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| Title: |
CP 5847 |
| Description: |
CP run-through train X512 (Kansas City-Toronto Agincourt) is eastbound descending Salem Hill, the ruling grade between Detroit and Chicago, through the hamlet of Salem, MI at milepost 31 of the CSX Plymouth Subdivision. CP trains were roughly 50% of traffic on the CSXT Plymouth Subdivision at this time. That would change, however, when CP elected to do business with NS instead on the mid 2000s. I lived just outside of the hamlet from 1994-2002, and so I was treated to all manner of CP and Soo power. As a side note, a pack of coyotes lived about 200 yards from me between my house and the CSX mainline. Come nightfall they would howl back at CP horns when blowing for the Currie Road crossing, but said nary a peep to CSX horns. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/1995 Upload Date: 9/16/2014 11:45:39 AM |
| Location: |
Salem, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5847(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
CP 5847 |
| Description: |
Train Symbol CP run through Z511 (Toronto Agincourt -Kansas City) is westbound at milepost CH 30.2 of the CSX Plymouth Subdivision at Salem, MI. Time: 15:30, Date: 2/17/96.: BFI's Salem Landfill, one of the largest in the country, is on the left. The building in the distance is BFI's MRF (Materials Recovery Facility), which collects glass, tin, aluminium, newsprint, and cardboard. In 1995 CSX constructed an industrial spur into the MRF, which ships out bundled cardboard in CSX Waffle Boxcars. This is one of the steepest grades on CSX in the State of Michigan and is the ruling grade between Plymouth and Grand Rapids. Until the advent of CSXT's AC4000CWs, this was a helper district (Plymouth-South Lyon). |
| Photo Date: |
2/17/1996 Upload Date: 9/16/2014 8:54:39 AM |
| Location: |
Salem, MI |
| Author: |
Jeff Knorek |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5847(SD40-2) |
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295 Comments: 2 |
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