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Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:13 pm
by AANscaleRunner
399, 397 and 396 left Cadillac for Clare at 0950 with 2 wood chip hoppers and 12 tie loads.

397 and 399 returned at 1730 with 1 tank, 3 tie loads, 3 cement hoppers, 1 covered hopper, 7 tanks, 1 loaded centerbeam and 11 tanks.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:47 pm
by MiRailProductions
AANscaleRunner wrote:399, 397 and 396 left Cadillac for Clare at 0950 with 2 wood chip hoppers and 12 tie loads.

397 and 399 returned at 1730 with 1 tank, 3 tie loads, 3 cement hoppers, 1 covered hopper, 7 tanks, 1 loaded centerbeam and 11 tanks.
When did 396 come up?

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:43 am
by AANscaleRunner
MiRailProductions wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:399, 397 and 396 left Cadillac for Clare at 0950 with 2 wood chip hoppers and 12 tie loads.

397 and 399 returned at 1730 with 1 tank, 3 tie loads, 3 cement hoppers, 1 covered hopper, 7 tanks, 1 loaded centerbeam and 11 tanks.
When did 396 come up?
396 came up Friday afternoon. Looked like they brought in 14 cement hoppers and a string of at least 20 tie loads.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:47 am
by AANscaleRunner
A partial answer to csx801 from last month's thread. Wood chips are loaded on the Viking Energy spur, south of the road that runs through the industrial park.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 11:16 am
by AANscaleRunner
399 and 397 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1100 with 1 empty centerbeam for McBain, 10 tie loads, 5 tanks and 12 cement hoppers.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 1:02 pm
by csx801
Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1300

GLC 395 leading
GLC 396
GLC 398

2 plastics hoppers
3 hoppers
6 tanks
3 feed hoppers
4 coke hoppers
1 LPG tank
1 pole load

20 total

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2017 3:21 pm
by csx801
Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1510

GLC 398 leading
GLC 396
GLC 395

2 hoppers
2 plastics hoppers
2 pole empties
8 tie empties
5 LPG tanks
12 cement hoppers

31 total

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:27 am
by AANscaleRunner
Heard them leave Cadillac northbound at 0920. Which direction will they go at Walton Junction?

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:57 pm
by James Sofonia
As of 1230 they had not been thru the East side of TC, no sand was pushed out of the flange ways. Must have been up Kalkaska way.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 5:32 pm
by AANscaleRunner
Back into Cadillac at 1725. String of cement and tanks cars behind Family Video in the North Yard.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 11:42 pm
by TC Man
AANscaleRunner wrote:Back into Cadillac at 1725. String of cement and tanks cars behind Family Video in the North Yard.
No idea but I did see a Sierra Northern locomotive with about 30 tank cars and 9 feed hoppers here in Woodland, California! Loco looks weird, and new. Or some strange combination of 2 different locos rebuilt into 1 weird looking creature.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 11:21 am
by AANscaleRunner
Leaving Cadillac for Clare shortly after 1100.


Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:32 pm
by csx801
Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1310 with their usual consist plus the fall colors train

GLC 395 leading
GLC 398

1 hopper
1 Lumber load
3 plastics hoppers
5 pole loads
7 tie loads
2 plastics hoppers
2 lumber loads
SRI fall colors consist:
9 SRI, GLC, etc Pullmans
2 Ann Arbor Cabeese

32 total

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:20 pm
by James Sofonia
csx801 wrote:
2 Ann Arbor Cabeese

32 total
801, at first I thought you mis-spelled the word caboose. But I looked it up and I find Cabeese is plural for more than one caboose. Never saw that one before!
Ah... look at all the Cabeese :o

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:49 pm
by csx801
Great Lakes Central headed back south through Mount Pleasant at 1545. Missed the car count on this one

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:36 pm
by AANscaleRunner
Returned to Cadillac shortly after 1700.


Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:57 pm
by James Sofonia
AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac shortly after 1700.
Nice job AAN, refreshing to see some passenger equipment up here, especially the "Cabeese" !

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:49 am
by AANscaleRunner
Heard them on the north end of Cadillac at 0915. Haven't heard them since, assuming they are currently headed north.

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 4:49 pm
by MiRailProductions
AANscaleRunner wrote:Heard them on the north end of Cadillac at 0915. Haven't heard them since, assuming they are currently headed north.
With those loaded centerbeams in mind, possibly a TC run?

Re: Great Lakes Central Updates October 2017

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 1:00 pm
by TC Man
MiRailProductions wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Heard them on the north end of Cadillac at 0915. Haven't heard them since, assuming they are currently headed north.
With those loaded centerbeams in mind, possibly a TC run?

I'm still on the west coast, but I'm told that on Friday, GLC brought 3 loaded center beam loads to Amerhart, pulled 2 empties, and pulled 3 loads from Beacon, leaving town with a 5 car train.