MI Shortline Updates April 2017

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CFE 3885 and MQT 3389 departed Ludington at 1455 this afternoon. Talk about weird seeing a red locomotive up this way!
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GRE arriving in Lowell.
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GRE westbound at Ada 10:42.
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GRE --- WB Leonard at 11:00 with 11 CHs and 1 tank.
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GDLK SB road train is switching industries south of school raft @ 2:40pm.
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GDLK leaving Elkhart NB
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GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:50 with 14 CHs (3 of them non-King).
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CPMY X7014 on duty at 1630 for two MTYs
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GRE --- EB Leonard at 12:16 with one non-King CH and one tank.
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GRE --- WB Leonard at 2:25 with 7 CHs from King.
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Sounds like gdlk is at 36th Street in Grand Rapids
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Per sd80mac, GRE sounded eastbound through Ada at 10:23am.
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GRE westbound at Ada 12:31.
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GRE --- WB Leonard at 12:52 with 17 CHs.
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Per glx392 and Borg, GDLK was at Wayland working with 4 locomotives and 78 cars northbound as of 30 mins ago.
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0400 EDT Z151 AT WYOMING. SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE PUTTING THE OUTBOUNDS TOGETHER.
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