Around 9:30PM they wee in Plainwell picking up the Otsego cars.
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 1:38pm. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4209, and 15 cars. Tank cars, boxcars, and covered hoppers.
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Grand Elk must have either made a run up from Kalamazoo, or ran light from Grand Rapids. They were picking up the Otsego cars about 6:30 when we went to walk the dogs. I didn't see any other cars waiting on the main. I heard the usual horns when they crossed Broad Street and M-89 but I don't believe they ever went back north of M-89. No sign of them when re recrossed the tracks about 5 minutes later. Nothing on the EOT frequency.
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GRE westbound through Ada at 11:08. Looked to be slowing to work Amway.
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Grand Elk north through Byron Center at 11:43am. WAMX 4124, WAMX 4209, and 19 cars.
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Looking north from Ann St the last couple days - it looks like the sand transload has been removed except for the yellow structure for the hooking on a safety harness for working on on the top of hoppers.
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MS south at Grand Haven 13:55. 2170 leading 2019 light power
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Doesn’t surprise me. The last time there were sand hoppers there, they were in storage. I don’t think they’ve actually transloaded sand there for the last 5 years.Raildudes dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 1:51 pmLooking north from Ann St the last couple days - it looks like the sand transload has been removed except for the yellow structure for the hooking on a safety harness for working on on the top of hoppers.
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I believe Grand Elk went south between 2-4pm. I didn’t hear any train horns from 4 to 9pm. Even went trackside at 6-7:30pm earlier today.
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CSX Y297 around 6:00pm pulled 14 hoppers and one ADMX tank south from the Ann St yard. Not many loads were left for GRE Friday. The ADMX tank looked new, assuming from Amway.
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Hearing a brake test on the Radio at 08:35. Must be Michigan Shore, the crew reminiscing about MMRR 24
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Did they ever get any sand traffic?
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Marquette Rail Z151-31 @ 10:44 copied an EC1 at CGE 3.6 Turner St with BPRR #3345 leader + 2/3 SD40s & ?? cars
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They were doing quite a lot of sand up there 2015-2017 or so.AARR wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 10:12 amDid they ever get any sand traffic?Raildudes dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 1:51 pmLooking north from Ann St the last couple days - it looks like the sand transload has been removed except for the yellow structure for the hooking on a safety harness for working on on the top of hoppers.
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Thank you. Is the sand being transloaded elsewhere or has it stopped?
SD80MAC wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 10:56 amThey were doing quite a lot of sand up there 2015-2017 or so.AARR wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 10:12 amDid they ever get any sand traffic?Raildudes dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 1:51 pmLooking north from Ann St the last couple days - it looks like the sand transload has been removed except for the yellow structure for the hooking on a safety harness for working on on the top of hoppers.
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I don't know if any sand is being shipped out of Michigan anymore for fracing. None on the GDLK anywhere that I'm aware of. MS still handles some sand occasionally (for casting?). I don't think MQT handles any anymore either. For a while around 2014-2015, CSX was handling so much sand from MS, MQT, and GDLK that there was talk of running unit sand trains!
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13:30 - HESSER 702 inbound to Durand with 3414/3484
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Grand Elk 303 @ 3:11pm distance horns heard in Wyoming, MI, presumably NB
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Sitting on my deck near 28th and Burlingame I can hear them too.
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14:23 - HESSER 701 outbound from Durand over and out