Michigan Short Line Updates - October 2019

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GRE --- EB Leonard at 1:15 with 11 CHs (8 for King)
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Lowell has hoppers on every track, including a long line south of town. Looks like some newer CP higher capacity hoppers as well. Also 3 or four hoppers and 1 tank for AMWAY on the siding along the Mainline in Ada. Plus more hoppers at Fuller.

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GRE --- WB Leonard at 10:40 with 3 CHs from King
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GRE --- EB Leonard at 11:10 with a single CH
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GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:35 with 7 CHs for King
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GRE --- WB Leonard at 2:40 with 18 CHs
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HESR is going to head north from Durand with 90 cars.

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Saw LSRC Z127 today in Wixom. They had LSRC 6301, 6351, and two CSX engines, 166 and 5442 that came down from Flint.

LSRC 6351 is the first of the newly arrived SD50s rebuilt by MEI.
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Z151 came south around 6 pm and went back north at 8:30 pm last evening, so there will be no 151 today :(

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Was there a large fertilizer or grain block on this?
GTW6401 wrote:HESR is going to head north from Durand with 90 cars.
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Local Grand elk job facing south, just north of BO tower in Kalamazoo. WAMX 4009 leading a mix of boxcars and hoppers. Awaiting Amtrak 352 to get through town.
At 5pm, saw at least two strings of stone hoppers on the East end of "Botsford" yard. Two NS locos attached. Also another NS unit further east of that, looked to have a few cars, maybe the local. Headlight on but not moving.
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My mother caught a GRE EB around noon in Ada, so it ran Tuesday-Thurs today

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Grand Elk passenger train ran to GR this morning from Kalamazoo this morning. Supposed to return tomorrow morning southbound.
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GDLK excursion south approaching Plainwell 10:40.
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GRE went east around 1:00pm. Did not see them return, but Ann St. Yard is full of loads and empties.

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The GRE yard is full. Lots of empties. The CP and Soo empty cars loaded at Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed Association in Thief River Falls MN.

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Somebody said that the GRE will soon be doing 5 days a week operations. Does anyone know when that will start?

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kd_1014 wrote:Somebody said that the GRE will soon be doing 5 days a week operations. Does anyone know when that will start?
I've been told it's not going to happen. Time will tell.

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Maybe the needed to operate five days for one week and it gets circulated as a permanent operation :?
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kd_1014 wrote:Somebody said that the GRE will soon be doing 5 days a week operations. Does anyone know when that will start?
I've been told it's not going to happen. Time will tell.
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It was talked about, but personally I don't think there's enough business currently to warrant running 5 days a week.
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