CN Train Location Updates - January 2024

[GTW6401]

14:17 - NB S756 61 with CN 8952 (GTW HU) leading/CN 8859 trailing is at Coolidge.

I see now that "Coolidge" was not referring to NB at Coolidge Hwy & 14 Mile in Royal Oak, otherwise I would have ran over to Pontiac Amtrak to catch my favorite locomotive. I had assumed I had already missed it passing through Pontiac by the time I read that at around 14:45.

I take it that "Coolidge" is a reference to somewhere downriver, or at least somewhere down in Wayne County. Live and learn! Maybe I can catch it when it comes back to Holly Sub weeks/months from now.

The control point Coolidge is in River Rouge. Its basically where CN enters the Shared Assets.

Now for the road name. It's Coolidge down to 8 Mile, then becomes Schaefer in Detroit and Dearborn.

Schaefer becomes Coolidge again in River Rouge. It ends at West Jefferson Avenue.

It was also once called Dearborn Road in River Rouge, which is how the former Dearoad Yard got its name.

[Manistique]

116 passed MP 22.5 at 12:30 pm. Longer train today so maybe no room to fill it out with empty racks.

And just as 116 cleared, 251 is going past at 12:33 pm. Next up, NB 515.

[Manistique]

NB 115 passed MP 22.5 around 1:30 pm. Waiting for Amtrak 350 and that will be it for now on the South Holly.

[Delray]

507? by the Fort St cam at 14:48 CN x3

[amessmann]

At MP 225 on the Flint Sub, the M2 signal mast is bent in such a way that the light no longer shows down the track, instead being columnated towards the pedestrian footway near Hagadorn Rd. Has been this way since at least Monday night. Aspects are still visible at Bouge St. during the daytime, a friend told me it was barely visible at the next footway down towards Harrison Rd during his visit out there the other night. Now that the snow has started, the signal aspect is not visible at all from Bouge St.

[Delray]

Power move into Flat Rock. CN x2. by the Fort St cam at 15:23. Starting to snow hard

[GrandTrunkPontiac]

14:17 - NB S756 61 with CN 8952 (GTW HU) leading/CN 8859 trailing is at Coolidge.

I see now that "Coolidge" was not referring to NB at Coolidge Hwy & 14 Mile in Royal Oak, otherwise I would have ran over to Pontiac Amtrak to catch my favorite locomotive. I had assumed I had already missed it passing through Pontiac by the time I read that at around 14:45.

I take it that "Coolidge" is a reference to somewhere downriver, or at least somewhere down in Wayne County. Live and learn! Maybe I can catch it when it comes back to Holly Sub weeks/months from now.

The control point Coolidge is in River Rouge. Its basically where CN enters the Shared Assets.

Now for the road name. It's Coolidge down to 8 Mile, then becomes Schaefer in Detroit and Dearborn.

Schaefer becomes Coolidge again in River Rouge. It ends at West Jefferson Avenue.

It was also once called Dearborn Road in River Rouge, which is how the former Dearoad Yard got its name.

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense now. I assumed it had to do with Schaefer, but didn't realize it swaps back to being called Coolidge further south.

[Graham Halverson]

Power move into Flat Rock. CN x2. by the Fort St cam at 15:23. Starting to snow hard

This will be Q116. Ran stacks only today

[RoyalKingoftheRails]

CN FLINT SUB REVIEW

22:11 - EB Z148 WITH CN 8917/CN 5610 - CHARLOTTE YT CAM
23:13 - WB M301 WITH CN 2869 AND MID DPU CN EX-CITI 3919
23:47 - EB L500 WITH CN 8807 SOLO - LONG TRAIN WITH RACKS OFF OF G875 FOR SNOW YARD PLUS SET OFF FOR DURAND AS WELL AS CARS FOR FLINT

