Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

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Pixl wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:And back into Cadillac at 1630.
Do you know if the North run was to TC or toward Kalkaska?

Kalkaska and Elmira. There was a long string of empty cement hoppers and tanks behind Family Video last night.

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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1010.

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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1320
Beacon empty**

GLC 397 leading
GLC 399

5 plastics hoppers
3 coke hoppers
12 loaded tie gondolas
6 wood chip hoppers
4 LPG tanks
1 lumber load
1 Empty NS Gondola

32 total

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Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1525

GLC 399 leading
GLC 397

1 plastics hopper
1 wood chip hopper
2 tanks
1 empty centerbeam
5 plastics hoppers
9 empty tie gondolas
1 feed hopper
13 cement hoppers
4 LPG tanks

37 total

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Great Lakes Central back north through Mount Pleasant at 2300.

GLC 397 leading 8 grain hoppers.

I will go chase now.

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397 running Long hood forward headed back south through Mount Pleasant at 00:25 with 12 grain hoppers.

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csx801 wrote:Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1320
Beacon empty**

GLC 397 leading
GLC 399

5 plastics hoppers
3 coke hoppers
12 loaded tie gondolas
6 wood chip hoppers
4 LPG tanks
1 lumber load
1 Empty NS Gondola

32 total

Surprised nobody commented on the Beacon empty for this week delivery! Thanks for the report!
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Left Cadillac towards Clare at 0915 with 1 covered hopper, 4 wood chip hoppers and 6 tie loads.

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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1220

GLC 397 Leading
GLC 399

4 plastics hoppers
2 tanks
3 hoppers
2 wood chip hoppers
10 tie loads
3 cement hoppers
3 LPG tanks
1 hopper
8 LPG tanks

36 total

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Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1400

GLC 399 leading
GLC 397

1 hopper
2 woodchip loads
7 empty tie gondolas
3 empty pole flats

13 total

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Heard them return to Cadillac at 1550. No chance to see them.

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Leaving Cadillac towards Clare at 0945. In no position to see them.

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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1245

GLC 397 leading
GLC 399

1 tank car
1 boxcar
7 plastics hoppers
21 grain hoppers
3 tie loads
7 LPG tanks

40 total

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Returned to Cadillac at 1645.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1645.

Sounds like we have a center beam load and a box car load for Amerhart and an empty gondola for Beacon for a Traverse City run....
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TC Man wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1645.

Sounds like we have a center beam load and a box car load for Amerhart and an empty gondola for Beacon for a Traverse City run....
Kewl!!

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Pixl wrote:
TC Man wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1645.

Sounds like we have a center beam load and a box car load for Amerhart and an empty gondola for Beacon for a Traverse City run....
Kewl!!
Doesn't look like the boxcar made it into Caddy.
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Clare or Marion perhaps?
KC wrote:Doesn't look like the boxcar made it into Caddy.
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I never saw the southbound today, so I can't confirm. Based on where the boxcar was blocked, it would probably have returned south with the Owosso crew. The car was before the Clare cut. Usually, any cars in front of the Clare cut will turn back south.

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Might have been a pick up from the bean plant in Ithaca. They ship an occasional box car.
csx801 wrote:I never saw the southbound today, so I can't confirm. Based on where the boxcar was blocked, it would probably have returned south with the Owosso crew. The car was before the Clare cut. Usually, any cars in front of the Clare cut will turn back south.
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