Great Lakes Central Updates May 2020

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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MiRailProductions wrote:GLC OSTN south at Durand 1330. 392 leading. Looks like traffic for both AnnPere and Osmer.
Sweet, thanks for the heads up. Waiting in Howell for it.

Edit: went by the depot at approximately 2:30
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Leaving Clare at 14:22.
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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0910.

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Southbound leaving Clare for Owosso at 1440.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:Southbound leaving Clare for Owosso at 1440.
329 and 393 working the Ithaca bean plant. Looks like they're about ready to leave. 1710

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Returned to Cadillac at 1730. One load of lumber for TC included.

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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0930.


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Nb with 2 units between Shepard and Mt pleasant. 7 empty beam cars. Another empty in clare. 1258

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Returned to Cadillac at 1640.


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Through Fife Lake at 20:00. Saw it from the lake. No video, as my camera has no good zoom and the other person on my boat was being obnoxious.
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The four tank cars on the head end were either methanol or empties for leachate
AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1640.
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Nothing seen or heard on the south side of Cadillac as of 1000. Was a load of lumber sitting in Tufford Yard this morning waiting to go to TC.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:Nothing seen or heard on the south side of Cadillac as of 1000. Was a load of lumber sitting in Tufford Yard this morning waiting to go to TC.
I think they did make it here to TC, today my wife heard the horns blow about a mile away on the Williamsburg branch. Later in the day I was in town and saw the Airport Rd. crossing lights stuck on and flashing. Must have been after the train passed to go back to Cadillac.

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Had a nice chase this morning from Durand to Owosso power was the 393, 396, 392 i think? it might've been the 390 and trailing was the 329. Good sized train i didn't count but i noticed three PC green gondola's loaded with scrap ties.

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My mother heard the horns from Walton Road about 10:00. Never heard them go back, and I was sitting in Manton from 3 to 7, albiet on a side of town I might not have heard them well from.
Pixl wrote:. Later in the day I was in town and saw the Airport Rd. crossing lights stuck on and flashing.
Which set on S. Airport got stuck? Whatever the case, it seems like that's been happening a lot lately, and it wouldn't surprise me if that set got modernized soon.
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penn central wrote:Had a nice chase this morning from Durand to Owosso power was the 393, 396, 392 i think? it might've been the 390 and trailing was the 329. Good sized train i didn't count but i noticed three PC green gondola's loaded with scrap ties.
392 was the third unit. Tail end of their set off for CSX went by the house at 04:30 this morning, and then biked over to the north side of town to watch them leave Howell at 06:10 with 78 cars. 50 or more were pick up cars from CSX at Ann Pere.

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KingsleyRailFan wrote:
Pixl wrote:. Later in the day I was in town and saw the Airport Rd. crossing lights stuck on and flashing.
Which set on S. Airport got stuck? Whatever the case, it seems like that's been happening a lot lately, and it wouldn't surprise me if that set got modernized soon.
The branch that comes up from the outside world (Kingsley). Yes I've seen that crossing stuck on often. The other crossings in town seem to work ok.

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Last year before the BATA buses switched to a new radio system, I'd hear whenever the crossing got stuck on. Eventually the dispatcher got sick of the drivers asking about it, and started every radio with transmission with "yes, the railroad crossing is stuck on, go ahead"
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KingsleyRailFan wrote:My mother heard the horns from Walton Road about 10:00. Never heard them go back, and I was sitting in Manton from 3 to 7, albiet on a side of town I might not have heard them well from.
Pixl wrote:. Later in the day I was in town and saw the Airport Rd. crossing lights stuck on and flashing.
Which set on S. Airport got stuck? Whatever the case, it seems like that's been happening a lot lately, and it wouldn't surprise me if that set got modernized soon.
GLC left TC around 4pm on Friday, or a bit earlier.
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395 and 397 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0855 with 20 cars.

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