Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
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- Railroadfan...fan
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Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1055.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0955.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Returned to Cadillac at 1600.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1000.
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395 and 398 returned to Cadillac at 1430 with around 20 tie gons, 6 cement hoppers and 1 gon for Beacon. Got to watch them from about four blocks away. Around 1230 I heard horns on the north end of town. I'm assuming it was the stranded Mancelona power coming south. Tufford Yard now has a ballast/Beacon train for TC and plastics/cement for the Petoskey branch. I fully expect a northern run tomorrow. Too bad I'm working.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
A couple units working in Oakley 1012. Currently just west of m52
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
They're currently blasting their horn through Kingsley, sounds like 382 is back.
Consistently confused
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1200.
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10 plastic pellets cars and 15 cement cars among others
AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1200.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Mancelona hospital train leaving Cadillac southbound at 1100. Traveling around 10 mph.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Happy Veterans Day. Leaving Cadillac at 1100.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Elmira at 0905. A balmy 18 degrees out today.
Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
AANR, you are tough .
Interesting they used one of the cement cars as a spacer. I don't think mty LPG tank cars require a spacer between the engine, perhaps I'm mistaken. Or maybe they use the cement car to keep the engines of the siding when they park them north of Kalkaska then pick them up southbound on their way to switch the gas plant south of town.
Interesting they used one of the cement cars as a spacer. I don't think mty LPG tank cars require a spacer between the engine, perhaps I'm mistaken. Or maybe they use the cement car to keep the engines of the siding when they park them north of Kalkaska then pick them up southbound on their way to switch the gas plant south of town.
AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Elmira at 0905. A balmy 18 degrees out today.
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Unless properly cleaned, the tank cars still carry a hazardous placard.AARR wrote:AANR, you are tough .
Interesting they used one of the cement cars as a spacer. I don't think mty LPG tank cars require a spacer between the engine, perhaps I'm mistaken. Or maybe they use the cement car to keep the engines of the siding when they park them north of Kalkaska then pick them up southbound on their way to switch the gas plant south of town.AANscaleRunner wrote:Leaving Cadillac for Elmira at 0905. A balmy 18 degrees out today.
- SD80MAC
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Hazardous tanks are still considered hazardous unless they are fully cleaned and the placards are removed. Otherwise they are a "residue car" which still requires at least 1 buffer car between a locomotive or an occupied caboose.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Thanks DaveO and SD80
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Looks like maybe a smaller unit train working the bean plant in ithaca. One unit parked on the main north of the switch and another in the siding moving around some new looking covered hoppers 1730
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1120. Caught them at Seeley Rd and Euclid St in McBain.
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Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0955.
Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2019
Doesn't seem like many coke cars are being shipped
And it seems like feed cars are up
And it seems like feed cars are up
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...