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Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:07 pm
by AANscaleRunner
Heard them return to Cadillac at 1500. They finished switching North Yard at 1600. Did see last Friday's boxcar inside the Wyoming Feed facility. That mystery is solved.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:48 pm
by TCBrent
Looks like they didn’t take the gondola brought up last week. Currently 2 gons in the siding in at Beacon in TC

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:19 pm
by TC Man
TCBrent wrote:Looks like they didn’t take the gondola brought up last week. Currently 2 gons in the siding in at Beacon in TC
Based on the time they were back in Cadillac, thinking they just dropped that gondola and went right back to Cadillac- don't think they would have had time to ginger the empty in Williamsburg either.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:27 am
by TC Man
Also notice a new red square sign planted right in the center of the Grawn branch main track just beyond the Beacon property with white lettering (end of track, out of service, something like that).

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:39 am
by AANscaleRunner
390 and 385 left Cadillac for Clare at 1115 with 3 pole loads, 2 tie loads, 3 covered hoppers, 1 empty center beam, 2 covered hoppers, 4 tanks, 1 boxcar, 7 tanks, 1 covered hopper, 4 tanks, 1 boxcar, 14 covered hoppers.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:39 pm
by AARR
Seems like they won't be using the Grawn passing siding anymore
TC Man wrote:Also notice a new red square sign planted right in the center of the Grawn branch main track just beyond the Beacon property with white lettering (end of track, out of service, something like that).

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:44 pm
by TC Man
AARR wrote:Seems like they won't be using the Grawn passing siding anymore
TC Man wrote:Also notice a new red square sign planted right in the center of the Grawn branch main track just beyond the Beacon property with white lettering (end of track, out of service, something like that).
Probably with Cherry Growers officially shut down and all equipment to be sold to pay off creditors, it's either mean the end of the Grawn branch beyond Beacon (or maybe a couple miles beyond where there are non-rail using industries that could hold hope for rail use). OR, the empty building gets sold to someone else who decided to use rail. One can only hope that GLC partners with the seller (when that comes) to promote it as a rail-friendly facility.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:55 pm
by AANscaleRunner
AANscaleRunner wrote:390 and 385 left Cadillac with 14 covered hoppers.
Out of these last 14 hoppers, the first 10 looked like PD 3000 pressurized hoppers. The three bay ones with the pipes on the bottom. I was too far away to get any road numbers, but I wonder if maybe some cement snuck up here while we weren't looking. Or if some other dry goods did.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:02 pm
by AANscaleRunner
Back into Cadillac at 1700 with 1 coke hopper, 1 empty center beam, 7 wood chip hoppers, 22 tanks and 2 covered hoppers.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:09 am
by AANscaleRunner
390 and 385 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0905 with 7 wood chip hoppers and 6 tanks.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:44 pm
by MIGN-Bill
Who ships or unloads the wood chip hoppers in Cadillac?

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:55 pm
by AANscaleRunner
MIGN-Bill wrote:Who ships or unloads the wood chip hoppers in Cadillac?
Wood chips are loaded and shipped out of McBain by Biewer lumber.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:57 pm
by AANscaleRunner
399 and 396 returned to Cadillac at 1825 with 2 covered hoppers, 2 tanks, 1 pole load, 1 gondola and 2 tanks.

Gondola road # DJJX 950876

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:59 pm
by AARR
This traffic is supposed to average around 30-40 cars per month and goes to a mill in WI (last I heard). However, when the new mill in Grayling opens these chips will probably be diverted to there and will go by truck.
AANscaleRunner wrote:
MIGN-Bill wrote:Who ships or unloads the wood chip hoppers in Cadillac?
Wood chips are loaded and shipped out of McBain by Biewer lumber.

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:02 pm
by TC Man
AANscaleRunner wrote:399 and 396 returned to Cadillac at 1825 with 2 covered hoppers, 2 tanks, 1 pole load, 1 gondola and 2 tanks.

Gondola road # DJJX 950876
3rd gondola this week for Beacon in TC? :D

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:16 pm
by MIGN-Bill
AARR wrote:This traffic is supposed to average around 30-40 cars per month and goes to a mill in WI (last I heard). However, when the new mill in Grayling opens these chips will probably be diverted to there and will go by truck.
AANscaleRunner wrote:
MIGN-Bill wrote:Who ships or unloads the wood chip hoppers in Cadillac?
Wood chips are loaded and shipped out of McBain by Biewer lumber.
So does this mean that GLC will head south and switch McBain, then bring loads back to Cadillac and then send them south again later?
If they do this, do they also switch other areas in a similar manner during same "turn"?
I don't see a run around track in McBain - is there somewhere else nearby to run around for trip back?

Re: GLC Updates January 2018

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:20 am
by AARR
Usually if there are southbound cars from McBain they'll continue to Clare and set off then head back to Cadillac.

There isn't a run around track in McBain. There is one in Marion.

McBain has two customers with southbound switches and one with a northbound switch.
MIGN-Bill wrote:So does this mean that GLC will head south and switch McBain, then bring loads back to Cadillac and then send them south again later?
If they do this, do they also switch other areas in a similar manner during same "turn"?
I don't see a run around track in McBain - is there somewhere else nearby to run around for trip back?