Great Lakes Central Updates April 2017

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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Pixl wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:395 warming up outside engine house at 0730.
I saw 395 pulling two empty centerbeams crossing Holiday rd. at 1210. They were coming from Williamsburg headed toward the train station in TC.
MOW pickup was sitting on the side of the road watching the signals then he went into town without stopping at any of the other crossings.


Wonder if they took anything north with them? I didn't see any lumber in town this morning unless it was well hidden. Spent the morning at the dentist so didn't even get to hear them leave.

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Pixl wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:395 warming up outside engine house at 0730.
I saw 395 pulling two empty centerbeams crossing Holiday rd. at 1210. They were coming from Williamsburg headed toward the train station in TC.
MOW pickup was sitting on the side of the road watching the signals then he went into town without stopping at any of the other crossings.

They brought up the loaded center beam that was sitting by the engine house last night.
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AANscaleRunner wrote:
Pixl wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:395 warming up outside engine house at 0730.
I saw 395 pulling two empty centerbeams crossing Holiday rd. at 1210. They were coming from Williamsburg headed toward the train station in TC.
At this time, all the rest of the other GP38s were heading south to Osmer with a grain load. At 4:38pm, they were over onto CSX at Howell picking up 38 cars off the Howell CSX passing siding.
397-399-385-398-396 in that order when they went west by me, and later going back north to Owosso. Each of the two GP38s on each end were back to back.

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392 and 395 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0915 with 2 empty center beams, 8 tie loads and 4 tanks.

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392 arrived Clare at 12:00. The train from Owosso arrived 12:30 with 397 and 399. They are swapping trains still at 12:45.
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Back into Cadillac at 1500 with 1 coke hopper, 1 pole load, 1 wood chip hopper, 1 loaded centerbeam, 4 cement hoppers and 15 tanks.

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GLC has been really good at evading me this week. I did hear them come back south through Mount Pleasant around 1:30 this afternoon though

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392 and 395 left Cadillac towards Clare at 0920 with 1 pole load, 5 tie loads and 4 wood chip hoppers.

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Returned to Cadillac at 1515 but was in no position to see them.

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Great Lakes Central North through Mount Pleasant 7:50pm

GLC 397 Leading
GLC 399

3 plastics
17 tie loads
7 LPG tanks

27 total for this evening edition of GLC Railroad

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Great Lakes Central back south through Mount Pleasant 10:17pm

GLC 399 leading
GLC 397

7 Plastics hoppers
2 wood chip loads
4 empty tie gons
3 plastics hoppers

16 total

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392 and 395 left Cadillac towards Clare at 0850 with nothing behind them.

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Does anyone here know if GLC will operate this Good Friday?
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395 and 392 return to Cadillac at 1245 with 13 tie loads, 1 wood chip hopper, 3 tie loads and 7 tanks.

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Returning to Cadillac from the north at 1700.

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Great Lakes Central rolling north through Mt. Pleasant at 8:39pm

GLC 397
GLC 399

5 plastics hopper
1 feed hopper
1 empty centerbeam
1 loaded pole flat
1 plastics hopper
5 woodchip hoppers

14 total

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GLC back south through the small college town known not so much for its mountainous terrain as it is for its pleasant disposition (Mt P) 11:00pm

GLC 399
GLC 397

3 plastics

3 total

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Hopefully they're running tomorrow, my plan is to show up bright and early in Owosso and go from there.
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392 and 395 left Cadillac towards Clare at 1120 with 2 covered hoppers, 6 tie loads, 4 tanks, 7 cement hoppers and 1 covered hopper.

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395 and 392 return to Cadillac at 1600 with 1 covered hopper, 2 tanks, 1 empty centerbeam, 1 pole load, 1 covered hopper and 5 wood chip hoppers.

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