CN Updates April 2016

[GTWwatcher]

Eastbound through Belsay at 5:59 PM

[GTWwatcher]

Another eastbound through Belsay at 8:40 PM

[GTW6401]

Saw a southbound unit sand train in Royal Oak at 8:45pm Friday. It was operated with distributed power, CN 2832, 3045 and 3049 (DPU).

They met M391 just north of the Amtrak station, which had CN 2924 and 2918.

[GTWwatcher]

Westbound through Belsay at 6:52 PM

[CN_Okemos]

Newer locomotive 3056 leading an eastbound through East Lansing right now. There was also an eastbound about 10 minutes ahead of this with 3 locos but I didn't catch the numbers.

[ogauge47]

533 at Holbrook. IC 1012 leading

[GTWwatcher]

Westbound through Belsay at 10:29 AM

[GTWwatcher]

Eastbound through Belsay at 11:38 AM

[detroitbench]

CN heading south at Nolan.

[Russ Hill]

4:30pm, 533, GTW 4619-CN 8962 shoving in at Moterm.

[GTWwatcher]

Eastbound through Belsay at 9:25 PM

[AARR]

The Pontiac south local is staged to go. Ex MP GP38-2 (wide-spaced radiator fans) leads a long train (20ish cars) of mostly loaded center beams but plastic pellet cars and a few others.

[KenB]

CN #382 N.B. at Delray in Detroit, MI @ 1230 on April 08, 2016. Power is CN 3036, 2834.

[Robertrains]

I saw southbound train 385, Fraser, at 6 p.m. I didn't bike ride to the trax in time!!!! It had CN ES44AC #2917 and CN ET44AC #3033 with 93 cars!!!! I then photographed southbound train 533, at 6:15, with Blue GTW GP9r #4619 and CN SD70M-2 #8962!!!! It had 17 loaded "Well Car" sets!!!! I love that a GP9r was "Paired with a "High Horsepower" loco (and leading)! GTW GP9r locos are not seen as much since there are only 10 remaining (five in GTW Blue)!!!!

I miss the "High Hood" locos on the GTW!!!! Here's a picture my Dad (RCJ I) took of the southbound local in 1989 (I was there at age 6):

[SD40-2]

399 had BCOL 4644 - CN 2576 - IC 2704 and 180 cars by Brantford at 18:04 on friday

[GTWwatcher]

Sighted GTW 4909 switching some frame loads at GM Flint Assembly in Flint around 3:00 earlier this afternoon

[ogauge47]

385 at Oak St in Wyandotte at 5:30

[Robertrains]

At the MTM station, Mt. Clemens—I photographed two southbound trains! Train 385 came at 3:00 p.m. with CN ES44AC locos, #2904 and 2805 with 140 cars!!!! Shortly behind, at 3:20, was train 533 (usually these trains run in "Pairs")! It had CN SD70M-2 #8962 and CN painted GTW GP38-2 #5850 with 7 loaded "Well Car" sets!!!!

[Robertrains]

I saw another train today (4-9) from across Groesbeck! It was a southbound led by "New" CN ET44AC #3005 and a ES44DC (#29XX) with a good amount of "Tank Cars!!!!"
It was heading south through Fraser about 7:45 p.m. Now, is this an "Extra" train or a "New" one? This is not a "Usual" train on the Mt. Clemens Sub.

[detroitbench]

CN 2882 leading CN 2861 southbound at Conant.