00:47 - WB A491 WITH CN /CN - CHARLOTTE YT CAM

03:11 - WB M397 WITH CN 100TH/CN EX-CITI - CHARLOTTE YT CAM
04:45 - EB P276 WITH UP 2598 - VIA RAIL SET - CHARLOTTE YT CAM
04:55 - EB L500 WITH CN 8807 SOLO SHOVING BACK ACROSS THE DIAMOND AFTER SETTING OFF IN DURAND

05:10 - EB M396 WITH CN 3311/CN 3085
05:30 - EB Q122 WITH CN 8846/CN 2507
05:48 - EB L500 WITH CN 8807 SOLO - DURAND M1 PROCEED TO FLINT
05:50 - WB E271 WITH CN 8960/CN 8853 - DURAND M2
05:52 - WB L501 WITH CN 5666 SOLO - CHARLOTTE YT CAM

07:15 - WB E271 WITH CN 8960/CN 8853 - CHARLOTTE YT CAM
08:07 - WB P365 DEPARTS DURAND ON TIME

09:18 - WB P365 - CHARLOTTE YT CAM
09:28 - EB M396 WITH CN 3311/CN 3085 - DURAND M1
09:30 - WB Z149 WITH CN 5751/CN 8818 - DURAND M2
09:41 - EB Q116 WITH CN 2233/CN 2333 - ALL INTERMODAL TODAY AND SOME FUN ENGINE NUMBERS PLAY THE LOTTO BARB

10:53 - EB A492 WITH CN 3219/CN 3220 - CHARLOTTE YT CAM - CONSECUTIVE NUMBER CN 100TH UNITS BARB
11:14 - EB/SB Q116 WITH CN 2233/CN 2333 - DURAND CHICAGO WYE
11:14 - WB Z147 WITH CN 5751/CN 8818 - CHARLOTTE YT CAM

What's the difference between Z149 and Z147?

[Manistique]

507 went past MP 22.5 around 5:30 pm. Three inches of snow here now.

[Dan Cluley]

...It was also once called Dearborn Road in River Rouge, which is how the former Dearoad Yard got its name.

I've read that name s bunch of times over the years but never heard it pronounced.

Is it Dee - road or Deer - ode or something else?

[GTW6401]

...It was also once called Dearborn Road in River Rouge, which is how the former Dearoad Yard got its name.

I've read that name s bunch of times over the years but never heard it pronounced.

Is it Dee - road or Deer - ode or something else?

Dee-Road is the pronunciation.

[Manistique]

...It was also once called Dearborn Road in River Rouge, which is how the former Dearoad Yard got its name.

I've read that name s bunch of times over the years but never heard it pronounced.

Is it Dee - road or Deer - ode or something else?

Dee-Road is the pronunciation.

The Detroit & Toledo Shoreline Railroad had a freight yard there, it being at its northern point. I think a roundhouse too.

[Delray]

251 by the Fort St cam at 9:20 CN x2

[Manistique]

A Saturday 515 with about eight boxcars for Chrysler and two gondolas for scrap with 5447 went SB past MP 22.5 at around 10:00 am.

[Manistique]

251 by the Fort St cam at 9:20 CN x2

Went past MP 22.5 around noon.

[LansingRailFan]

04:45 - EB P276 with UP 2598 thru Charlotte Livestream cam with the next VIA Rail trainset from Siemens

06:00 - EB P276 with UP 2598 departed Flint

07:22 - EB P276 with UP 2598 arrived in Port Huron

Btw this is the 12th trainset out of (I think) 20 ordered by VIA Rail.

[amessmann]

13:46 - E271 met M302, tail ends clearing Hagadorn Rd. MP 225 at the same time. 2904 at DPU on M302, 2233 and 2333 on E271. M399 passed maybe 20 minutes earlier, missed the head end by 10 cars with the EJE power.

[Manistique]

NB 515 with one TFM boxcar past MP 22.5 at 2:14 pm.

[RoyalKingoftheRails]

CN L533 and CSX L306 met at CP W Imlay at 2:30 PM