CN Train Location Updates - October 2020

[GTW6401]

251 is ready to depart from Pontiac. They are going to work at Red Lava in Waterford in route.

[ConrailDetr​oit]

251 is ready to depart from Pontiac. They are going to work at Red Lava in Waterford in route.

Unusual that a local is not working Red Lava.

[ConrailDetr​oit]

514, CN 5469 south approaching Moterm.

514 is leaving Moterm to go north. Single engine.

[KC8RBK]

Wb manifest by 205 with a single cn at 1940.

[Dan Cluley]

Eastbound with CN 3101 solo through East Lansing at 20:34.

[KC8RBK]

Wb manifest by 205 with 2 cn at 2034

[Dan Cluley]

Amtrak 364 out of East Lansing at 21:00.

4620, 6 cars & 4627.

[KC8RBK]

Single cn unit running light eb by 205 at 2210

[KC8RBK]

Eb manifest by 205 at 2227 with 2 cn. One pulling and one in the middle.

[Dan Cluley]

Single cn unit running light eb by 205 at 2210

Sounds like they are going to work at Cory & then head back to Battle Creek.

[ConrailDetr​oit]

NB by Beaubien with 3 CNs.

[AARR]

3101 working the north end of Pontiac Yard

[AARR]

The scrap yard on what’s left of the PollyAnn is getting switched

3101 is still switching the north end of Pontiac Yard

[David Lang]

Thanks Don Simon for that update.

I wonder if the GM Lake Orion Plant will ever ship out finished vehicles again. Anyone know if there is any hope?

[KC8RBK]

Eb manifest by 205 at 2200 with 2 cn

[KC8RBK]

Big eb manifest by 205 at 0712. I didn't look out the window to see what the power was but it sounded like a ge maybe 75% of the way back helping get er down the rails. Currently lined to cedar. Something working cory and one at east durand making the turn to go south.

[arty flowers]

CN shipping out of Orion remains to be seen, however posters over on the Michigan facebook site report that the Pontiac Metal Stamping Center is starting to see a big uptick in boxcar traffic out of there for CN to ship to GM plants in Arlington Texas and the Fairfax Assembly Plant near Kansas City. This coupled with the Flint GM truck plant expansion and the new activity at the Lansing Delta Plant make for promising things to come for CN traffic. Not sure whats going on in Canada at the moment but it sounds like most of their assembly plants are starting to pick up too.

[KC8RBK]

Eb manifest by 205 with 2 cn at 1428

[KC8RBK]

Wb manifest by 2 cn elephant style by 205 at 1449

[GTWChris]

514 south at Birmingham at 17:13 with GTW 6224 and CN 5469