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By:Jeff Knorek
Dates:9/16/2014 - 9/16/2014
Album Info:From 1993 to 2002
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CSXT 5872
Title:  CSXT 5872
Description:  CSX train R327-23 (Chicago Barr-Detroit Rougemere) is hurtling eastbound at milepost CH 31.3 of the CSX Plymouth Subdivision after a fog has burned off on a lovely Sunday morning in late April 1993.. He is about to pass through the Hamlet of Salem. Within a few minutes hell be making a set out at Plymouth East Yard on the CSX Detroit subdivision.
Photo Date:  4/24/1993  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 10:56:39 AM
Location:  Salem, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 5872(B36-7)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
CSX 7005
Title:  CSX 7005
Description:  CSX train R334-10 (Grand Rapids-Walbridge) with an ex-Louisville & Nashville C30-7 up front is eastbound approachinng the Chubb Road crossing in Salem, Michigan at around 3:30 pm. This photo location was one of last resort for eastbounds as I could get to it at very short notice from my house, about a minute away.. My preference is to have some kind of physical structure or natural feature to provide definition, and evidence, of a given location, But to catch a C30-7 leader Ill take the featurless mainline. He would have beat me to the hamlet of Salem had I tried to catch him there. The Red Wing blackbirds songs filled the air on this afternoon, heralding the coming of Spring..
Photo Date:  3/10/1994  Upload Date: 2/1/2016 3:26:39 PM
Location:  Salem, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  322   Comments: 2
CSXT 2550
Title:  CSXT 2550
Description:  CSX Plymouth Yard Job Y102 is slowly moving westbound at mp CH 25.6 Sheldon Road on the long lead to North Yard, CSX Plymouth Subdivision (the single track mainline is in the foreground). He is pulling a string of Hi Cube boxcars out of Plymouth North Yard (on the CSX Saginaw Subdivision) that he'll be soon be setting out at Ford Heater (aka Vistion).
Photo Date:  5/10/1994  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 10:36:21 AM
Location:  Plymouth, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CSX 2550(GP38-2)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
CSXT 2108
Title:  CSXT 2108
Description:  What else can warm the heart on a soggy February day in Michigan? CSX Plymouth Local Y107 is northbound at Main Street, coming off of the Plymouth siding onto the single track main at milepost CC 82.4 of the CSX Saginaw Subdivision. The Main Street home signal is in the foreground, as is the lead to the Southwest Wye of Plymouth Diamond. The fabled Bodes Corned Beef House is behind me over my right shoulder.
Photo Date:  2/9/1995  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 9:58:22 AM
Location:  Plymouth, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  CSX 2108(GP38)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
SOO 6620, CP 4205
Title:  SOO 6620, CP 4205
Description:  CP runthrough R202 (Schiller Park-Montréal) is eastbound at milepost CH 32.3 on the CSX Plymouth Subdivision Seven Mile Road Curve, Salem MI, Time: 14:03, Date: 2/9/95. Back in the good old days of 1994 and 95, CP was running White SOO units and Alcos and a grimy rainbow of lease units; rarely was a consist all of one paint scheme. I was determined to record as many as I could, even in crummy light (Kodachrome 200 really came in handy that winter).
Photo Date:  2/9/1995  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 9:16:21 AM
Location:  Salem, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  SOO 6620(SD40-2) CP 4205(C424)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
CP 4226
Title:  CP 4226
Description:  CP run-through train Z203 (Montréal-Schiller Park) is westbound at milepost CH24.5 of the CSX Detroit Subdivision. He has entered the Plymouth Diamond Plant and is about to cross the CSX Saginaw Subdivision and enter the CSX Plymouth Subdivision, the rail in the foreground is the Southeast Wye of Plymouth Diamond. CP 4226 days are numbered and this was one of the last times that I caught a CP MLW unit in the lead.
Photo Date:  2/14/1995  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 10:11:09 AM
Location:  Plymouth, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  CP 4226(C424) HATX 514(GP40-2)
Views:  485   Comments: 0
CP 5847
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)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
CP 5847
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)
Views:  263   Comments: 2
CP 5680
Title:  CP 5680
Description:  The last rays of early spring sunlight are streaming through the trees as CP run-though X511 (Toronto Agincourt-Kansas City) is howling westbound at Run 8 ascending Salem Hill. He is blowing for the Currie Road crossing at miepost CH 31.5 of the CSX Plymouth Subdivision. The Spring Peepers are already making a racket by this time, temporarily shouted down by the passing of X511. After he has gone west the Peepers will be joined by the evening laughter of Robins.
Photo Date:  4/6/1996  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 11:52:19 AM
Location:  Salem, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5680(SD40-2)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
CP 762
Title:  CP 762
Description:  CSX train X505-08 (CP Trois-Rivières-Blue Island) is moving westbound from track #1 to track #2 at mp CH20 EAS Stark Road of the CSX Detroit SD on a steamy saturday morning, June 8th 1996 1115 hours. Track #2 becomes the single main that crosses Plymouth Diamond and becomes the XSX Plymouth SD. Track #1 becomes the Saginaw Wye (NE wye) of Plymouth Diamond. CP 762: EMD SD40-2 built as SOO 762 January 1973; frame# 76272-1. Became CP 762 March 1990. Presumed still in service. Source: Page 6 of "A Current & All Time CP Diesel Roster". http://www.mountainrailway.com/CPR%20Diesel%20Roster%204-2010.pdf
Photo Date:  6/8/1996  Upload Date: 9/8/2018 7:25:25 PM
Location:  Livonia, MI
Author:  Jeff Knorek
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  CP 762(SD40-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 0


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