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Buster Manning wrote:It was posted earlier that there was a night job in Cadillac now taking care of Cadillac proper and Viking down in McBain....yet I see loads for Viking in the tuesday southbound which makes me think the road job is switching them again....has the night job been abolished??

I'm thinking they run it as needed with an extra crew. I don't think there's enough work yet to run a scheduled job.

GLC just went thru Manton going NORTH, with 9 tanker cars. Anyone know where it's going?

KingsleyRailFan wrote:GLC just went thru Manton going NORTH, with 9 tanker cars. Anyone know where it's going?

Kalkaska- there is the transload in town and the MichCon (whatever they are called now) just south of town.

As TC Man said there are two tank car customers in Kalkaska. The transload is methanol in regular tank cars for Magnum Solvents which receives a few car loads every other week or so. Then the gas plant south of town ships butane in large tank cars. The gas plant ships 40-60 cars a month (maybe more?)

TC Man wrote:

KingsleyRailFan wrote:GLC just went thru Manton going NORTH, with 9 tanker cars. Anyone know where it's going?

Kalkaska- there is the transload in town and the MichCon (whatever they are called now) just south of town.

TC Man wrote:I was wondering as well, after a few weeks ago GLC came to TC late at night a few times, and then now seem to be back to their usual arriving around 11am on the days they come up here.
Also, thinking the trackwork here should resume soon...

Fine with me as we hardly have any trains here let alone them running at night that I never see.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0900.

Sb working the Ithaca bean plant 1513

GLC NB 393 leading 329/395 headed NB with a very long train - @ Ann Pere headed NB - 3:16 pm

398 and 382 returned to Cadillac approximately 1500 with 30 cars, mostly tie gons. Nothing for TC.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0900.

Pixl wrote:

TC Man wrote:I was wondering as well, after a few weeks ago GLC came to TC late at night a few times, and then now seem to be back to their usual arriving around 11am on the days they come up here.
Also, thinking the trackwork here should resume soon...

Fine with me as we hardly have any trains here let alone them running at night that I never see.

Looks like they came into TC again at night (Tuesday night) based on the rearranged gons at Beacon. And fresh flange marks on the Williamsburg branch.

I didn't see the news anyplace on RRfan but the Viking Energy plant in McBain is now owned by National Salvage and Service Co. https://www.nssccorp.com/
Their website says they handle NS tie disposal so that should mean more traffic. The ties no longer are taken for free. There's now a charge of $1 / tie.

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0925.

Today about 09:30 I seen the northbound leaving Owosso he has a bulkhead flat on the rear with a load of steel sheets. Two units up front couldn't tell what the trailing unit was leader was the 329.

Sb working the Ithaca bean plant. I couldn't see the unit numbers 1610

OSTN working Ann Pere same time as D708 from CSX

Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0900.

329 and 392 working the soybean plant at 1101.

Returned to Cadillac at 1520.

OSTN South at Durand, 16:10. 392 leading 329