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by Manistique
Thu May 12, 2022 5:30 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

NB 515 with the IC GP38-2 is either waiting a MP 20 on the Holly for Amtrak 355 to leave Pontiac or it has stalled on the hill. From its location and the number of cars I could see from Kensington Road and where the locomotive is and that it has a yellow board at Opdyke my bet is that it stalled on ...
by Manistique
Thu May 12, 2022 1:31 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

What I presume was 251 was NB past MP 22.2 at 1:20 pm with six CN locomotives and a very short train.
by Manistique
Thu May 12, 2022 12:21 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

116 is going sb past MP 22.5 at 12:20 pm. It has some autoracks after the containers. Still a single locomotive.
by Manistique
Thu May 12, 2022 6:47 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

Train 450 with that EJE 3023 trailing past MP 22.5 at 6:46 am. Shorter train with a lot of steel on it. Funny but the steel cars in grouped in different blocks instead of all together. I have never seen a modern EJE locomotive before, just the second generation ones.
by Manistique
Tue May 10, 2022 5:01 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

ConrailDetr​oit wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 4:59 pm
513 SB by Bloomfield Hills with 1 Tank.
And it had 5932 ,the GTW SD40-2, as power today. I noticed this locomotive wasn't on 514 yesterday so now it must be assigned to Pontiac for a bit.

And at 5:03 CN 5441 went by MP 22.5 lite in reverse. I presume it is 514.
by Manistique
Tue May 10, 2022 4:28 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

Train 515, the Local NB returning to Pontiac passed MP 22.5 with IC 9627 GP38-2 pulling 27 cars up the hill at 25 mph barking away at notch 8 at 4:25 pm.
by Manistique
Tue May 10, 2022 9:33 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2022
Replies: 123
Views: 70333

Re: Shortline Train Location Updates - May 2022

ConrailDetr​oit wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 9:23 am
Detroit Connecting RR is working today.
Train 515 yesterday had about seven or eight empty gondolas for DCON, about two or three times the usual number.
by Manistique
Fri May 06, 2022 5:20 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

251 through Trenton at 15:47 CN+CN+BNSF+KCS That may have been the power on 116 this morning, certainly the BNSF and KCS ones. On the Holly we have routinely been seeing three "second generation" locomotives this week. 514 has been having the GTW 5932, the SD40-2. 515 has been having SD40-2L 5335 a...
by Manistique
Wed May 04, 2022 1:45 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

Delray wrote:
Wed May 04, 2022 10:10 am
251 through Trenton at 8:25 CN 8844 CN 8834
Through Bloomfield Hills around noon. A lot of empty steel flats and some with coiled steel on them. Rejected coils maybe?
by Manistique
Tue May 03, 2022 5:10 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

251 had seven locomotives today including a UP, a BNSF and an EJ&E SD38 in orange. Passed MP 22.5 on the Holly at 4 pm or so. Train 515 NB passed MP 22.5 a bit earlier with CN 5335, the SD40-2L, again today. SB Train 514 had a 5400 and GTW 5932, one of the ex-UP, nee MP SD-40-2's it picked up years ...
by Manistique
Tue May 03, 2022 8:20 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

I can confirm larger than normal intermodal quantities (116 and 514) going down the Holly Sub over the last few days. Next time I catch one I'll report the car count. On a different note, anyone know if the new Amazon facility in Detroit (old fairgrounds site just south of 8 Mile) will be receiving...
by Manistique
Mon May 02, 2022 10:31 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN May Updates-2022
Replies: 755
Views: 113209

Re: CN May Updates-2022

Delray wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 10:09 am
251 through Trenton at 7:36 CN 229? CN 5785 CN (GTW) 5817
Arriving Pontiac at 10:28. The 5817 looked good. An original GTW purchase.

Local Train 513 had SD40-2W 5335 as power today, just passing MP 22.5 at 10:29.
by Manistique
Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:39 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Replies: 405
Views: 226182

Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022

Amtrak 350/355 has its baggage car back and one coach removed today.
by Manistique
Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:26 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Replies: 405
Views: 226182

Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022

Amtrak 351 left Pontiac a half hour late this morning.
by Manistique
Fri Apr 29, 2022 4:06 pm
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Replies: 405
Views: 226182

Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022

Amtrak 350 past MP 22.5 on the Holly crawling at around 10 mph and an hour and a half late.
by Manistique
Sat Apr 23, 2022 9:20 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN Train Location Updates - April 2022
Replies: 731
Views: 113942

Re: CN Train Location Updates - April 2022

Q116 south at Birmingham at 7:20. CN 2319 and BNSF 9191. 116 cars. On the head end of 116 were a lot of opened coiled steel cars, mostly GRW (?) gondolas, full of steel. I have been seeing dozens of cars of steel going both south and north on CN's Holly Sub trains these past few weeks. Sometimes Na...
by Manistique
Sat Apr 23, 2022 8:27 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN Train Location Updates - April 2022
Replies: 731
Views: 113942

Re: CN Train Location Updates - April 2022

Q116 south at Birmingham at 7:20. CN 2319 and BNSF 9191. 116 cars. There were only a few containers on 116 this morning, all on the rear. On the head end of 116 were a lot of opened coiled steel cars, mostly GRW (?) gondolas, full of steel. I have been seeing dozens of cars of steel going both sout...
by Manistique
Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:00 am
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Penn Central Mackinac Branch
Replies: 14
Views: 13696

Re: Penn Central Mackinac Branch

The tracks are still in place from CN south to Turrill Road, about two miles. Lapeer Industrial owns them but only uses them from CN to just south of Peppermill Road where their only shipper, Albar Industries, receives covered hoppers of plastic pellets. The bridge over Hunters Creek just south of t...
by Manistique
Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:38 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN Train Location Updates - March 2022
Replies: 637
Views: 123001

Re: CN Train Location Updates - March 2022

A northbound on the Holly just pasted MP 22.5 heading into Pontiac at 9:15 am. It had a CSX locomotive leading a two-car special train, one car being a passenger car of some sort. It looked like both cars had FRA logos on it and were painted red and white (and maybe blue). This special train is now...
by Manistique
Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:25 am
Forum: Train Location Updates / Heads Ups
Topic: CN Train Location Updates - March 2022
Replies: 637
Views: 123001

Re: CN Train Location Updates - March 2022

A northbound on the Holly just pasted MP 22.5 heading into Pontiac at 9:15 am. It had a CSX locomotive leading a two-car special train, one car being a passenger car of some sort. It looked like both cars had FRA logos on it and were painted red and white (and maybe blue).