Great Lakes Central Updates September 2017

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Dan Cluley wrote:Thought I posted this earlier.

Went through Cadillac about 11:15 am on Thursday.

393 was sitting by the old engine house, and 392 with some lumber cars was up at the north end of town.

Heard them return to Cadillac around 1820.

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Leaving Cadillac towards Clare at 1015.

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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1240.

GLC 396 leading
GLC 398

4 plastics hoppers
13 tie loads
1 coke hopper
1 plastics hopper
1 LPG tank

20 total

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Great Lakes Central south though mount pleasant 1600

GLC 398 leading
GLC 396

1 empty centerbeam
3 wood chip loads
11 tie empties
3 hoppers
4 tanks
1 feed hopper
2 open hoppers loaded with some type of stone, ash, or similar granulated / pelletized commodity???
5 coke empties

30 total

Does anybody know about the two hoppers? I missed the reporting marks. Based on their position in the train, they came from Cadillac

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392 and 393 returned to Cadillac at 1850 with 2 covered hoppers, 13 tie loads, 1 coke hopper, 1 covered hopper and 1 tank.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:392 and 393 returned to Cadillac at 1850 with 2 covered hoppers, 13 tie loads, 1 coke hopper, 1 covered hopper and 1 tank.

CSX801, not sure if AAScaleRunner saw your post as those two hoppers are in his video leaving Cadillac. One of the car reporting marks are HEQX 1218 and the other is HMJX 20104 if someone can trace them. Not sure when they came in , must have been a day AAScalerunner wasn't able to see incoming train.
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The cars are sitting at Ann Pere way-billed to Tarrant AL 6500 people, home of ...... ABC Coke. The cars are owned by FURX - First Union and leased by Danella Construction Corp.

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The coke transload in Cadillac used to also get coke from Towanda, NY. I don't know if they still do or not.
Raildudes dad wrote:The cars are sitting at Ann Pere way-billed to Tarrant AL 6500 people, home of ...... ABC Coke. The cars are owned by FURX - First Union and leased by Danella Construction Corp.
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Ballast regulator, big tamper thing, and a tie inserter all parked on the Summit City siding on the TC line.
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TC Man wrote:Ballast regulator, big tamper thing, and a tie inserter all parked on the Summit City siding on the TC line.
Good thing that they are doing track work. This is definitely needed on the TC branch.
EDIT: Where is Summit City siding?
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MiRailProductions wrote:
TC Man wrote:Ballast regulator, big tamper thing, and a tie inserter all parked on the Summit City siding on the TC line.
Good thing that they are doing track work. This is definitely needed on the TC branch.
EDIT: Where is Summit City siding?

Looks like rebuilding the M-113 crossing in Kingsley. Summit City is a couple miles south of Kingsley.
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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0940. No chance to see them.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0940. No chance to see them.
AANscaleRunner- any investigation as to those to open hoppers? :)
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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1238

GLC 397 leading
GLC 399

4 tanks
4 plastics hoppers
1 coke load
3 tie loads
5 cement hoppers
12 LPG Tanks

29 total

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Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant 1450

GLC 392 leading
GLC 393

4 wood chip hoppers
1 idler flat
1 pole flat
1 idler flat
1 pole flat
2 hoppers
5 tanks (4 from the northbound plus 1)
1 hopper

16 total

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397 and 399 into Cadillac at 1630 with 2 covered hoppers, 1 coke hopper, 3 tie loads, 5 cement hoppers and 12 tanks.

Looked like the 2 covered hoppers were the ones sitting at the McBain co-op yesterday.

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TC Man wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0940. No chance to see them.
AANscaleRunner- any investigation as to those to open hoppers? :)
I need to make a run through Selma Yard to see if there is any more in town.

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As for the two open top coal cars last week, they were loaded with coke fines from the unloading of the coke cars. once or twice a year they load the fines and ship them to a place that makes bercetes that look like charcoal and there shipped back and unloaded and shipped to the foundry.

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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1030.


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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1215

GLC 396 leading
GLC 398

3 tanks
3 plastics hoppers
9 cement hoppers
1 Lumber load
3 wood chip hoppers
1 LPG tank

20 total

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