2007 Livonia, Avon & Lakeville RR Movements

Tell us what, where & when you saw it on the LA&L RR?

Train #1 northbound for 2007! Into Avon this morning shortly after 9 am with 11 cars. Engines were WNYP #432 and LAL #420, this will make the southbound trip with #420 running long nose first. On the north trip there was switching done in Avon.

Greg

1-2-07 before 4pm the southbound rolled into Avon. A large shuffling was done in the yard before the train went on to Lakeville with 22 cars.

1-4-07 Northh into Avon before 9 am with #432 leading #420. Stopped and added six cars to make the train 17 cars long on the northbound trip.

1/4/07 - About 1pm reverse move into Genesee Junction on the RSR. Couldnt get a car count ... but easily 10+.

1-8-07 North into Avon with three engines. Lead by #432 with #420 and #425 is a consist of 31 cars. Crew stopped for switching in Avon before 9:30 am. Left Howletts Farms northbound before 11am.

Wnyp 432 leading lal 420 and 425 are sitting right behind pickle nicks right now. It looks like its shaping up to be a long day with the train destine for the junction still. Now it has departed and is headed for genesee junction with quite a train... If you're out and about later, LAL may have good nighttime shots for u later

Coming to you LIVE, trackside at the intersection of scottsville rd and the west shore...


The trio are currently switching at genesee junction after making a visit to the brooks ave yard... If you're in the area, you better get out soon! There should be good photo ops trackside tonight!

So its 615pm.. And they're still switching at genesee. Lutherkb and I presume they're preparing the rail train along with the normal freight train

Luther Brefo, John Sommer, and myself were railfanning the LAL today
(monday 1/8), and chased it southbound, after a 6:30pm (approximate)
departure from Genesee Junction. Upon spotting it at Bailey road, we
proceeded to Avon, only to find that it had not arrived after 30 or
so minutes. We decided to check the museum, and found LAL 425, 420
and WNYP 432 outlawed at the museum. If you're reading your favorite forum tonight (this one, duh ), get to the museum, as this may be your one and only chance to photograph the units at the museum in a idle environment.

regards,

deafmike

1/10/07 laying rail northward from Avon to Meadowood Rd, Rush, in Monroe county. Then moved north of Golah rd. and dropped more. They are heading north towards Henrietta. 2PM

1/11/07 Before 9am this morning a very large (lost count) northbound came into Avon. They stopped for switching here locally. Two engines as the power are #420 and #425.

Large would make sense since they did not do their work yesterday, so they have to pick up three days' worth of drops by Q632?

1/15/07 shortly after 9 this morning the Northbound train came into Avon slowly. A stop to pickup cars from the Industrial spur was done, taking the entire train onto the line for the hookup. The cars were stretched halfway to Kraft from Main St.. Ice conditions probably kept them from the standard hillside coupling of the train. I didnt get the car count but it wasnt very long maybe 10-15 cars into Avon.

1/15/07 - 420 and 425 were chased from Avon to Genesee Junction. They stopped to do switching in Avon, and then switched Howlett Farms, only picking up cars with no dropoffs. Then they proceeded to ?Mark curve, and had lunch. Shortly after, they were caught at Genesee Junction, with 44 cars. Quite a sight seeing them breaking ice and revving up at the same time. 420 bounced to and fro quite a bit, making for almost a nerve wracking sight.