GLNRR

[atrainguy60]

The Great Lakes Northern Railroad is the railroad that was formed when the PMRR and the M&GLRR merged together to form a new railroad. The excursion trains that the M&GL wanted to run from GR to Lowell will still happen. The PMRR had some ex Metra cars in storage in Cadillac, so some of those will be used for the excursion train. I will list a roster and a list of trains will be made soon. Here is the map.

The orange is of course the GLN.

[atrainguy60]

M100 Saginaw-Toledo Mixed Freight Daily
M101 Toledo-Saginaw Mixed Freight Daily
M102 GR-Toledo Mixed Freight Daily
M103 Toledo-GR Mixed Freight Daily
M104 Rougemere-Chicago Mixed Freight Daily
M105 Chicago-Rougemere Mixed Freight Daily
M106 Rougemere-Stanley Yard Mixed Freight Daily
M107 Stanley Yard-Rougemere Mixed Freight Daily
M108 Rougemere-Walbridge Autorack Daily
M109 Walbridge-Rougemere Autorack Daily
M010 GR-Chicago Mixed Freight Daily
M011 Chicago-GR Mixed Freight Daily
M012 Frankfort-Toledo Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M013 Toledo-Frankfort Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M014 Durand-Muskegon Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M015 Muskegon-Durand Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M016 Ferndale-Muskegon Intermodal Monday-Saturday
M017 Muskegon-Ferndale Intermodal Monday-Saturday
M018 Mackinaw City-Toledo Mixed Freight Daily
M019 Toledo-Mackinaw City Mixed Freight Daily
M020 Rougemere-Walbridge Mixed Freight Daily
M021 Walbridge-Rougemere Mixed Freight Daily
M022 Chicago-Livernois Yard Intermodal Daily
M023 Livernois Yard-Chicago Intermodal Daily
M024 Rougemere-Chicago Autorack Daily
M025 Chicago-Rougemere Autorack Daily
M026 Saginaw-Port Huron Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M027 Port Huron-Saginaw Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M028 Saginaw-Chicago Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday
M029 Chicago-Saginaw Mixed Freight Monday-Saturday

Locals:

L100 Midland-Saginaw Daily
L101 Saginaw-Flint Monday-Friday
L102 Flint-Wixom Monday-Friday
L103 Wixom-Plymouth Daily
L104 Plymouth-Rougemere Daily
L105 Plymouth-Toledo Daily
L106 Lansing-Plymouth Daily
L107 Lansing-GR Daily
L108 GR-New Buffalo Monday-Saturday
L109 Richmond-Pontiac Daily
L110 Pontiac-Jackson Daily
L111 Ypsilanti-Jackson Daily
L112 Jackson-Kalamazoo Daily
L113 Lansing-Jackson Daily
L114 Ludington-Baldwin Monday-Friday
L115 Baldwin-GR Monday-Friday
L116 Manistee-Walhalla Monday-Wednesday-Friday
L117 Muskegon-Lowell Daily
L118 Lowell-Durand Monday-Saturday
L119 Cadillac-TC As needed
L120 Cadillac-Petosky As needed
L121 Cadillac-Frankfort Monday-Saturday
L122 Cadillac-Owosso Daily
L123 Owosso-Durand Monday-Friday
L124 Greenville-Lowell Monday-Saturday
L125 Port Huron-Marine City Daily

Yard Jobs(All are daily):

Y100 Grand Rapids
Y101 Muskegon
Y102 Lowell
Y103 Cadillac
Y104 Frankfort
Y105 Ludington
Y106 Owosso
Y107 Durand
Y108 Saginaw
Y109 Mackinaw City
Y110 Rougemere
Y111 Plymouth
Y112 New Boston
Y113 Wayne
Y114 Grand Rapids
Y115 Grand Rapids

[atrainguy60]

Roster:

15 SD40-2's 1000-1015
15 C40-8's 1016-1031
4 SD50's 1032-1036
22 Gensets 7000-7022
6 GP60's 5000-5006
8 GP30's 5007-5015
2 SD40's 1037-1039
8 GP35's 4000-4008
6 GP38's 4009-4017
4 GP7's 4018-4022
10 ALCo's 4022-4032
6 SW9's 8000-8006

[atrainguy60]

I made a mistake in the map. I forgot to add the line between Gaylord to Mackinaw City.

[Saturnalia]

The Great Lakes Northern Railroad is the railroad that was formed when the PMRR and the M&GLRR merged together to form a new railroad. The excursion trains that the M&GL wanted to run from GR to Lowell will still happen. The PMRR had some ex Metra cars in storage in Cadillac, so some of those will be used for the excursion train. I will list a roster and a list of trains will be made soon. Here is the map.

