co.) which ships 3 to 5 cars a night pretty regularly, however this time of year, Shape is rather slow. Last I checked north yard they had almost 3 tracks full of these Boxes. I would Guess someone needed them somewhere else so they pulled them. I have seen them do this before, but never with such large numbers.

Last I heard they were loosing most if not all of Shape's buisness via Bay Logistics. Something about a transfer in manufacturing facilities and parts are going by truck instead. Too bad. It was nice to see a good mix of cars on MS trains.