Great Lakes Central Updates February 2017

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Heard them move from Selma Yard to North yard at 0910. Not 100% sure but sounded like northbound out of Cadillac at 0920.

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GLC is in Traverse City, and the self propelled plow thing is behind it.
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Today the GLC Owosso train will meet the Cadillac train in Clare. Im interested to know what they bring back to cadillac and if that means a northbound on Friday.

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397 and 393 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1010 with 2 coke or wood chip hoppers, 1 feed hopper, 2 tanks, 9 tie loads and 9 tanks. Snowing and blowing up here, couldn't get a good read on the first 2 hoppers.

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FYI. That boxcar did come up to Traverse City as I'm told by my wife that train had a box car going to Williamsburg. She said they saw it later with a "flat trailer with tall ends and a hole filled wall going lengthwise". Ummm, thinking that's a center beam. Odd that in the train to Clare reported by AANSCALERUNNER, it wasn't in the consist. Sorry about the all caps there...
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GLC South through Mount Pleasant 2:12pm

GLC 397
GLC 393

1 hopper (3 bay, NOKL reporting marks)
3 feed hoppers
2 tanks
1 empty centerbeam
4 loaded chip hoppers
7 tie gons
1 tank
8 LPG tanks

27 total

I heard them go north around 11:30 but I did not get a visual on them.

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395 and 399 into Cadillac at 1615 with 3 tanks, 2 boxcars (COER 150782 ? and COER 171499), 6 wood chip hoppers, 1 tie load, 1 coke hopper, 2 tie loads and 21 lp tanks.

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Leaving Cadillac towards Clare at 0930.


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Wonder where those box cars are going?? Came up from the Clare meet and headed right back down?
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COER 171499 moved from industry to the yard Clare 1200, COER 150382 arrived Marion at 11:00 both on 2/3/17. They are "equipped' cars, old International Bridge and Terminal cars, paper service I'm assuming. Both are loads. Crab Orchard and Egyptian RR

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The two places I know of that use box cars are the bean plant in Ithaca and the lumber yard in Bates.
TC Man wrote:Wonder where those box cars are going?? Came up from the Clare meet and headed right back down?
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Returned to Cadillac at 1235. Did more switching in Selma them moved to the north side.

In McBain this afternoon: 3 covered hoppers at the Co-op, 2 loaded wood chip hoppers, 6 empty wood chip hoppers, 2 empty tie gons and looked like 7 full tie hoppers/gons on the Viking spur. Didn't see anything sitting at Hydralake.

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AARR wrote:The two places I know of that use box cars are the bean plant in Ithaca and the lumber yard in Bates.
TC Man wrote:Wonder where those box cars are going?? Came up from the Clare meet and headed right back down?
Yep I knew that, however AAScaleRunner reported these 2 cars on the inbound train to Cadillac yesterday, and then today they head right back south. The two GLC trains interchanged in Clare yesterday, so it they were for Ithaca, I doubt the Owosso-Clare crew would have given the cars to the Cadillac-Clare crew just to get them back the next day? Based on Raildude's Dad ("COER 171499 moved from industry to the yard Clare 1200, COER 150382 arrived Marion at 11:00 both on 2/3/17. They are "equipped' cars, old International Bridge and Terminal cars, paper service I'm assuming. Both are loads. Crab Orchard and Egyptian RR"), is there a new shipper around Clare or Marion?
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These cars had the same reporting mark as the single Box that went north on Wednesday. I have not yet seen it come south yet. Ive been watching the line today, and have not seen any moves through the Mount Pleasant area.

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I didn't mean to say they are currently in paper service, just they used to be as IBT cars. And it was just an educated guess.

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Maybe they were inbound lumber for Letherer in Clare?
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AARR wrote:The two places I know of that use box cars are the bean plant in Ithaca and the lumber yard in Bates.
TC Man wrote:Wonder where those box cars are going?? Came up from the Clare meet and headed right back down?
Yep I knew that, however AAScaleRunner reported these 2 cars on the inbound train to Cadillac yesterday, and then today they head right back south. The two GLC trains interchanged in Clare yesterday, so it they were for Ithaca, I doubt the Owosso-Clare crew would have given the cars to the Cadillac-Clare crew just to get them back the next day? Based on Raildude's Dad ("COER 171499 moved from industry to the yard Clare 1200, COER 150382 arrived Marion at 11:00 both on 2/3/17. They are "equipped' cars, old International Bridge and Terminal cars, paper service I'm assuming. Both are loads. Crab Orchard and Egyptian RR"), is there a new shipper around Clare or Marion?
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Saw those green box cars on the siding in Marion at M-66. Looks like Morgan Composting Dairy Doo was loading from their Marion warehouse right there.

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ramblerdan wrote:Saw those green box cars on the siding in Marion at M-66. Looks like Morgan Composting Dairy Doo was loading from their Marion warehouse right there.
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84 car pot ash train, picked up on CSX at Howell will be heading north towards Owosso prior to noon on Monday. GLC 393 leading, 385,398,390 trailing. First three facing north.

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In North Yard of Cadillac at 1545. Didn't hear them at all today. May have went north.

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