Wow, they are running to Elkhart and back super early in the morning this week.
Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2023
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Always appreciated man! I’ll try to catch the GDLK 303 NB.Dowagiac Train Dude wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:23 amJust a heads up to Andy, J T, Tank and Z, I was just standing outside and could hear the horn of the Elk around the Plainwell area. I am guessing that it’s making its way up to GR.
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11:32 GDLK 303 rolling nb Wayland mp 81
WAMX 4209 and WAMX 4189 with 17 cars
WAMX 4209 and WAMX 4189 with 17 cars
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North through Byron Center at 12:10pm. Same power, didn't count the cars.Tankcar123 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:33 am11:32 GDLK 303 rolling nb Wayland mp 81
WAMX 4209 and WAMX 4189 with 17 cars
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Michigan Shore Z627-18 entering Grand Haven Northbound with MMRR 2170 leading @ 13:13
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Grand Elk south through Byron Center at 2:54pm. WAMX 4189, WAMX 4209 and 11ish cars. Two steel coil cars in there. Came through at about the busiest road usage part of the day - when the high schoolers let out and haul down Alles Dr.
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GRE working Fuller 08:02
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Grand Elk @ 8:25:27 spotted heading towards Elkhart Yard, IN on Elkhart railcam with WAMX #4189 + WAMX #4209 + 42 cars (majority was boxcars, 1 empty centerbeam, few tankers, couple of covered hoppers and couple coil cars)
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Z151-19 MQT #3391 @ 10:35 am reported southbound at Fuller Junction
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 1:55pm. wamx 4225 and 4206 leading approx 30 cars.
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GRE WB at the Grand River around 1:30. Looked like ~23 empties. Sounded like MQT NB about the same timeframe, no visual.
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Grand elk south through Byron Center at 5:28pm. Wamx 4206, 4225 and 3807 with 17 cars.
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Z627-20 os Grand Haven @ 12:30 MMRR 2170 leading MMRR 2019 Northbound
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Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2023
This mornings Grand Elk going southbound towards Elkhart hit a vehicle at the corner of Centre and Shaver Rd. There is a video in the news link below.
https://wwmt.com/news/local/rollover-cr ... lic-safety#
https://wwmt.com/news/local/rollover-cr ... lic-safety#
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 3:15pm. WAMX 4225(smoking it up pretty decent) and WAMX 4189 with 35ish cars. Of note, 2 very tall gons in there, with about 8-9 loaded NS shorter gons, loaded with scrap. Haven't seen loads of scrap through here in ages, if at all. NS 202212 one of the cars.
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DCON and ADBF ran today. No JAIL
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Grand elk south through Byron Center at 5:35pm. Wamx 4189 and wamx 4225 with 16 cars) boxcars, covered hoppers and tank cars.
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There’s a string of cars waiting on the Michigan line in Wayne likely destined for JAIL. Mostly covered coil cars and covered hoppers with a few boxcars mixed in.
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Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - January 2023
I saw those too and wondered what their destination was. JAIL was not one of the places I thought of though. Thanks for the info.
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Great. It’ll take NS a couple of days to forward them to Jackson and then 24-36 additional hours for them to process the cars in the system to interchange to ADBF. That’s a big reason why they quit going down on Sunday nights.AARR wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:00 pmI saw those too and wondered what their destination was. JAIL was not one of the places I thought of though. Thanks for the info.