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CN Geometry Car is at Milwaukee Junction.

387 is at East Yard.

251 is out of Flat Rock.

Amtrak 353 is at Royal Oak.

251 just came thru Royal Oak about 10 minutes ago and it sounds like 104 is at Moterm.

2:55pm, CN Geometry Car headed north after sitting at 9 Mile Rd.

Went up to Pt Huron yesterday. Caught 383 coming out of the tunnel from Canada, with a short train, around 8:00. They had a setoff and a pickup. Caught another train coming off the Mt Clemens sub, and going into Canada.
Later, a trainmaster called 383 and asked them what the delay was. They said there was no delay. Just that they had a setoff and a pickup. Nothing more was said.
I headed south and stopped in St Clair to watch a ship go by. Then I headed west, and down gratiot to Richmond. No sign of 383. Continued south to New Haven, and found 383 in the siding at Haven. They were waiting for 382 and 384, which was supposed to be hot on 382s tail. 382 came north through New Haven around 11:00. 384 finally came north through New Haven around 11:35, going pretty fast. Within minutes 383s headlight was on and they pulled out of the siding, going real slow through New Haven, with a huge train. He must have had a huge pickup in Pt Huron, because his train was much longer than he came from Canada with. I guess he was going slow, getting his train through the switch and out of the siding. When he cleared the crossing, I headed back to Gratiot, but could not get ahead of 383,despite driving 60mph down Gratiot. He was on the crossing at every side road I passed. He must have slowed down going through Mt Clemens, and I got ahead of him. He finally got to East yard, and was cleared down to Conant around midnight, four hours after arriving in Pt Huron. He was in the siding at Haven for over an hour.

sounds like Geometry Car is in the yard waiting on a re-crew.

Make that the Pontiac yard and it is near the yard offices.

I just heard something blowing for crossings here in Waterford not sure what it was. wonder if that Geometry Car headed north.

Here is a run-down from yesterday.

391 had the IC 2712 and CN 5796.North through Wyandotte around 4pm..Met 502 at Ecorse.

502 had the CN 2547,IC 1009,and CN 57xx..Mostly auto racks with a few 89' box cars

506 had the CN 5373 and CN 2401.They ran around their train and held at Ecorse for 382 and 384.

382 ran as lite power from Toledo to East yard...CN 5742 and CN 5790.

384 had the CN 5524,IC 1009,and CN 2409

From Ken Lanovich, there have been train symbol changes on South bend and flint subs
398 is now terminating at Kirk Yard and 332 is originating at Kirk Yard and is traveling down the GTW

766 is headed up the Flint Sub from Battle Creek.

Another busy moment at King Rd on Dearborn Sub. Three jobs there at same time. 4915 going south with NS transfer. 4920 lite. And 5820 lite as well.

Got a 397

Sounds like track test cars also, Asking permition on the South Bend Sub. from Emmett

This is a track foreman looking to inspect crossovers.

BNSF 763 Warbonett is working what I bleive to be a 251?

Looks like 397 is sitting on the Fule Pad Main One

Got some East Bound action headed for the Creek.

Sounds like 4 Trains headed this way.

Anybody know what the traffic levels are like on the South Bend sub these days? Are there any particular days that are better than others to catch a lot of trains?

Thanks.

Any updates on 766?

trainman_20 wrote:Anybody know what the traffic levels are like on the South Bend sub these days? Are there any particular days that are better than others to catch a lot of trains?

Thanks.

You may want to report this in the Railfanning Information threads

399 has CN 2409 leading
still on the Halton sub

Ran into town for a few minuts.

Caught 251 with BNSF 763 leaving

Caught 332 hitting the yard with an SD70M-2 on point. Then 260 just after that.

trainman_20 wrote:Anybody know what the traffic levels are like on the South Bend sub these days? Are there any particular days that are better than others to catch a lot of trains?

Thanks.

The South Bend sub is really off and on. They have added a new train that seems to be daily, The 332.

Any way, Sundays are usually Dead untill late in the day, Then Mondays seem to be hopping.

Over all traffic is up but it's still hit and miss.

6:15pm, 391 departed Moterm. CN 5783-IC 1009-CN 2547-GTW 4903.