CN Updates- July 2019

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L533 was working Mount Clemens at @16:30. GTW 4929.

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E271 by Mount Clemens depot at 18:30. CN/CN, 96 empty racks for Flat Rock.

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Man o' War, have you learned anything else about the loaded box cars being shipped from the Mt. Clemens Warehouse?
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A sand train (Train 765?) just went SB past MP 22.5 with three or four CN's as power and a little longer than usual train. Why does this train rate so much power always? I know sand is heavy but coal trains only had two locomotives usually when on the Holly. And the sand trains are not that long.

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Looks like a significant number of trains around Durand right now (19:20). An L505-type train just worked the yard and departed westbound on Main 2 (CN 5714, CN 8904). If I've been following ATCS correctly, M371 just came north from Pitt (where GLC may be waiting), there is at least one (and possibly two) eastbounds waiting on Main 1 between Bancroft and Clara, there is a westbound waiting on Main 1 between Durand and East Durand, and another westbound approaching between East Durand and Flint.
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CREX 1516 leading four or five CN locomotives on Train 391 is NB passing MP 22.5 at 8:17 pm with a medium-sized train.

Train 514 with BLE 878 leading CN 5459 again just went SB past MP 22.5 at 9:17 pm. Tonight it had a longer train and the first 20 or 25 cars were truck frames on flat cars, the rest containers. I don't think I have ever seen frames heading south on the Holly out of Pontiac before. In the old days they came north to Pontiac for the Yellow Cab truck plant. Now that is closed we never see frames here other than those seen in the reroutes of the Mt. Clemens Sub. recently. And this is the first time 514 has had anything other than containers on its SB run or NB run between Pontiac and Moterm. I wonder where they are going and who is going to pick them up at Moterm?

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M383 through Belle River Valley at 00:05. CN/CN and a CN DPU about half way back in a 10,000' plus train. Doing 50 per through the basin. The Crawford intermediate signal is the solid only hint of light in the pitch black hills tonight.

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Wb coal train by 205 at 0720

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L311 windmill train leaving Port Huron heading west very shortly.
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Some sort of loran train eb by 205 at 1016. I'm not there so I can't confirm what it is.

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M384 was by Belle River bridge at 02:00. CN/CN/CN.

Unidentified Manifest by Mount Clemens depot at 06:30. CN/CN.

Unidentified Manifest by South Mount at 09:20.

M382 by Mount Clemens depot at 11:40. CN/CN, 152 cars.

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x383 by Mount Clemens depot at 13:09. CN/CEFX, 127 cars. 6th large manifest train today.

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X38891 11 at Walton CN 3242 heading east.
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M383 passed CP Rodney at 1610. CN 3222 (100th Anniversary ET44AC) and GECX 2033 (ET44AC) leading. No DPU.
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Train 515 had GTW 5844 as power today. Returned NB to Pontiac around 2 pm.

Train 371 had two CN road units (one with the 100 on the long hood) leading GP9r 4626 and passed MP 22.5 around 3:15 pm.

Train 514 with BLE 878 and CN 5459 (again) SB lite past MP 22.5 at 7:14 pm.

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M384? going by 15 mile

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TwisterJay29 wrote:M384? going by 15 mile
Through Mt. Clemens at 21:34. CN 5640, 2546, & 5799 with 107 cars.

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Southbound center beam loads crossing Van Horn Road in Woodhaven right now.
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149 by 205 a little after 8. I didnt see the power and it seemed like a long train.

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M383 through Wyandotte right now. 2 CNs leading.
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