CN Updates - March 2018

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Eb rack train by 205 at 0807. 2 cn units up front

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Hey strangers! First post in a while. School and work keeps me busy and keeps me away from the railfanning.

Anyways, 533 was flying through Mt. Clemens last night just before 11 PM. CN 3120 & 5258 with 154 cars. Is this new for 533 to have two engines?

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Eb manifest by 205 at 0931. 2 cn units pulling

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2 cn units an eb manifest by 205 at 1054

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A massive 382 came through Mt. Clemens at 12:22 P.M. A nice lashup of CN 8820, GECX 7371, CN 2438, & CN 5419 with 171 cars. :D

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Eb by 205 at 1250. Fairly short, maybe 502

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149 by 205 at 1352. Citx leader

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Wb by 205. Maybe 397. 3 units pulling, middle one is a bcol cowl. 1536 there's a flat car towards the end with 2 3 axle trucks on it.

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Around 5 pm a late 451 went NB past MP 22.5 with a 5400 leading.

Then just now at 6:22 pm an all autorack NB is going by. Sort of like the old 371 when, what is now 451, was all autoracks. Power was the two BNSF units elephant style that was on that 280 the other day.

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Wb manifest by 205 at 1903. Interesting to see a pair of standard cab units. Most of what comes by these days are wide cabs. Hope everyone is enjoying the weather.

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Around 5 pm a late 451 went NB past MP 22.5 with a 5400 leading.

Then just now at 6:22 pm an all autorack NB is going by. Sort of like the old 371 when, what is now 451, was all autoracks. Power was the two BNSF units elephant style that was on that 280 the other day.
451 has CN 5478 and 2009. Reported no work at Cory when marking up leaving Pontiac.

The BNSF units off Fridays 280 were 7925 and 4220. Saw it Friday.

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Manistique wrote:Then just now at 6:22 pm an all autorack NB is going by. Sort of like the old 371 when, what is now 451, was all autoracks. Power was the two BNSF units elephant style that was on that 280 the other day.
The BNSF-led northbound was entering the Flint Sub at Durand at 7:54pm.

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Short eb mixed freight by 205 at 2011. 2nd unit is a zebra cowl

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CN 1501, a Budd RDC-1 track geometry unit, is tied down in the Battle Creek yard near the MOW bldg., just south of the Emmett St bridge.

Also saw IC/CN 2462 in Conrail blue as one of 3 units on a train waiting to head west. A r/w/b BCOL unit also in the yard, couldn't see the number.

GTW 4626 (CN paint) a venerable old GP9, doing yard duties, like it has for what? 50+ years? Now that's how things should be built! :D

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bctrainfan wrote:CN 1501, a Budd RDC-1 track geometry unit, is tied down in the Battle Creek yard near the MOW bldg., just south of the Emmett St bridge.

GTW 4626 (CN paint) a venerable old GP9, doing yard duties, like it has for what? 50+ years? Now that's how things should be built! :D

OK, do you know where
CN #1501, Budd RDC-1 will head next? Will it come to the Mt. Clemens Sub.? :?:

Folks, I photographed
"Fresh Rebuilt" GTW GP9R #4626, for the first time August 1992!!!! It looked very nice pulling the GTW Local into Mt. Clemens!!!! :mrgreen:
Here's that picture I took at age nine (Canon® AE-1™ 35mm S.L.R.): Image
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At 3:12 am last night a SB rolled past MP 22.5. Didn't get up to look but presume it was 116, which has been running at its regular nocturnal time by my house lately.

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: HHHAHAHHAAAAA YYYYEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Southbound train 385 had an "Amazing" collection of locomotives!!!! We "Caught" up to the train at Stephens Road crossing, Warren, just before 5 p.m. It had CN SD70I #5620, UP SD70ACe #8696, GECX C40-8W #7313 ("CSX YN3") and NS SD60E #6934, 100 cars!!!! Not too bad!!!!!! :wink:
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Hey Robert Trains,

Nice picture of the GTW 4626 in new paint! I remember in the early 90s when the GTW was overhauling and rebuilding their locomotives.

My uncle was working at the shops in Battle Creek at the time as a welder. He gave my Dad and I a tour of the place around this time. (Everything is pretty much gone now except the main shop building). He was new to the railroad then, and now is looking forward to retirement.

Thanks for the memories of that GTW loco! What a great picture. I like the memories of NO GRAFITTI on the railcars and the caboose at the end. I am just old enough to remember all 3 - GTW locomotives, cabooses, and no Graffiti.

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David Lang wrote:Hey Robert Trains,

Nice picture of the GTW 4626 in new paint! I remember in the early 90s when the GTW was overhauling and rebuilding their locomotives.

My uncle was working at the shops in Battle Creek at the time as a welder. He gave my Dad and I a tour of the place around this time. (Everything is pretty much gone now except the main shop building). He was new to the railroad then, and now is looking forward to retirement.

Thanks for the memories of that GTW loco! What a great picture. I like the memories of NO GRAFITTI on the railcars and the caboose at the end. I am just old enough to remember all 3 - GTW locomotives, cabooses, and no Graffiti.

David Lang

Thanx David! I always watched (and photographed) the GTW growing up!!!! I've been a "Railfan" since I was 4 in 1987! Cabooses!!!!


Here's a picture my Dad (RCJ I) took (Canon® 35mm SLR) of "Fresh Graffitiless" GTW "Hi-Cube" Boxcars, Chesterfield, MI in 1990:


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Train 451 NB past MP 22.5 at 8:34. Short train.

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