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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1055.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0955.

Returned to Cadillac at 1600.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1000.

395 and 398 returned to Cadillac at 1430 with around 20 tie gons, 6 cement hoppers and 1 gon for Beacon. Got to watch them from about four blocks away. Around 1230 I heard horns on the north end of town. I'm assuming it was the stranded Mancelona power coming south. Tufford Yard now has a ballast/Beacon train for TC and plastics/cement for the Petoskey branch. I fully expect a northern run tomorrow. Too bad I'm working.

A couple units working in Oakley 1012. Currently just west of m52

They're currently blasting their horn through Kingsley, sounds like 382 is back.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1200.

10 plastic pellets cars and 15 cement cars among others

AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1200.

Mancelona hospital train leaving Cadillac southbound at 1100. Traveling around 10 mph.

Happy Veterans Day. Leaving Cadillac at 1100.

Leaving Cadillac for Elmira at 0905. A balmy 18 degrees out today.

AANR, you are tough .

Interesting they used one of the cement cars as a spacer. I don't think mty LPG tank cars require a spacer between the engine, perhaps I'm mistaken. Or maybe they use the cement car to keep the engines of the siding when they park them north of Kalkaska then pick them up southbound on their way to switch the gas plant south of town.

AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Elmira at 0905. A balmy 18 degrees out today.

AARR wrote:AANR, you are tough .

Interesting they used one of the cement cars as a spacer. I don't think mty LPG tank cars require a spacer between the engine, perhaps I'm mistaken. Or maybe they use the cement car to keep the engines of the siding when they park them north of Kalkaska then pick them up southbound on their way to switch the gas plant south of town.

AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Elmira at 0905. A balmy 18 degrees out today.

Unless properly cleaned, the tank cars still carry a hazardous placard.

Hazardous tanks are still considered hazardous unless they are fully cleaned and the placards are removed. Otherwise they are a "residue car" which still requires at least 1 buffer car between a locomotive or an occupied caboose.

Thanks DaveO and SD80

Looks like maybe a smaller unit train working the bean plant in ithaca. One unit parked on the main north of the switch and another in the siding moving around some new looking covered hoppers 1730

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1120. Caught them at Seeley Rd and Euclid St in McBain.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0955.

Doesn't seem like many coke cars are being shipped

And it seems like feed cars are up