Eastern Railroad Discussion > Lansing Michigan rail traffic.????

Looking for information on Lansing MI, toward Grand Rapids.

Thanks, Bob



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/20 14:09 by robj.

Not much. Q326/Q327, a road local, and these days that's about it, because all the West Olive coal seems to come up from Chicago.

Supposedly CSX plans to route some more trains via GRR but to my knowledge it hasn't happened yet.

Q326/327 are Grand Rapids-Chicago Barr yard trains.  However CSX recently added two new trains between GR and Detroit Rougemere: D706 eastbound MWF and D705 westbound TTS.  These seem to be pretty big trains and handle large setouts and pickups at Lansing's Ensel yard.  Theoretically they are daytime trains but HOS issues tend to upset this.

Ensel is also the base for two locals.  D707 works west overnight to GR and D708 works east to Howell in the afternoon.  D708's major work is big blocks of interchange off D705/706 to the Great Lakes Central at their Ann Pere crossing east of Howell.

There are also occasional grain trains out of Toledo to elevators at Grand Ledge and Williamston.        



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/20 19:43 by CO5232.

CO5232 Wrote:
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> Q326/327 are Grand Rapids-Chicago Barr yard
> trains.  However CSX recently added two new
> trains between GR and Detroit Rougemere: D706
> eastbound MWF and D705 westbound TTS.  These seem
> to be pretty big trains and handle large setouts
> and pickups at Lansing's Ensel yard. 
> Theoretically they are daytime trains but HOS
> issues tend to upset this.
>
> Ensel is also the base for two locals.  D707
> works west overnight to GR and D708 works east to
> Howell in the afternoon.  D708's major work is
> big blocks of interchange off D705/706 to the
> Great Lakes Central at their Ann Pere crossing
> east of Howell.
>
> There are also occasional grain trains out of
> Toledo to elevators at Grand Ledge and
> Williamston. 

I had forgotten that Q326/Q327 no longer went east of Grand Rapids.

The elevators, though, are both east of Lansing and their trains arrive/depart from/to the east, which is why I didn't mention the grain trains.
 

toledopatch Wrote:
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> >
> > There are also occasional grain trains out of
> > Toledo to elevators at Grand Ledge and
> > Williamston. 
>
> I had forgotten that Q326/Q327 no longer went east
> of Grand Rapids.
>
> The elevators, though, are both east of Lansing
> and their trains arrive/depart from/to the east,
> which is why I didn't mention the grain trains.

The elevator at Grand Ledge is certainly west of Lansing.

DirtyShirt Wrote:
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> The elevator at Grand Ledge is certainly west of
> Lansing.

Of course you're right. It's been a while since I've done anything up there, sigh.
 

toledopatch Wrote:
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I had forgotten that Q326/Q327 no longer went east
> of Grand Rapids.>

You need to get to Michigan more often, Toledopatch,      Q326 & Q327 has not run east of Grand Rapids in nearly ten years.     Jan. 23, 2011 was the last day for both. 

Are any of the former Pere Marquette searchlight signals still in existence up there?

Jim