CN Updates-May 2019

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391 by Royal Oak at 1907. CN 8834, CN 5780, CP 9716, BNSF 671, CN 2516, and GECX 2038.

CN 8834 and 5780 were on yesterdays 502, and the others were on the S756 sand train.

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Wb manifest by 205 at 2021. Mostly racks. Maybe 2 other cars. Cn leading bnsf

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Train 515 with 5456 again SB past MP 22.2 at 9:25 am. It had that shoving platform car or whatever it is on the rear end today. I haven't seen that on it for a few days.

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E271 by North MOUNT at 15:01. CN/CN, 12,000' of racks.

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Train 515 returning to Pontiac NB past MP 22.5 at speed at 4:06 pm with a long train and that platform car on the rear.

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L533S leaving Mount Clemens at 16:55. CN/CN, 5 loaded boxcars, 2 empty centerbeams.

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M385 by Mount Clemens depot at 19:14. CN/CN, 97 cars.

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M384 by Grove Park (MTC 22.6) at 20:52. CN/CN, 134 cars.

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Empty sand train (except for one car in the middle it looked) NB past MP 22.5 at 9:21 pm with a single CN zebra striped cowl as power. It may be 391 as it had its usual engineer.

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371 met 502 at West Pontiac at 8:20pm.

371 - CN 8950, CN 5685, BNSF 8340, CN 8100.

502 - BNSF 4006 and CN 2516.

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L533N by Mount Clemens depot at 22:58.

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Manistique wrote:Empty sand train (except for one car in the middle it looked) NB past MP 22.5 at 9:21 pm with a single CN zebra striped cowl as power. It may be 391 as it had its usual engineer.
I caught 391 at Williams Lake Rd. at 11:50 PM. CN 2451 solo.had the empty sand as Manistique states above but also had a big chunk of intermodal containers at the back. (picked up at Pontiac.) That intermodal tossed me for a loop. was not sure what train that was till the dispatcher referred to them as 391.
391 will meet 116 at Holly.
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kc8bdr wrote:
Manistique wrote:Empty sand train (except for one car in the middle it looked) NB past MP 22.5 at 9:21 pm with a single CN zebra striped cowl as power. It may be 391 as it had its usual engineer.
I caught 391 at Williams Lake Rd. at 11:50 PM. CN 2451 solo.had the empty sand as Manistique states above but also had a big chunk of intermodal containers at the back. (picked up at Pontiac.) That intermodal tossed me for a loop. was not sure what train that was till the dispatcher referred to them as 391.
391 will meet 116 at Holly.
Not sure what took so long, but that weird 391 just got to East Lansing at 3:30.
It did have the usual string of empty lumber cars, so it looked like a typical 391 with the sand cars ahead, and stacks behind. The single car in the middle of the sand hoppers was a coil car.

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391 met at least 2 eastbounds at Shaftsburg.

Had 81 cars going into Pontiac. 80 sand cars and the coil car.

Its a good sized train leaving Pontiac now with the cars 513 and 515 brings in for it. Typically its been very small leaving Toledo in 2019.

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Eb manifest 205 at 0725. Missed the power

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711? By 205 at 0755. Mixed freight on the head end. Ns leading bnsf both units long hood forward. Light at mill for wb m2

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KC8RBK wrote:711? By 205 at 0755. Mixed freight on the head end. Ns leading bnsf both units long hood forward. Light at mill for wb m2
Currently going through Bellevue. I got lucky and caught it down here. All the coal cars are srlx

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365 by 205 at 0908

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GTW6401 wrote:391 met at least 2 eastbounds at Shaftsburg.

Had 81 cars going into Pontiac. 80 sand cars and the coil car.

Its a good sized train leaving Pontiac now with the cars 513 and 515 brings in for it. Typically its been very small leaving Toledo in 2019.
This operation has reverted back to the way it was a number of years ago, where one of the two daily Pontiac-based locals that worked Detroit would grab intermodals at Moterm on its way back to Pontiac for the evening westbound manifest freight to Chicago to pick up and fill out with.
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Train 515 with 5456 again SB past MP 22.5 at 9:30 am with a shorter train today and no platform car.

Train 371 is NB passing MP 22.5 at 3:50 pm with four CN's (all GE's I think), three of them working very hard pulling up the Hill.

Train 515 is charging NB past MP 22.5 at speed at 4:11 pm with 32 cars.

Locomotive 5456 is wearing its evening hat drifting light SB past MP 22.5 at 5:17 pm as Train 513 presumably to haul doublestacks back to Pontiac tonight.
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