Grand Traverse Dinner train

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:29 pm

the dinner train is sitting in south yard in Durand waiting to be picked up and taken west, the new initials for the train is CESX.

Stitch · Unread post by **Stitch** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:00 am

Is there an easy way to get a picture of it or is it buried in Railroad property? Any idea when it will be leaving?

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:05 am

well when i saw it last in sun light as long as you have a little zoom you could get it, but not sure now HESR was switching the yard. and im not sure but hoping tomorrow.

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:15 am

Thanks for the news about the train!!

hobojim · Unread post by **hobojim** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:37 am

When did it cease to opperate? I took the lunch train back in 98 while on vacation. It had a nice view of the East Bay. The lunch train went East toward Acme whereas the dinner train went south toward Walton Junction.

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:59 pm

sounds like the train will be split apart andbe on the head end of 501 the engines are suppose to leave between 4-5 and the same goes for the coaches but they will leave tomorrow.

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:26 pm

Picking them up right now!!

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:59 pm

Well, kind of..... 501 had the 2 units almost to their train and the dispatcher
told them to put them back. not before a few people got pic's though.

hobojim · Unread post by **hobojim** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:19 pm

I walked over to the yard and was photographing the whole train when the engines arrived to pick it up. As said earlier, they took them to the train and then bought them back. As of an hour ago they were still in the yard.

Stitch · Unread post by **Stitch** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:38 pm

How are they going to leave Southbound on CSX to Toledo? Or is CN picking them up and then Southbound or are they going to Chicago?

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:41 pm

cn will be picking them up in Durand.

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:06 pm

The units went West on 501 tonight

http://members.boardhost.com/misl/msg/1193191566.html

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:09 pm

thats weird they were end to end.

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:39 am

Ron said they were at the BC fuel dock yesterday morning.

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:22 pm

and left BC this afternoon

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:41 pm

the cars were picked up on 707

jukeman · Unread post by **jukeman** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:04 am

Wow, and after Lansing it would have had empty coal cars behind them.
what a site that would have been.

GLC 392 · Unread post by **GLC 392** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:54 am

coal cars infont of it, the passenger cars on the back, thats even more of a site.

GreatLakesRailfan · Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:33 pm

Oh crap. I might've just missed them going through Mishawaka yesterday...wished I would've known that coal train was more than a coal train, I might not have tried to take a short cut around the traffic mess it caused...

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