GLC Updates July 2018

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390 and 396 currently switching North Yard. No indication as to which way they may be headed today.

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Southbound out of Cadillac around 0930.

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Looks like it was a quick trip to McBain and back. 4 gons and 1 centerbeam which were in North Yard are now gone. Assuming TC bound within the last 20 minutes.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:Looks like it was a quick trip to McBain and back. 4 gons and 1 centerbeam which were in North Yard are now gone. Assuming TC bound within the last 20 minutes.

Currently at Beacon with 4 empties, 6 loads, and a lumber load.
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TC Man wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Looks like it was a quick trip to McBain and back. 4 gons and 1 centerbeam which were in North Yard are now gone. Assuming TC bound within the last 20 minutes.

Currently at Beacon with 4 empties, 6 loads, and a lumber load.
Headed to Williamsburg with the center beam. They took 5 loads from Beacon today. Also pushed the TSBY box car farther down the Grawn branch a few hundred feet to give them more switching lead room.
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Owosso crew ran to Middleton today.
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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1145.

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Here is some video of yesterdays run to Beacon in Traverse city.



Note the little red sign in the middle of the tracks in the 2nd video. I think is says end line or something like that. Well now it is definitively the end as they have pulled the spikes on the rail just beyond it and it is laying on it's side.

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Pixl wrote:Here is some video of yesterdays run to Beacon in Traverse city.



Note the little red sign in the middle of the tracks in the 2nd video. I think is says end line or something like that. Well now it is definitively the end as they have pulled the spikes on the rail just beyond it and it is laying on it's side.
Also all public grade crossing beyond Beacon now have "Exempt" on the crossbucks.
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Returned to Cadillac at 1720.



Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.


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AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1720.



Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.

14 TSBY hoppers for Beacon in TC. To meet the torch...
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TC Man wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1720.



Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.

14 TSBY hoppers for Beacon in TC. To meet the torch...
Maybe I’ll be able to catch a over 10 car train in tc :D

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TC railman wrote:
TC Man wrote:
AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1720.



Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.

14 TSBY hoppers for Beacon in TC. To meet the torch...
Maybe I’ll be able to catch a over 10 car train in tc :D
There have been several this year- I've caught 10, 16, 21 car trains with revenue cars and cuts of these cars for scrap.
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Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
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MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?

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TC railman wrote:
MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?

They don't have time to go to Petoskey and TC in one day.
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TC railman wrote:
MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?
Nope. Consist today was:

GLC 390
GLC 396
6 Plastics Hoppers
8 Cement Hoppers
2 Tanks

I chased them from Cadillac to Kalkaska and got some good video for my YouTube. I'll put the video here when I have it uploaded.
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MiRailProductions wrote:
TC railman wrote:
MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?
Nope. Consist today was:

GLC 390
GLC 396
6 Plastics Hoppers
8 Cement Hoppers
2 Tanks

I chased them from Cadillac to Kalkaska and got some good video for my YouTube. I'll put the video here when I have it uploaded.

Also, something worth noting. They really fly on this line! It looked like they were doing 40+ north of Manton, we were doing 60 and were just barely passing them!

I know the plastics hoppers for the transloads south of petoskey, cement hopper for the Elmira cement plant and where the two tank cars destine to?

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railrod1949 wrote:
MiRailProductions wrote:
TC railman wrote: Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?
Nope. Consist today was:

GLC 390
GLC 396
6 Plastics Hoppers
8 Cement Hoppers
2 Tanks

I chased them from Cadillac to Kalkaska and got some good video for my YouTube. I'll put the video here when I have it uploaded.

Also, something worth noting. They really fly on this line! It looked like they were doing 40+ north of Manton, we were doing 60 and were just barely passing them!

I know the plastics hoppers for the transloads south of petoskey, cement hopper for the Elmira cement plant and where the two tank cars destine to?
The tank cars are going to Magnum Transload in Kalkaska.
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TC Man wrote:
They don't have time to go to Petoskey and TC in one day.
Back before Beacon started rail up again, I seem to remember someone posting in here that they do on occasion go both Northern branches making a long day. Might have been coming up on a holiday and they wanted to get cars out.

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