CN Train Location Updates - November 2023

[KC8RBK]

365 by 205 at 0918-3m behind schedule

Also, WB B731 with CN 3019/CN 3096/CN 3077/CN 2932/CN 3306 departed Joffre, QC at 17:25 - approx 24 hours from now it’ll be in MI.

Do you know what arrangement the power is in?

5764/2266 leading 116 by 205 at 1024. Only about a half dozen wells on the back today. Sounds like track work going on around 219 via some radio traffic I'm hearing

[SD80MAC]

Q116 east through Trowbridge at 11:02.

Another freight right behind Q116 with CN 2910 and CSXT 3040, clear Trowbridge eastbound at 11:18.

[LansingRailFan]

M385 in PH with CN 5604/CN 5720

[Manistique]

Train 251 with five locomotives, including CN GP40-2L 9566 (I think that was the number) as the fifth, flying past MP 22.5 at 1 pm.

[AARR]

South end of Pontiac a northbound cleared about 15 minutes ago and a southbound led by CN EMD GE 40 empty Tri levels, 40 empty bilevels and 15 Intermodals.

[bluewonderrails]

Train 251 with five locomotives, including CN GP40-2L 9566 (I think that was the number) as the fifth, flying past MP 22.5 at 1 pm.

Yep. Started across Fort St. at 10:42

CN quintet #2339 + #2760 (rf) + #3863 + #2944 (rf) + #9566

[LansingRailFan]

WB A491 with CN 8003/UP 5476 thru Trowbridge past all the foam at 14:24. Very late today. UP 5476 led the P276 into Sarnia.

[KC8RBK]

WB manifest with CN 8003/UP 5476 thru Trowbridge past all the foam at 14:24

By 205 at 1500. There was a loaded lake state bulkhead flatcar near the head end. It also looked like some cars of untreated ties

[bluewonderrails]

E251 west clear mp225 East Lansing at 15:12. CN quintet #2339 + #2760 (rf) + #3863 + #2944 (rf) + #9566

[Manistique]

I have not seen 116 yet today, though it is reported sitting in Pontiac Yard all afternoon. Maybe recrewing? Or combining it with tonight's 508? Maybe it will follow Amtrak 355 down the Hill in an hour or so? Precision Railroading.

[GTW6401]

I have not seen 116 yet today, though it is reported sitting in Pontiac Yard all afternoon. Maybe recrewing? Or combining it with tonight's 508? Maybe it will follow Amtrak 355 down the Hill in an hour or so? Precision Railroading.

It ran about four hours ago. Never stopped in Pontiac and a friend of mine saw it in Royal Oak.

[Manistique]

A short SB went past MP 22.5 that I didn't see around 6:20 pm. Maybe a 513?

And around 6:30 pm 507 went past.

I have not seen 116 yet today, though it is reported sitting in Pontiac Yard all afternoon. Maybe recrewing? Or combining it with tonight's 508? Maybe it will follow Amtrak 355 down the Hill in an hour or so? Precision Railroading.

It ran about four hours ago. Never stopped in Pontiac and a friend of mine saw it in Royal Oak.

Now that I think of it, I did run a quick errand around that time and probably missed it. Funny but I passed the tracks twice too.
Thanks.

[Dan Cluley]

...WB B731 with CN 3019/CN 3096/CN 3077/CN 2932/CN 3306 departed Joffre, QC at 17:25 - approx 24 hours from now it’ll be in MI.

Through East Lansing at 19:57

3019 3077 & 2932 on the head end

3306 on the rear, no sign of 3096

[Manistique]

NB 513 lite went past MP 22.5 around 7:45 pm

And a few minutes later 508 went past.

That should be it for today on the South Holly except the last two Amtraks later.

[Dan Cluley]

Amtrak 364 out of East Lansing at 21:02

500 by at 21:08

CN 3894 3107

[Manistique]

SB 515 with 5423 past MP 22.5 at 7:33 am. It had five empty gondolas for DCON, one boxcar and maybe a tank and the rest was loaded centerbeams today. Medium-sized train.

[LansingRailFan]

G825 with CN 2867/CP 8535 arrived in Durand light power. The 107 car train from HESR is on the North track.

18:53 - WB G825 with CN 2867/CP 8535 is at Shaftsburg. They went to the end of Durand Yard and shoved all the way back to the Flint Sub using the PH Wye before proceeding west. 107 loaded hoppers from Gavillon in Saginaw via the HESR.

Clear Trowbridge at 19:05

This G825 out of Durand was resymbolled as G886 in BC. Same CN 2867/CP 8535 for power.

It departed Greenwood, Mississippi at 06:00 as it heads south to New Orleans.

[LansingRailFan]

08:20 - EB P623 91 with CN 3309 solo leading 3 cars is at MP 50 of the South Bend Sub. This is the CN Business Train and it is headed to Toronto.

[LansingRailFan]

09:15 - Jail trying to get across at cedar and 116 looking to get through. Active work zone at cedar. Presidential train set to leave the creek around 1030 per desk 8 - via Jason/KC8RBK

09:32 - EB Q116 with CN 8837/CN 2312 proceeds slowly across S. Washington Avenue in Downtown Lansing.

[LansingRailFan]

Work beginning at the EL Multimodal station on the passenger/foamer platform

They are going to be raising the platform up to the height of the cars. There’s also some rail laid down as it looks like CN has some much needed trackwork planned for M2 as well.

There is a lot of trackwork taking place in Lansing from east of Hope thru Trowbridge right now.