Spring in South Lyon 2006

Q326-10 regains speed after going into emergency a mile away. Really sucks, all the trains are eastbounds and all come during the sunset :(

Bah Horrible shot smeared lens. Q335 there was also a BNSF Sliver Bonnet SD70M in the Red Bonnet scheme I think.

Q327-19 at Reese Street

Q326-8 near 12 mile

Short Q326-1 1041 feet long, 74 axles.

Q335-17 wizzing by a Dead FURX

Don't see this every day HLCX long hood forward on CSX after the lead FURx 3047 took a dump.

A CSX Q Train heading into the west end switch of the S. Lyon siding.

Bad Lightin. Stoped on Q326-19 wating for Q327-19

Bad lighting in the siding.

12 Mile Road, some Q train didn't have the scanner on

4000+ feet of emtpy CSX grain cars under the helm of two SD40-2s barely put a load on these workhores coming out of the S. Lyon Siding.

Pulling into the South Lyon Siding late afternoon for Q326-25

Q326-25, I can see the front from here, 642 feet long, compared to the empty grain that was 4442 feet long in the siding.

Q327-1's conductor hikes to the loco, after inspecting a passing Q326-1 at the West End.

Two Really Short Q-Trains meet at the West end.

74 axles, 1041 train length, leaving the siding. All the junk was from a major flood in 2003 that did some damage in the Detroit Suburbs, I lost my Model railroad as a result.

K357-5 westbound at 10 mile road in South Lyon.

Are those 4-bay coal hoppers in NYC and CSX paint? Why I think it is WTF kind of train is this. Symbol K351-6 (empty coke train)

Coke Cars fly by the state of the art station at South Lyon

NYC and CSX 4-bays on K351-6 (empty Coke for Detroit) at Reese Street

K351-6 leaving town after they waited for Q323-6 to clear Salem 6 miles down the line.

733 coming out of the hole in South Lyon.

Pulling 4000 feet of empty ESCX bethgons back to West Virginia at Reese Street

East Bound at 12 mile

A rare sight on the Plymouth Sub, a meet, with pure CSX power, and both trains are Extras!

Q335 coming up to East South Lyon

No time to sharpen or edit the photo, Q335 at Ten Mile

Going Away at 10 mile road

A Empty Coal train in South Lyon waiting for a signal man to finnish up

EOM

This is what happens when railroads rent other power

FURX 3047 driving to the team track. Some how that small track in the foregrkund is going to hold that large engine

Waiting for a CSX Road Master to unlock the team track switch.

Heading to Team Track

Hey it has ditch lights on the back.

Appoarching 10 Mile Road on the CSX Q326-15

This is why railroads should use their own power. The leader FURX 3047 took a dump and is behind the train on a team track.

HLCX 6080 long hood forward on CSX Q326-15 after the leader took a dive. East End South Lyon

Q335-17 flying over Reese Street in South Lyon. That is a turn of the Century Mill in the background that was onced served by the GTW, and C&O until the 1980s when GTW pulled out. It is still used today by a True Value Hardware Store.

Q335-17 coming into South Lyon

FUR 3047 (FURX) and Q335-17

Q335-17 rounding the curve at South Lyon

The front end of Q335-17 going away from FURX 3047 which took a dump three days ago and is still there.

Two Rent-A-Wrecks flying by the old Turn of the Century Mill with CSX Q327-21

Q335-21 coming up on a dead FURX 3047.