CN Updates April 2020

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Manistique wrote:
Dan Cluley wrote:Westbound stack train with CN 2891 & 5781 through East Lansing at 21:34.

Eastbound with CN 2867 & 2826 through at 21:45.
That stack train is the one that went by MP 22.5 awhile ago. An extra that I thought was 514.
By 205 at 2201

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116 by 205 at 2242 with 2 cn.

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Wb manifest by 205 at 2314 with 2 cn

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Local Train 515 past MP 22.5 at 7:49 am with 26 cars, mostly loaded centerbeams and some cars for the DCON interchange with 5416 as power again today. You know everything is going to be OK as long as 515 is running.

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M383 was by Mount Clemens depot at 06:28. CN/CN/CN, 426 axles. Stopped south of the Chesterfield detector as the axle count was not jiving with the info the conductor had. Must have been alerted by the Smiths Creek detector and waited until Chesterfield to double check. Under way a short time later.

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Train 451 (replacement for 251) was NB past MP 22.2 at 12:35 pm. Looked like two locomotives. Saw it from a distance.

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Southbound 514 by Linden at 3:38pm with Light Engines 9618 and 5340. Most excitement there has been in the last few days during the daylight hours.

Hey Manistique - they are back to a 451 Symbol now instead of 251???? It was 451, then 251, now back to 451 again?

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M385 by Mount Clemens depot at 15:55. Running about half length these days without the automotive traffic. Largely chemicals, lumber and aluminum.

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David Lang wrote: Hey Manistique - they are back to a 451 Symbol now instead of 251???? It was 451, then 251, now back to 451 again?

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Wasn't it 371 for a while too?

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David Lang wrote:Southbound 514 by Linden at 3:38pm with Light Engines 9618 and 5340. Most excitement there has been in the last few days during the daylight hours.

Hey Manistique - they are back to a 451 Symbol now instead of 251???? It was 451, then 251, now back to 451 again?

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515 SB OS past MP 22.2 at 4:35 pm lite still.

Yes, they recycle those three train numbers on this train. They all have a meaning of some sort. They must be combining 451 and 401 at Pontiac now before heading to Chicago as I suspected.

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Man o' War wrote:M385 by Mount Clemens depot at 15:55. Running about half length these days without the automotive traffic. Largely chemicals, lumber and aluminum.

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Yes, I saw this train in Fraser around 4.00 p.m. with 65 cars!!!! CN ES44ACs #2911/3806! Where is local train 533? It would be nice to catch EJE SD38-2 #668
if it's working this train!!!!
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251, for example (I believe) are numbers reserved for mostly, if not all autorack / automotive trains.

271 on the Mt. Clemens Sub = autoracks. 276, 280 on the Southbend, Holly, and Flint Subs = autoracks. Old Train Numbers 273, 275, 277, 281 were all or mostly all autorack / auto related trains.

I say this because 251 has lost its autorack / automotive traffic, so what 251 did occasionally carry that was not auto related, along with the combination of 401 (if that is indeed happening), equals a number that is designated for more of a general freight situation, hence 451.

Now the difference between and 300 series and 400 series trains I don't know - maybe priority?

Now I could be wrong on all this, but I actually think I am pretty close.

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David Lang wrote:
Now the difference between and 300 series and 400 series trains I don't know - maybe priority?

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Basically, M series trains (300's) are long haul inter-divisional manifests, and A series trains (400's) are short haul intra-divisional manifests.

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Man o' War wrote:M385 by Mount Clemens depot at 15:55. Running about half length these days without the automotive traffic. Largely chemicals, lumber and aluminum.

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Yes, I saw this train in Fraser around 4.00 p.m. with 65 cars!!!! CN ES44ACs #2911/3806! Where is local train 533? It would be nice to catch EJE SD38-2 #668
if it's working this train!!!!
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Robert, L533S just passed through Mount Clemens with the EJE unit, and will be working Great Lakes Recycling on its way back to Port Huron tonight.

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Eb empty blade train by 205 at 1901. Bnsf leading cn 2434 elephant style

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402 by 205 at 1920 with a single cn and a short train

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M384 by Mount Clemens depot at 19:55. CN/CN, 64 cars.

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NB 515 with a long train was notch 8 up the Hill at about 40 mph when it passed MP 22.5 at 7:45 pm, the turbo of the SD40-2 screaming and the GP-38-2 chanting like mad.

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364 by 205 at 2025

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L533N by Mount Clemens depot at 23:11.

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