Michigan Short Line Updates - March 2018

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GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:35 with 2 non-King CHs
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GRE --- WB Leonard at 1:29 with 19 CHs and 1 tank
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GRE --- got a yard full of CHs, but is EB Leonard at 8:03 with a single tank
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GRE --- WB Leonard at 10:05 with 7 CHs
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0703hrs Ann Arbor is doubling up their train at Osmer and is getting ready to head south. 3 units
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Grain unit train?
CAT345C wrote:0703hrs Ann Arbor is doubling up their train at Osmer and is getting ready to head south. 3 units
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Patriot wrote:GRE --- got a yard full of CHs, but is EB Leonard at 8:03 with a single tank
There are no cars that I can see anywhere in Lowell today, as of 5:30pm.

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Grand Elk SB at Ann Street in GR around noon today. 2 locomotives, long hood forward (3531 & 3534) and about 30 load sand hoppers. I will check Lowell in a few minutes.

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And still no cars in Lowell. A line of hoppers were shoved west of Alpine Ave. Not sure if they are loads or empties.

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Grand Elk is headed south from Kalamazoo right now. Not sure who it is but I see a lot of those stubby little two-bay CHs. No more than 20 MPH.
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No cars in Lowell yet, but two tracks are full of hoppers at Ann Street. Probably two trips east tomorrow for the GRE?

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GRE --- EB Leonard at 11:53 with 19 CHs for King
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GRE was moving cars around the Ann Street yard just before noon, and head east after lunch again. In the dark, it looked like at least 30 cars around Lowell.

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Marquette Rail currently moving around Manistee at 2:26pm.. dunno exactly what, inside an antique store :p
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GDLK --- NB Leonard at 10:48 with a string of sandies.
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GRE --- was EB Leonard at 11:45 with a couple of non-King CHs
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MQT Z151 due south out of Baldwin around 1300. 81+3407+3389

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GRE --- WB Leonard at 2:10 with 14 CHs
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MQT Turn Hob crew tying it down in Newaygo right now. Trackwork at Grant in the way. 81, 3407 and 3389.
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GRE --- EB Leonard at 11:28 with 20 CHs for King
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