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116 just passed MP 22.5 at 12:27 pm.

508 just passed MP 22.5 with that stub nosed GE 2501 trailing. A few containers on the head end, rest pretty mixed except no boxcars, plenty of racks.

Graham Halverson wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:42 pm

Delray wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:32 pm

507? by the Fort St cam at 15:17 CN 2945

Was it just 2945 or is there another unit?

Just the one unit, 2984, and it is passing MP 22.5 at 6:34 pm.

251 rolling past MP 22.5 at 1:27 pm. A lot of mixed freight up front including a long cut of sand cars. The second unit, an 8100, looks like it was renumbered lately. I don't recall an 8100 series before.

116 past MP 22.5 at 12:22 pm.

NB 515 with 9607 and seven box cars passed MP 22.5 at around 11:30 am.

A Saturday SB 515 with IC 9607 and a few boxcars passed MP 22.5 around 8 am.

507 drifting past MP 22.5 at 7:47 pm.

Delray wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:46 pm

251 by the Fort St cam at 10:39 CN x2

NB 515 followed Amtrak 350 into Pontiac by about 15 minutes, around 2:20 pm. Now 251 is passing MP 22.5 at 2:50 pm with the power from yesterday's 116 again (two 5600's) and all autoracks today. Typical long 251 today.

116 rolling past MP 22.5 at 11:38 with an 8800 leading an 8100. Medium length train, racks then stacks.

SB 515 went past MP 22.5 later than usual today with 5466. It followed Amtrak 353 down the Hill around 9 am.

NB 515 past MP 22.5 at 1:18 pm with a large Conrail pickup and eleven gondolas full of used ties at the rear end. Working hard up the Hill in the rain.

116 is going past MP 22.5 at 12 noon with two low numbered 5600's as power. These early ones are gping on 30 years old now.

Delray wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:47 am

251 by the Fort St cam at 9:00 CN x2 GT HU leading

Passing MP 22.5 at 11:00 am. The second unit, a GE, was elephant style so maybe that is why they turned the power. Near the head end is an old 85 ft. GTW hicube boxcar today.

David Collins wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:35 pm

Q116 finally on the move, through Charlotte at 5:20.

Went past MP 22.5 around 8 pm.

507 rolling past MP 22.5 at 6:37 pm. An 8800 leading a 5700.

What looked like an early 508 went past MP 22.5 at 5:45 pm.

Great video! From info I have gathered from a few sources: CN did not want to handle the unit trains to and from the elevator. Supposedly, CN required the elevator to ship at least 500 cars a year, and they were barely handling shipping half that number. Also, The Andersons ethanol plant in nearby ...

SB 515 with 5466 passing MP 22.5 at 8:13 am with 22 cars, four tanks up front, four boxcars at the rear and the rest loaded centerbeams.

Late report from last night on the South Holly: There was a 513 with 9607. It went south with one tank around 7:30 pm, came back around 8:15 pm. 507 and 508 passed each other locomotive to locomotive in my backyard at 8 pm last night. Only one of a handful of times over the last 34 years that that h...