The Steel Gang has the eastward track and all trains are using the westward track between Tipton and Black Buttes. Onboard UP 9496, ANPSE-22, we are second of six westbounds for which a pack of e... (more)

Rare, even more rare, and now non-existent: UP on CSX, a westbound stone train entering Grand Rapids, and Woot Woot riding along the CSX payroll. Seen near 32nd St east side of Grand Rapids.

With nearly 60 cars loaded with stone from Toledo, 9496 belches out exhaust as it works hard to pull the train up the slight grade at Fox siding.