CN Train Location Updates - June 2022

[GTW6401]

251 crossing over from 1 to 2 at Johnson Avenue.

514 is at Auburn.

[LansingRailFan]

251 crossing over from 1 to 2 at Johnson Avenue.

514 is at Auburn.

Do we know if E251 is stopping in Pontiac or containing?

[aflkproductions]

251 through Trenton at 13:32 BNSF CN CN CN CN CN BNSF CN

This 8 locomotive 251 is passing MP 22.5 on the Holly at 4:45 pm.

What is the lead BNSFs unit #?

[GTW6401]

514 crossed over to 2. Going by MAL Junction now with CN 5433 & 5441.

[Man o' War]

L533S leaving Mount Clemens for Detroit at 17:00 with a huge train. Many boxcars, loaded and empty lumber cars, several tanks and loaded scrap metal gons. Smells an awful lot like 383 overflow traffic. Lone SD60 was struggling a bit to get them up the grade south of the Clinton River valley.

Man o' War

[GTW6401]

251 is going recrew in Pontiac. On duty at 1600.

The consist is BNSF 9289, CN 8012 2626 5670 3135 8018, BNSF 3993 and CN 5620.

[Man o' War]

M385 rolling through Mount Clemens at 50 per. CN/CN/CN. 17:20.

Man o' War

[LansingRailFan]

17:05 - EB 2-unit A450 by the 205 cam with CN pair. These old SD75is are so dirty it's hard to make out the unit numbers on the cam! 39 or 40 coil loads tonight.

[atrainguy60]

17:05 - EB 2-unit A450 by the 205 cam with CN pair. These old SD75is are so dirty it's hard to make out the unit numbers on the cam! 39 or 40 coil loads tonight.

Do you know what customer the steel coils are for? I've been noticing the large cuts of coil cars lately, both north and southbound, and have been curious about them since I'm out of the loop.

[AARR]

I think one of the destinations is CR's North Yard. They might be handling some from the steel mill on Zug Island, too.

17:05 - EB 2-unit A450 by the 205 cam with CN pair. These old SD75is are so dirty it's hard to make out the unit numbers on the cam! 39 or 40 coil loads tonight.

Do you know what customer the steel coils are for? I've been noticing the large cuts of coil cars lately, both north and southbound, and have been curious about them since I'm out of the loop.

[GTW6401]

251 is still working in the yard in Pontiac.

513 is also in the yard working with GTW 5932.

[Manistique]

I think one of the destinations is CR's North Yard. They might be handling some from the steel mill on Zug Island, too.

17:05 - EB 2-unit A450 by the 205 cam with CN pair. These old SD75is are so dirty it's hard to make out the unit numbers on the cam! 39 or 40 coil loads tonight.

Do you know what customer the steel coils are for? I've been noticing the large cuts of coil cars lately, both north and southbound, and have been curious about them since I'm out of the loop.

Train 515 has been picking up a lot of coiled steel cars at the CR interchange track at East Yard/North Yard for a number of years now. These are all covered cars so I don't know which way the loads are coming or going.

It has been reported earlier that the SB steel cars that are uncovered and coming from Chicago area on through freights are going to Great Lake Steel in Ecorse. Don't know what they are doing with them there. They used to flat roll hot ingots of steel there at one time at the long building next to the park and Detroit Edison's Riverview Power plant, coil them and load them onto freight cars there years ago. Sometimes these open loaded steel cars head back to Chicago on trains and someone reported those are rejected coils from Ecorse.

[GTW6401]

450 at Holly.

[Man o' War]

L533N by North Mount at 18:45. 2 loaded boxcars.

Man o' War

[GTWChris]

I think one of the destinations is CR's North Yard. They might be handling some from the steel mill on Zug Island, too.

17:05 - EB 2-unit A450 by the 205 cam with CN pair. These old SD75is are so dirty it's hard to make out the unit numbers on the cam! 39 or 40 coil loads tonight.

Do you know what customer the steel coils are for? I've been noticing the large cuts of coil cars lately, both north and southbound, and have been curious about them since I'm out of the loop.

Blast furnaces and hot strip line are closed at Great Lakes Works in Ecorse. The pickle line, temper mill, and galvanizing line are still in operation. Rolled steel is needed for these operations. Since the hot line was shut down, coils haved moved from Gary Works to Great Lakes Works via NS. More and more of this traffic is moving via CN.

[GTW6401]

507 at Scott Lake Road with CN 8931 and 5671.

Going ahead of 251 and 450 is waiting in Holly

[KC8RBK]

Cn 3111/2864 eb by 205 at 1941 with mixed freight. Some new cn hoppers and structural beam.

[LansingRailFan]

Cn 3111/2864 eb by 205 at 1941 with mixed freight. Some new cn hoppers and structural beam.

EB M394 - Only 394/397 and 492/491 have blocks of BNSF covered hoppers, and 394/7 usually have larger ones. it's bentonite clay. 394/397 also have the blocks of the black gons with white lids and carloads of metal ingots.

[atrainguy60]

Thanks guys for the info! Good to see more business rolling on the Holly Sub, even if it's only tacked onto existing trains.

[KC8RBK]

Wb manifest by 205 at 2136 with 3 cn. 614 axles