CN Train Location Updates: July 2022

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Work Train stopped SB on Main 2 at Avery; Shoreline Sub, Detroit.

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Bridge Strike at I-94 Service Drive on Shoreline Sub, MP 52.4. Amtrak 353 will hold at Avery on Main 1.

CN Maintainers, Detroit Police, Michigan State Police on the scene.

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SB Train 515 with 5323 running in reverse just passed MP 22.5 on the Holly.

I have noticed with the reworking of trains and symbols we only have 515 (both ways) and 251 running on the South Holly during the day now most days. Until the change there would usually be one or two, sometimes three SB trains sitting in Pontiac waiting for Amtrak 351 to depart and follow it down the Hill most days. Trains like 116, 250, 450, a 280 or two.

Now all the trains are in the early evening or night. And fewer since they combined 514 with the old 451 from Lang that used to go by in the early evening in the form of 507/508 (note, local train numbers). It is more like the Great Recession days of 2009 when the Holly was down to one freight train a day, a local out of Pontiac that did all the intermodal work too.

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A492 east clear mp205 cam at 11:55. CN duo #3029 + #3838. Lot of stacks leading off before mixed freight, high majority being tanks.
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09:18 - WB P365 by MP 203
10:00 - EB A492 working at McAllister in BC
10:00 - WB L501 working Cory Yard
10:00 - WB M399 at E Flint
10:00 - EB M396 at Climax
10:43 - WB L501 with CN 5421/BCOL 4651/CN 8935 thru MP 203
11:45 - EB A492 with CN 3029/CN 3838 thru MP 203 - intermodal for Flint on the head end, set off by what I reported as E274 earlier in BC. That train was actually Z148
12:13 - WB M399 with CN 2232/CN 5622/CN 2642 thru MP 203
12:40 - WB Q123 intermodal/autorack working Cory Yard, setting off empty racks.

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Manistique wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:26 am
SB Train 515 with 5323 running in reverse just passed MP 22.5 on the Holly.

I have noticed with the reworking of trains and symbols we only have 515 (both ways) and 251 running on the South Holly during the day now most days. Until the change there would usually be one or two, sometimes three SB trains sitting in Pontiac waiting for Amtrak 351 to depart and follow it down the Hill most days. Trains like 116, 250, 450, a 280 or two.

Now all the trains are in the early evening or night. And fewer since they combined 514 with the old 451 from Lang that used to go by in the early evening in the form of 507/508 (note, local train numbers). It is more like the Great Recession days of 2009 when the Holly was down to one freight train a day, a local out of Pontiac that did all the intermodal work too.
CN went from having a bunch of trains running down the Holly all spring to less than ever. Today's EB A492 had 92 intermodal cars to set off in Flint for L508. That would have been a Q116 in 2021!

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I'm glad you guys are commenting on trains down the Holly Sub.

Until recently, a really good day on the Holly were 116, an extra intermodal either to or from Moterm (symbols like 189 for example), 251, 280, 450, 514 North, and 514 South. That's at least 5 trains per day for sure (116, 251, 450, 514N, and 514S), up to 7 trains per day if you add in a 280 and an extra intermodal, not to mention the 756 Sand Trains that used to run and a few other extra symbols that have ran such as 271, 296, 356, 401, 491, G807, G889, etc.

Now that 116 terminates in Battle Creek, with train 500 (or whatever symbol that may do it like 492 mentioned above) taking those cars to Flint, we have still 251, 450, 507, 508, and "maybe" a 280-type autorack train that doesn't run everyday, so what used to be 5 - 7 trains per day is now 4 - 5.

Someone correct me if any of this information is inaccurate but I think that is the current situation. Living 1/3 of a mile away in Linden and able to see trains from my upstairs window, the train count is down for sure. From a railfan perspective its a bummer, but from a business perspective with todays crew shortages, PTC, longer trains, cost cutting measures in a slowing economic climate, I get it.

The reality of CN in Michigan is the Mt. Clemens Sub and Holly Sub are both way under utilized. While I am certainly NOT advocating this, you "could" take the trains off the Mt. Clemens Sub (minus the local) and run them up and down the Flint and Holly Subs and the Holly sub would still be under utilized with plenty of capacity. Would those trains have a longer route, of course, but its just an observation. I remember the Holly Sub in the 1990s - 10 to 15 trains per day (I can list the symbols), but wow, what a change from back then. If you added the coal trains back in (760, 761, 762, and 763), that's 4 more per day right there. These trains still run, but as NS trains 880, 881, 882, and 883 between Trenton/Monroe and Chicago via Toledo and the NS mainline.

