GLC Updates July 2018
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- Railroadfan...fan
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
390 and 396 currently switching North Yard. No indication as to which way they may be headed today.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Southbound out of Cadillac around 0930.
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Looks like it was a quick trip to McBain and back. 4 gons and 1 centerbeam which were in North Yard are now gone. Assuming TC bound within the last 20 minutes.
Re: GLC Updates July 2018
AANscaleRunner wrote:Looks like it was a quick trip to McBain and back. 4 gons and 1 centerbeam which were in North Yard are now gone. Assuming TC bound within the last 20 minutes.
Currently at Beacon with 4 empties, 6 loads, and a lumber load.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Headed to Williamsburg with the center beam. They took 5 loads from Beacon today. Also pushed the TSBY box car farther down the Grawn branch a few hundred feet to give them more switching lead room.TC Man wrote:AANscaleRunner wrote:Looks like it was a quick trip to McBain and back. 4 gons and 1 centerbeam which were in North Yard are now gone. Assuming TC bound within the last 20 minutes.
Currently at Beacon with 4 empties, 6 loads, and a lumber load.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Owosso crew ran to Middleton today.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1145.
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- James Sofonia
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Here is some video of yesterdays run to Beacon in Traverse city.
Note the little red sign in the middle of the tracks in the 2nd video. I think is says end line or something like that. Well now it is definitively the end as they have pulled the spikes on the rail just beyond it and it is laying on it's side.
Note the little red sign in the middle of the tracks in the 2nd video. I think is says end line or something like that. Well now it is definitively the end as they have pulled the spikes on the rail just beyond it and it is laying on it's side.
Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Also all public grade crossing beyond Beacon now have "Exempt" on the crossbucks.Pixl wrote:Here is some video of yesterdays run to Beacon in Traverse city.
Note the little red sign in the middle of the tracks in the 2nd video. I think is says end line or something like that. Well now it is definitively the end as they have pulled the spikes on the rail just beyond it and it is laying on it's side.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Returned to Cadillac at 1720.
Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.
Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.
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14 TSBY hoppers for Beacon in TC. To meet the torch...AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1720.
Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Maybe I’ll be able to catch a over 10 car train in tcTC Man wrote:14 TSBY hoppers for Beacon in TC. To meet the torch...AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1720.
Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.
Re: GLC Updates July 2018
There have been several this year- I've caught 10, 16, 21 car trains with revenue cars and cuts of these cars for scrap.TC railman wrote:Maybe I’ll be able to catch a over 10 car train in tcTC Man wrote:14 TSBY hoppers for Beacon in TC. To meet the torch...AANscaleRunner wrote:Returned to Cadillac at 1720.
Here they are moving from Selma Yard to North Yard.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
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TC railman wrote:Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
They don't have time to go to Petoskey and TC in one day.
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Nope. Consist today was:TC railman wrote:Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
GLC 390
GLC 396
6 Plastics Hoppers
8 Cement Hoppers
2 Tanks
I chased them from Cadillac to Kalkaska and got some good video for my YouTube. I'll put the video here when I have it uploaded.
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
MiRailProductions wrote:Nope. Consist today was:TC railman wrote:Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?MiRailProductions wrote:Running up to Petoskey today. GLC 390 and 396 leading the way, leaving North Yard at 09:10.
GLC 390
GLC 396
6 Plastics Hoppers
8 Cement Hoppers
2 Tanks
I chased them from Cadillac to Kalkaska and got some good video for my YouTube. I'll put the video here when I have it uploaded.
Also, something worth noting. They really fly on this line! It looked like they were doing 40+ north of Manton, we were doing 60 and were just barely passing them!
I know the plastics hoppers for the transloads south of petoskey, cement hopper for the Elmira cement plant and where the two tank cars destine to?
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
The tank cars are going to Magnum Transload in Kalkaska.railrod1949 wrote:MiRailProductions wrote:Nope. Consist today was:TC railman wrote: Did they bring the scrap hoppers by chance to head to tc on there way back?
GLC 390
GLC 396
6 Plastics Hoppers
8 Cement Hoppers
2 Tanks
I chased them from Cadillac to Kalkaska and got some good video for my YouTube. I'll put the video here when I have it uploaded.
Also, something worth noting. They really fly on this line! It looked like they were doing 40+ north of Manton, we were doing 60 and were just barely passing them!
I know the plastics hoppers for the transloads south of petoskey, cement hopper for the Elmira cement plant and where the two tank cars destine to?
"If you are ever chasing trains, you're bound to end up on a 2-lane, double-striped road with a slow poke in front of you." -Danny Harmon
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- James Sofonia
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Re: GLC Updates July 2018
Back before Beacon started rail up again, I seem to remember someone posting in here that they do on occasion go both Northern branches making a long day. Might have been coming up on a holiday and they wanted to get cars out.TC Man wrote:
They don't have time to go to Petoskey and TC in one day.