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Welcome Aboard the CHESSIE CHAPTER!
Always Current, Always on Track!  Site Last Updated: May 13th, '08! Next stop: Spring!  Welcome Aboard the Chessie Chapter, an online resource with a wide spectrum of information about CSX and predecessors throughout Michigan. First and foremost, we hope you'll take a moment to join this website; it's free and as easy as clicking "Join Now" on the left column. Recent news, website updates, and a history of the Chessie Chapter are available in Direct From the Editors. Additional news posts and trip reports can be found on the Rail Bulletin, our message board. The Rail Bulletin is also our online archives, keeping old news available to you dating as far back as 2001. We continue to bring you some of the best CSX roster and scenic photos on the web, now counting to nearly 475 images of locomotives and cabooses around Michigan and the CSX system. CSXT Michigan Subdivisons has been updated with the latest train symbols, routes, and operating times for trains rolling on the four subdivisions making up the old Pere Marquette high iron across the state. Also recently updated, CSX Predecessors has the latest reports of the TWO remaining predecessors system-wide. We also hope you'll take a moment to click on Chessies Road, an excellent resource for railfanning the Plymouth, MI CSX diamond and surrounding area. We continue to keep pace with the ongoing track maintenance and signal upgrades around the state, and suggest that photographers get their shots of C&O era searchlight signals now before they all disappear. Please take a look around at the ongoing changes we've made, in the spirit of C&O For Progress! Feel free to drop us a line at the email below to let us know what you think. Preventing train accidents is a big deal! SAFETY FIRST!
The Editors Take a SAFETY SECOND and THINK! Copyright 2001-2008 Chessie Chapter |
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B&O Bay Window #903855
In addition to the B&O 175th Anniversary caboose, #904000, CSX also operates another Baltimore and Ohio painted bay window caboose on a regular schedule: #903855. This caboose normally ...
Nate
05-13-08
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Rail Train back in Michigan
After spending the weekend on track 43 in Grand Rapids' Wyoming Yard, the rail train began laying more rail late Monday (April 14) morning. Using the symbol Y171-14 (yard job symbol because...
Nate
04-17-08
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Share a legacy-Rouge mere telegraph [Top...
2nd trick operator: Years between 1963-1969: The 2nd trick operator started his shift at 3:55pm-11:55pm. The bulk of the 2nd shift train traffic moved thro...
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04-16-08
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Grand Rapids CC Spring Kickoff!
Yesterday (April 14th) was a great day to railfan up in Grand Rapids on the Grand Rapids Terminal Subdivision. It was also great to see several other railfans out and abou...
Nate
04-16-08
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