This train is about likely about to unload a large share of these coal gondolas at the MSU coal plant just past Harrison road. An interesting move being that the siding faces the same direction the train is now heading. Sometimes the second unit will be on the back of the train. If not then one of the locomotive disconnects, heads to Mt. Hope road, a mile and a third past the siding. The second track is there mostly for the coal plant. The Locomotive will then back down, on the siding, to where this train is now located. it will get back on the main, and then they move the full coal cars in. I also believe that they take away the empties. This can lead to very very long lines on Harrison Road.
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Auctually no. This train is an Empty train from Consumer's Energy's J.H. Campbell plant at West Olive, near Holland, MI, returning to the mines in West Virginia. The coal for MSU is delivered by the Lansing yard job Y102 on most weekdays.
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Thank-you for the correction. But I have seen them do the moves that I mentioned before. I was eating at the Mexican restaurant on the corner of Trowbridge and Harrison a couple years ago and noticed that the line kept getting longer and longer and longer. I stepped outside and saw the locomotive moving back up to the coal cars, and backing them into the sidings.
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