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Heard them northbound out of Cadillac at 1030.

AANscaleRunner wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:51 am

Heard them northbound out of Cadillac at 1030.

Was not Traverse City.

Hearing them leave Cadillac for Clare at 1145. No opportunity to see them.

396 and 399 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1130.

Nb working the Ithaca bean plant at 1229. Loaded beam car on the tail. Possible traverse city car?

KC8RBK wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 05, 2022 12:30 pm

Nb working the Ithaca bean plant at 1229. Loaded beam car on the tail. Possible traverse city car?

When I crossed the Middleton district and there was a hi railer west of 127. I'd postulate a run out there soon

AANscaleRunner wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:42 am

396 and 399 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1130.

By Temple at 1427

Back towards Cadillac by M-61 at 1722

393 and 395 into Cadillac from Clare approximately 1830.

Sb working the Ithaca bean plant at 1950

OSTN NB at Durand at 02:51 with 386/383/390/382 - good cut of TSBY hoppers on the head end.

GLC CNTN on the ground in Kalkaska last night. Billed as a "slight" derailment downtown.

3 units working at Ithaca bean plant. Large set off on the main. Nothing else with them besides cars fur Zeeland 1356

LansingRailFan wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:27 am

GLC CNTN on the ground in Kalkaska last night. Billed as a "slight" derailment downtown.

Engines back on rails and cleared. They derailed at a location where they'd recently corrected the road.

Just as a point of clarification concerning the Kalkaska incident. No power was involved in the incident, and the actual incident site has not seen any TLC work in quite some time. Though I suspect it will see some work now. Also, I cannot attest to what the scene looked like once re-rail personnel arrived, or did once they arrived in the morning.

KCS KNOCKE TOWER wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 1:12 am

Just as a point of clarification concerning the Kalkaska incident. No power was involved in the incident, and the actual incident site has not seen any TLC work in quite some time. Though I suspect it will see some work now. Also, I cannot attest to what the scene looked like once re-rail personnel arrived, or did once they arrived in the morning.

There is a short video in the comments on the Kalkaska Department of Public Safety Facebook page. I am unable to post the link.

AANscaleRunner wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:41 am

KCS KNOCKE TOWER wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 1:12 am

Just as a point of clarification concerning the Kalkaska incident. No power was involved in the incident, and the actual incident site has not seen any TLC work in quite some time. Though I suspect it will see some work now. Also, I cannot attest to what the scene looked like once re-rail personnel arrived, or did once they arrived in the morning.

There is a short video in the comments on the Kalkaska Department of Public Safety Facebook page. I am unable to post the link.

AANscalerunner, I went to the public safety facebook page and watched a 27 second video. What do we glean from this? You are watching static train pics, those locomotives aren't on the ground, just two of the cars are at that point in time. The event happened at 0020 hrs, and the cars in question were number 15 and 16 of a 20 car train. What your looking at if your looking at this video as proof positive of what happened, 7 hrs after the incident, is what was staged to help the re-rail personnel. Anything after, in time, to this video I have no knowledge of what the railroad personnel did or how they went about there tasks. But I can tell you with 100% certainty that the locomotives never touched the ground, and the location has not been, prior to the incident, touched for maintenence for quite some time.

Sorry, I shoulda figured out how to use the quote thing before I went and posted, but this was in rebuttal to Kinsley fan saying what happened with the power and the location. I will strive to do better going forward when I post.

I'm not trying to start anything here, just trying to put the facts out there as best I'm able to.

GLC 395 leading in TC light power with 393 now

GLC OSTN SB at Durand with 383/386 and six cars. 4 empty pipe flats for AA and probably two hoppers for Rhetech.

Eb on Middleton district 4 miles west of 127 1727