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NB 515 should be back in Pontiac Yard now.

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Southbound 508 by Linden at 7:32pm with 168 cars. Lots of intermodal.

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Southbound 450 with 2 BNSF units, by LInden at 8:07pm moving fast.

Sorry, didn't get a car count.

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Eastbound with IC 2703 & CN 26?? through East Lansing at 22:25

Inspection boxcar behind the power, stacks and. autoracks. Probably 122

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SB L533 lined out of PH Yard at 07:01 to head down the Clemens. CN 5413 is the power. about 15 minutes later, something on track one followed L533 SB on the Clemens. 383 or 385
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What I believe is 397 just arrived in Port Huron from Sarnia with CN 2982, CN 3940(ex CitiRail) and CN 3956(ex CitiRail).

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overnight cn flint sub review

20:10 - EB P364 thru Charlotte
21:56 - EB Q122 with IC 2703/CN 26## by the 205 cam.

00:32 - WB E251 with CN pair by the 205 cam.
03:08 - EB L500 with CN 8932/BCOL 4651 by the 205 cam - Lansing cars on the head end, then Durand set off, then intermodal, then cars for Flint, LSRC, then intermodal for moterm and cars for Lang. - they will pick up some loaded autoracks in Lansing for Lang as well. Those will be on the head end when they get to Durand.
03:38 - EB Z148 intermodal/autorack with CN pair by the 205 cam.
04:20 - EB G886 to Durand with CN 2336/CN 2560/CN 2845 f/f/f/ by the 205 cam.
06:30 - WB M397 with CN 2279/CN/CN and mid-DPU CN thru Charlotte.

06:45 - WB L501 finishing up work in Cory Yard
06:41 - EB G886 backing into Durand Yard using the PH Wye to set off the unit train of soybean loads for GLC/ZFS - all AOKX new Greenbrier 5201 cu ft maroon covered hoppers off of the WSOR interchange in Stringer, WI - There looks to be three elevators there off of WSOR that are big enough to push out a unit train - all under the Horizon Cooperative.
06:52 - WB Z149 thru Durand on M2 with CN 8852/CN 3932
07:09 - WB L501 with CN 3044/CN 2561 f/r - Lansing pickup on the head end (racks and empty lumber cars and box cars), Flint racks, Flint CN cars, LSRC cars and WBs out of Durand bringing up the rear thru Charlotte.
07:38 - EB G886 with CN 2336/CN 2560/CN 2845 departs Durand on the PH Wye power light to Flint.
07:57 - WB P365 arrives in Durand on M2. They picked up 13 loaded autoracks from Cory for Lang.
08:04 - EB L500 with CN 8932/BCOL 4651 arrives in Durand on M1.
08:13 - WB Z149 with CN 8852/CN 3932 thru Charlotte.
08:25 - WB A491 with CN 3029/CN 3838 by the 205 cam
09:20 - WB P365 thru Charlotte
10:20 - EB M302 with CN 3263/CN 3830 thru Charlotte
10:25 - EB L500 has backed onto their cars they set off at Vernon and is proceeding east to Flint
10:40 - EB M302 with CN 3263/CN 3830 thru East Lansing

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11:34 - EB M302 with CN 3263/CN 3830 thru Durand on M1

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What looked like 251 just passed MP 22.5 on the Holly heading to Pontiac Yard at 3:10 pm. It had two BNSF units as power and maybe a CN trailing.

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MarcD wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:08 am
What I believe is 397 just arrived in Port Huron from Sarnia with CN 2982, CN 3940(ex CitiRail) and CN 3956(ex CitiRail).
MarcD...What you saw was WB M399

15:16 - WB M399 with CN 2982/CN 3940/CN 3956 thru Charlotte

15:45 - EB M396 with CN 8808/CN 5722 thru Charlotte

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NB 515 with 5323 just passed MP 22.5 on the Holly on its way back to Pontiac Yard at 4:35 pm.

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CN 5787 south on Dearborn Sub approaching Oakwood Jct.

CN Painted 5850 north on Dearborn Sub approaching Schaefer Jct.

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SB 515 with 5323 passed MP 22.5 on the Holly at 10:00 am.

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