TRRS 52: CSX Ballast Train in Grand Rapids! Rare!!

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