The orange is of course the GLN.

MONOPOLY!

[atrainguy60]

Lol

[atrainguy60]

A wye will be put in on the northwest side of the diamonds in Flint where the GLNRR crosses the CN Flint Sub by the Amtrak station. This will be for some new intermodal trains that will start running from Muskegon to the new Flint Intermodal Terminal that is being built at the old buick city. The trains will run on the former M&GL tracks and then turn on the Port Huron Wye in Durand and go to Flint via CN, then turn north at the new wye and go to the GLN's large yard in the north side of Flint. The intermodal terminal will be finished sometime in mid summer.

[atrainguy60]

Subdivisions:

Saginaw-Plymouth: Saginaw Subdivision
Midland-Saginaw: Midland Subdivision
Bay City-Saginaw: Bay City Subdivision
Bay City-Mackinaw City: Mackinaw Subdivision
Piconning-Alpena: Huron Subdivision
Rougemere-Plymouth: Detroit Subdivision
Plymouth-Lansing: Plymouth Subdivision
Lansing-GR: Lansing Subdivision
GR-Porter: Grand Rapids Subdivision
GR-Ludington: Ludington Subdivision
Walhalla-Manistee: Manistee Subdivision
Osmer-Durand: Ann Arbor Subdivision
Durand-Muskegon: St Johns Subdivision
Lowell-Greenville: Greenville Subdivision
Owosso-Cadillac: Cadillac Subdivision
Cadillac-Frankfort: Frankfort Subdivision
Cadillac-Petoskey: Petoskey Subdivision
Fife Lake-TC: Traverse City Subdivision
Lansing-Jackson: Jackson Subdivision
Ypsilanti-Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Subdivision

[atrainguy60]

The large GLNRR yard in northern Flint, just north of the buick city grounds, has been used mostly for storage since 2000. In 2000, PMRR moved most operations to Saginaw, but kept some offices in Flint, and some locals originated there. Once the intermodal terminal is finished, the yard will be the origin/terminating point for new intermodal trains. The trains going to Flint will stop at the yard, and some switcher engines(probably gensets) will start taking the cars to the terminal for loading or unlading. The containers that have been unloaded will then be put on trucks. Triple Crown is looking to see if there is room for a new facility for them there, too. This project will bring over 600 jobs to the Flint area. CN is going to acquire trackage rights on the GLN from the Flint Sub to the GLN intermodal yard. There may be foreign power on some of the trains, such as UP and BNSF on trains from the west coast that CN took in Chicago, and CSX and maybe NS from Toledo.

[atrainguy60]

The GLN has ordered 10 HLCX SD40-2's.

[Saturnalia]

The GLN has ordered 10 HLCX SD40-2's.

Bah! You should've gone for some of MQTX's SD40-2s (I still haven't gotten around to announcing that, have I )

[atrainguy60]

Lol, if I was in the organized paper railroads, I might order some MQTX's now.

[Saturnalia]

Lol, if I was in the organized paper railroads, I might order some MQTX's now.

Stupid me, I forgot which thread this was.....

[atrainguy60]

I have added to the train list the yard jobs and the days the trains operate.

[Saturnalia]

Only 1 Wyoming Yard Job? Two end jobs and then the northend (servicing mainly the transload area) run both First, Second, and even Third Trick in real-life

[atrainguy60]

I fixed the list. There is now three yard jobs at Wyoming.

[Saturnalia]

I fixed the list. There is now three yard jobs at Wyoming.

Ahh...that looks right. BTW, they are: East End Yard Job, West End Yard Job and North end Yard Job

[atrainguy60]

Busy right now on the Plymouth Sub. A EB CP ethanol train is currently in Lansing, with a DME, a ICE, and a SOO leading. A WB intermodal CP is in East Lansing in the main waiting for the Ethanol train to get onto the siding there, with two CP loco's leading. The ethanol will stop on the siding in East Lansing, and the intermodal will continue west. M022 is right behind the ethanol and will park at Ensel Yard, two SD40-2's, waiting for the traffic to get out of the way. M023 is going through Meridian, one C40-8 and a SD50. There is a WB CP mixed freight in Williamston now too, with one CP engine leading. A WB empty Essexville coal train is in Webberville now with two BNSF dash 9's leading. And finally, a WB CP autorack is in Fowlerville with a CEFX and a CP leading.

[atrainguy60]

It is official, there will be Triple Crown trailers being loaded and unloaded in Flint. A small part of the intermodal terminal will be for Triple Crown. From the looks of it, CN will have two Triple Crown trains a day, one each way, going to/from Toronto and Flint. GLN will also have some of the Triple Crown business, but it's unknown right now how frequent the trains will be on the GLN.