TRRS 52: CSX Ballast Train in Grand Rapids! Rare!!
2,224 views · Published 10 September 2011 · 6:12 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: Thornapple River Rail Series · 2011 · Autos & Vehicles
Like the LSRC, the CSX was busy repairing and replacing track in Michigan in 2011. Here we see a southbound CSX ballast train near downtown Grand Rapids. This is former Pere Marquette trackage, which eventually ended up in CSX hands. 4 Miles north of here, after crossing the former Grand Trunk Western Railway, the line becomes Marquette Rail Property at Turner Street. After the ballast train, all ties were replaced, with the track crews moving on to the mainline between the Wyoming Yard and Porter Junction, in Chesterton Indiana. CSX SD-40-2 No. 8156 CSX AC4400CW #546 63 Herzog Ballast Hoppers 1 Chessie System Caboose, No. 903101 Filmed in Grand Rapids, MI on 7-30-11
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