Re: Great Lakes Central Updates November 2017
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:30 am
Not 100 %, but sounded like northbound out of Cadillac around 0930. I haven't heard them since.
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Where is "Marit"? No such city, or is it a railroad name??GP-35 wrote:Big train coming from the north, They are recrewing at Marit this AM 41 cars. Should be around 70 cars when they go south. hopefully AARunner can cath them.
I believe he means Merit Energy, which I think is in the Kalkaska area, but I'm not sure.TC Man wrote:Where is "Marit"? No such city, or is it a railroad name??GP-35 wrote:Big train coming from the north, They are recrewing at Marit this AM 41 cars. Should be around 70 cars when they go south. hopefully AARunner can cath them.
Todd_F wrote:I believe he means Merit Energy, which I think is in the Kalkaska area, but I'm not sure.TC Man wrote:Where is "Marit"? No such city, or is it a railroad name??GP-35 wrote:Big train coming from the north, They are recrewing at Marit this AM 41 cars. Should be around 70 cars when they go south. hopefully AARunner can cath them.
I believe he means Merit Energy, which I think is in the Kalkaska area, but I'm not sure.[/quote][/quote]AARR wrote:Merit Energy is in McBain
Where is "Marit"? No such city, or is it a railroad name??
TC Man wrote:Viking Energy is in McBain. Merit Energy is indeed the place south of Kalkaska that gets the tank cars.AARR wrote:Merit Energy is in McBain
Where is "Marit"? No such city, or is it a railroad name?? I believe he means Merit Energy, which I think is in the Kalkaska area, but I'm not sure.
It's okay AARR, I mean you are getting OLD. LOL! Actually probably about the same as me...HMMM....AARR wrote:Oops You re correct TC Man I thought of McBain because of the number of cars GP35 said was in the consist. 40-70 car trains between Cadillac and Clare while not common have occurred. A 40 car train north of Cadillac is very rare.TC Man wrote:Viking Energy is in McBain. Merit Energy is indeed the place south of Kalkaska that gets the tank cars.AARR wrote:Merit Energy is in McBain
Where is "Marit"? No such city, or is it a railroad name?? I believe he means Merit Energy, which I think is in the Kalkaska area, but I'm not sure.
I don't know when those centerbeams slipped past us. I looked at the tracks yesterday and again today. They have about a week or so of rust on them.TC Man wrote: There are 2 empty center beams at Amerhart in Williamsburg. Not sure when they arrived as loads....
They may have been dropped more than a week ago?Pixl wrote:I don't know when those centerbeams slipped past us. I looked at the tracks yesterday and again today. They have about a week or so of rust on them.TC Man wrote: There are 2 empty center beams at Amerhart in Williamsburg. Not sure when they arrived as loads....
Nice job on that video, thanksAANscaleRunner wrote:Left Cadillac for Clare at 0900.
Here they are going through Lucas at 0915.