"Port Huron Time!!!!" 9-17/18 (2016)
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 11:50 am
OK, I went to Port Huron last weekend (9-17/18)!!!! I stayed the night at my friend "Mazon's" house (only 6 blocks from Amtrak® 16th street station)! We walked to the station late at night! The Amtrak® "Blue Water" was parked. There was a westbound CN with two engines (unsure of numbers)! We couldn't get "Long Exposures" because there was an issue with the camera working!
In the morning (Mazon sleeping), I walked to the 24th Street overpass! Though the police came—I was fine to wait in the grass when a CN worker came! I photographed two trains there!!!! Westbound train 397 came at 10:45 a.m. It had CN ET44ACs #3005/3039 with 168 cars!!!! Eastbound train 348 was doing "Yard Work" for a little while before that westbound train. Shortly later, it started crossing the bridge! It had CN ET44AC #3028, CN ES44AC #2921, CN SD75I #5686 and CN ES44AC #2860! I didn't wait for the train (I then missed a few). Later, Mazon and I went down to St. Clair hoping to see CSX! Nothing!!!! We caught westbound CN/GTW train 501 at 16th street around 5 p.m. It had CN SD70M-2 #8866 and CN SD70I #5621 with 72 cars!!!! In the yard were two CN painted GTW GP38-2 units: #4903 and 4929! We caught CSX D710 coming into Port Huron shortly before 6 p.m. It had two CSX ES40DC locos, #5424/5202, and 11 cars!!!! OK, in August 2015, a fire burned the coal plant in St. Clair!!!! Does anybody know if that plant will "Re-open?" Is the only traffic on CSX in Port Huron the local stuff? I've read that the local only goes one direction to/from Flint per day—is this correct? Are there any others? I would like to catch more CSX trains in Pt. Huron though! I will be doing this again (spending tonight (9-24) at Mazon's house)!!!!
In the morning (Mazon sleeping), I walked to the 24th Street overpass! Though the police came—I was fine to wait in the grass when a CN worker came! I photographed two trains there!!!! Westbound train 397 came at 10:45 a.m. It had CN ET44ACs #3005/3039 with 168 cars!!!! Eastbound train 348 was doing "Yard Work" for a little while before that westbound train. Shortly later, it started crossing the bridge! It had CN ET44AC #3028, CN ES44AC #2921, CN SD75I #5686 and CN ES44AC #2860! I didn't wait for the train (I then missed a few). Later, Mazon and I went down to St. Clair hoping to see CSX! Nothing!!!! We caught westbound CN/GTW train 501 at 16th street around 5 p.m. It had CN SD70M-2 #8866 and CN SD70I #5621 with 72 cars!!!! In the yard were two CN painted GTW GP38-2 units: #4903 and 4929! We caught CSX D710 coming into Port Huron shortly before 6 p.m. It had two CSX ES40DC locos, #5424/5202, and 11 cars!!!! OK, in August 2015, a fire burned the coal plant in St. Clair!!!! Does anybody know if that plant will "Re-open?" Is the only traffic on CSX in Port Huron the local stuff? I've read that the local only goes one direction to/from Flint per day—is this correct? Are there any others? I would like to catch more CSX trains in Pt. Huron though! I will be doing this again (spending tonight (9-24) at Mazon's house)!!!!