CN Updates: July 2018

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Wb manifest by 219 at 0952

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933 switching the meijer lead in Lansing 0956
5439 for power. Has an advanced approach for m1 at mill

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M383 was by Mount Clemens depot at 04:45. CN/CN, 120 cars.

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Train 451 with a former CSX Citi lease unit leading a CN one NB past MP 22.5 at 2:18 pm.

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CN L502 Clear Trowbridge at 2:45PM.

CN 2672(?)
CN 2120.

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451 cleared the detector MP 59.9 at 5:00 PM. 4475 feet long, 214 axles.

Will meet 502 at the south side siding. 502 has CN 2672 leading. My understanding is 397 is approaching Durand now.

Edit to add:

397 cleared the detector MP 257.1 at 5:22 PM, 566 axles. Sounds like CN 2605 Leading.

I heard 451 make reference to having NS 7342 as the lead engine? I wonder if a change to the power on 451 was made at Pontiac? As Manistique reported a Citi rail engine as leading.

502 cleared the detector MP 59.9 at 5:34 PM. 3682 feet, 172 axles.
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L533S by South Mount at 17:50. GTW 4626, 65 containers.

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Just got a notification on my phone of a train pedestrian fatality in battle creek but it didn't say when or where. Anyone heard anything?

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KC8RBK wrote:Just got a notification on my phone of a train pedestrian fatality in battle creek but it didn't say when or where. Anyone heard anything?
https://wwmt.com/news/local/pedestrian- ... ttle-creek
Trails to Rails. Put the track back.

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M385 by Chesterfield at 19:45. CN/CN/CN, 89 cars.

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I caught 391 at Williams Lake Rd. at 11:15 PM. CN 3072, CN 3085.

Edit to add:

391 cleared the detector MP 59.9 at 11:56 PM. 2281 feet long, 142 axles.
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M384 by Mount Clemens depot at 22:50. CN 5767/BCOL/CN, 119 cars.

L533N by Mount Clemens depot at 23:28. GTW 4626, 129 containers.

It's a pleasure to see ancient geeps in charge of fast intermodal trains in 2018...

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What I believe to be 116 cleared the detector MP 59.9 at 4:07 AM. 1093 feet, 50 axles.

For reference 514 was just pulling in to the yard at Pontiac at the same time. GTW 4912 leading 514.

Edit to add:

I caught 116 at Williams Lake Rd. 4:42 AM. CN 2912 solo.

2 autoracks, and about 10 or 12 container wells. That was the shortest 116 I have seen.
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Wb manifest by 205 at 0620. Single cn unit rolling pretty slow. Maybe 20mph

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What must have been that short 116 followed Amtrak 351 out of Pontiac this morning as, though I didn't get up to see it, I noted that it was a very short train. Maybe even shorter leaving Pontiac than when it arrived as it almost sounded like light engines.

At 9:25 am a SB sand train went past MP 22.5 with three CN locomotives.

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451, CN 2012 has permission by the "troll under the bridge" at MP 5.62 on Conrail Detroit Line.

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M383 was by North Mount at 07:40. CN/ex CSX/CN/CN, 115 cars.

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Train 451 NB past MP 22.5 at 2 pm with two CN units.

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L533S, leaving Mount Clemens for East Yard and Moterm after making a pickup at Mount Clemens yard. GTW 4626, 6 empty centerbeams and 8 containers.

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EB CN at Hope at 5:55PM.

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