CN Updates April 2020

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Why are you using Belt Line Junction as a reference point? The Belt Line and Yellow Cab are LONG gone.

Use a milepost or road name/crossing along the Holly.

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GTW6401 wrote:Why are you using Belt Line Junction as a reference point? The Belt Line and Yellow Cab are LONG gone.

Use a milepost or road name/crossing along the Holly.
You knew!

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Southbound 514 by Linden at 3:55pm with CN 9618, CN 5340, 48 cars.

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L533S through Richmond at 15:55. EJE 658, many system boxes and a gon. Currently working Mount Clemens at 17:00.

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Man o' War wrote:L533S through Richmond at 15:55. EJE 658, many system boxes and a gon. Currently working Mount Clemens at 17:00.

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Maybe this train with
CN painted EJE SD38-2 #668 will head south!!!! I will keep watching this board!
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Robertrains wrote:
Man o' War wrote:L533S through Richmond at 15:55. EJE 658, many system boxes and a gon. Currently working Mount Clemens at 17:00.

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Maybe this train with
CN painted EJE SD38-2 #668 will head south!!!! I will keep watching this board!

Yes, he should be heading to Detroit (East Yard) after switching FCA in MC. Waiting to see if they will be held for M385. May work Great Lakes on his return, but unfortunately, after dark.

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Man o' War, is the GLR business temporary? If yes does it have anything to do with the Coronavirus?
Man o' War wrote:May work Great Lakes on his return, but unfortunately, after dark.

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451 went North through Linden maybe an hour or so ago with 216 axles, so around 50 or so cars.

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Eastbound past 224 at 1852.

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Man o' War wrote:
Robertrains wrote:
Man o' War wrote:L533S through Richmond at 15:55. EJE 658, many system boxes and a gon. Currently working Mount Clemens at 17:00.

Man o' War

Maybe this train with
CN painted EJE SD38-2 #668 will head south!!!! I will keep watching this board!

Yes, he should be heading to Detroit (East Yard) after switching FCA in MC. Waiting to see if they will be held for M385. May work Great Lakes on his return, but unfortunately, after dark.

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I went to Mt. Clemens and waited a while and did not get it! EJE 668 took too long sitting at FCA and then it was dark/snowing!!!!
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AARR wrote:Man o' War, is the GLR business temporary? If yes does it have anything to do with the Coronavirus?
Man o' War wrote:May work Great Lakes on his return, but unfortunately, after dark.

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I don't know. They have been in and out of there (L533) a couple of times a week for more than a month now - so relatively steady, but we'll see what transpires. On a related note, Phoenix Stone in Mount Clemens paid the bill on their switch again, so they not yet giving up on future rail service either. Also, with the auto plants down, I'm curious as to what is going in and out of FCA in MC. Still switched multiple times per week, but lately just 50' CN/GTW boxes (not high cubes). FCA parts all come from Mexico in western road high cubes, and I'm wondering if they are still stacking aluminum in some far corner of that complex. Guess I need to talk to some CN guys - at a 6' distance...

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189 departing from Moterm - CN 3153 and 3888. 428 axles.

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M384 by Mount Clemens depot at 20:47. CN/CN/GTW, 40 cars. Yesterday, near 70 and sunny - tonight, snowy, cold, windy and the switch heaters blasting away. Fickle April.

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GTW6401 wrote:189 departing from Moterm - CN 3153 and 3888. 428 axles.
By 205 at 2321

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Eb manifest by 205 with 2 cn at 0027

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L533N by Mount Clemens depot at 00:45. EJE 658, 10 cars.

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116 approaching Moterm. 352 axles.

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365 by 205 at 0905

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515 north at Birmingham with CN 5416

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Q149 west through Lapeer at 1430 with a pair of CN Gevos.

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