Great Lakes Central Updates November 2017

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Great Lakes Central was back south through Mount Pleasant at 1540. I was not trackside to see them.

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Returned to Cadillac at 1755. Too dark to see anything from the house.

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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1100.

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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1150

GLC 397 leading
GLC 396

12 hoppers
6 plastics hoppers
7 wood chip hoppers
3 LPG tanks

28 total

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Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1520

GLC 393 leading
GLC 392

1 plastics hopper
6 hoppers
3 wood chip loads
2 plastics hoppers
2 hoppers
5 tie gondolas
2 tanks
5 LPG tanks
3 hoppers
2 LPG tanks

31 total

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397 and 396 into Cadillac at 1530 with 7 wood chip hoppers, 3 tanks and 10 MAC hoppers.

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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1000.


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Great Lakes Central north through Mount Pleasant at 1130

GLC 395 leading
GLC 398

3 tanks
3 plastics hoppers
3 loaded tie gondolas
21 LPG tanks
1 cement hopper
1 plastics hopper

32 total

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Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1350

GLC 398 leading
GLC 395

1 loaded centerbeam
2 pulpwood loads
5 LPG tanks
3 tanks (same 3 that went north earlier)
6 LPG tanks

17 Total

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csx801 wrote:Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1350

GLC 398 leading
GLC 395

1 loaded centerbeam
17 Total
What was on the centerbeam and where did it ship from. I haven't seen any centerbeams up here in TC for a few weeks.

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Returned to Cadillac around 1500 or so. Just heard them over Selma Yard way.

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Pixl wrote:
csx801 wrote:Great Lakes Central south through Mount Pleasant at 1350

GLC 398 leading
GLC 395

1 loaded centerbeam
17 Total
What was on the centerbeam and where did it ship from. I haven't seen any centerbeams up here in TC for a few weeks.

The sawmill in McBain occasionally ships lumber. There may be another empty sitting in Selma Yard for them.

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Heard them move into Selma Yard at 1340. Left Cadillac at 1410 and returned at 1550. Short trip to McBain today.

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396 and 397 left Cadillac for Clare at 1010 with 12 covered hoppers (10 MAC and 2 feed facility), 7 tanks, 1 tie gon and 9 tanks.

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Nb past the Ithaca soy bean plant at 1320. Looks like a pretty nice train from the highway.

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Great Lakes Central South through Mount Pleasant at 1315.
Its been a while since I've seen the CSTN come this far south.

GLC 396 leading
GLC 397

12 hoppers (I counted 8 MAC and 4 feed but I was a distance from the tracks)
1 LPG tank
4 Wood Chip gondolas
3 tie gondolas
6 LPG tanks
1 tie gondola
9 LPG tanks

36 total
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Sb sitting a little north of shepherd 1340

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Great Lakes Central working HARD north through Mount Pleasant with a beast of a train at 1440. They crawled past me going much slower than typical with all 3 GP35s smoking good and hard.

GLC 392 leading
GLC 393
GLC 390

9 Plastics hoppers
2 hoppers
14 tie gondolas
1 loaded pole flat
1 wood chip gondola
13 hoppers
3 LPG tanks
1 tie gondola
1 feed hopper
1 LPG tank
3 cement hoppers
1 tank
10 LPG tanks
6 Cement Hoppers
2 LPG tanks

68 total

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It will be awesome if someone gets a video 8)
csx801 wrote:Great Lakes Central working HARD north through Mount Pleasant with a beast of a train at 1440. They crawled past me going much slower than typical with all 3 GP35s smoking good and hard.

GLC 392 leading
GLC 393
GLC 390

68 total
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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Into Cadillac at 1810. Too dark to see anything from the house, but sounded like they were working hard.

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