CN Train Location Updates - October 2020

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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514 working Moterm at 14:00

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CN 3892 & 2804 northbound at Mt Clemens

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Cn 3058 & 3238 is 491 tying back onto their train. 251 now pulling up through the yard to do their work.

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Cn 3214 leading E274 today, 3228 trailing. Just passing Emmett street and pulling up to McAllister. They said tight because he's barely going to fit. Cn 3270 is on 251 solo unless there's a dpu back in the train somewhere. 491 tied onto their train but still stationary 1500

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Cn 5781 & 2023 on 500 today. Waiting for a route to the east end to start putting their train together. Waiting on 251 and a yard job to clear. 397 is here for a recrew and potentially setting off some power. 491 also waiting on a crew. The tail end of 274 barely cleared Emmett st. Not sure how many feet that is but its good size 1544

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491 with their fresh crew departing west at emmett Street, 274 departing east at McAllister, 500 taking the service to the east end to build their train, 397 pulling up with 4 units to pick up 23 cars, yard job working in the yard although I cant see the unit number and 251 just finishing up their work 1606

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Eastbound mixed through Durand at 1637. Gevo, M-2, Gevo

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Northbound 514 by Linden at 6pm with 2 locos, 1 CN and GTW 6224, 69 cars.

Decent sized 514 today.

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Amtrak 364 out of East Lansing at 21:01.

4620, 6 cars & 4627

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Wb rack train by 205 at 2110 with 2 cn

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Eastbound with CN 3281 & 3832 through East Lansing at 21:16.

Couple of stack cars in the middle. Maybe a short 116?

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Eb manifest by 205 at 2330 with 2 cn in the lead and one in the middle. 2nd unit looked like.the exhaust was pretty warm.

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Southbound 116 by Linden at 10:12am with CN 5638 leading, and 2 other CN units (one of them being an old 25xx), 150 cars!! First 135 cars were all intermodal, almost entirely double stacks, with 15 empty autoracks on the tail end. Train was moving pretty slow too, maybe only about 25 mph for some reason.

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Southbound 116 conversation with Dispatcher at around 10:20 am reveals Chief Dispatcher permission to have them run "3 in notch 6". Dispatcher repeated this twice, so what I gather from that is only 2 of the 3 locomotives were online when he passed me in Linden, and was asking for permission to bring the 3rd unit online b/c he was really going slow. He could have even been going slower than 25 (above post). So for the rest of the trip, I guess he is limited to no faster than notch 6, which doesn't make a lot of sense unless they are on some big fuel savings kick, which wouldn't make sense either because fuel right now is very affordable. I have seen and heard this before on CN, train crew can't do anything on their own anymore, seems like they have to ask for permission for everything. I am aware of the whole horsepower per ton thing, but can someone shed some light on this? Thanks.

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Q148 through Imlay City @ 10:31. CN 5609 & 8016 with 142 cars. Flying through town!

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Northbound road freight is working north end of Pontiac Yard. Looks like it may pick up a string of CN box cars.
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Cn 5421 east at mill shoving cars for local customers at 1220. Has loaded beams and Purina cars

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Cn 5611 +1 east by mill at 1234. All empty racks

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116 south at Birmingham at 12:43. Dropped the racks in Pontiac.

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Is this in Lansing?
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Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:21 pm
Cn 5421 east at mill shoving cars for local customers at 1220. Has loaded beams and Purina cars
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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