Great Lakes Central Updates: December 2020

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Track crew working the Middleton district west of 127 again this morning 0800

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At one of the AARRT&HA annual meetings a few years ago (maybe 10) the President of GLC said that they were willing to invest in upgrading the Middleton Branch but had to be in line with the branches revenues (which at the time were about $500,000 annually). Since then MAC has added capacity, a fertilizer and/or feed mill has located on line adding quite a few carloads and I believe there is one fertilizer transload customer. It seems like GLC investment has paid dividends 8)
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Track crew working the Middleton district west of 127 again this morning 0800
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3 loaded beam cars in mcbain this morning. They were just tightening the cables down on them. Nothing else in the siding and I cant see the viking siding where I come in at 0949

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Left Cadillac for Mcbain at 1030. Only ties for Viking.

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It doesn't look like biewer has been visited since yesterday. I can see a string of tie gons to the west. I assume they're empty since I don't see anything sticking up. That or they're loaded below the sides 1028

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Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1210.

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There's still boxcars sitting at Walton Junction, I'd assume they'd send someone up to grab those at some point.
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More work at 127 on both sides on the Middleton branch

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Interesting that's there box cars there. Do they look like they're in revenue service?
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There's still boxcars sitting at Walton Junction, I'd assume they'd send someone up to grab those at some point.
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From AANR's video's it seems they keep the ties below the tops of the sides
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I can see a string of tie gons to the west. I assume they're empty since I don't see anything sticking up. That or they're loaded below the sides 1028
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KingsleyRailFan wrote:
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There's still boxcars sitting at Walton Junction, I'd assume they'd send someone up to grab those at some point.

Box cars???? Why would there be box cars in Walton? There's no customers even in Cadillac or north for that matter that get box cars. Any marks/numbers? Also any idea how many?
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Sorry- hoppers. I wrote that post in about 4 seconds, so I didn't think it all the way through. They're still there, but the engine is gone.
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392 and 382 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1430. Around 30 cars.

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392 and 382 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 1430. Around 30 cars.
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Nothing seen for track equipment today on the Middleton district. 1 loaded beams car at biewer today. Nokl reporting mark. Its the only car there. Yesterday there was nothing there

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Leaving Cadillac towards McBain at 1510.

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National Signal truck backed up along one of the signals at the eastern-most South South Airport Road crossing in Traverse City bright and early at 7:45 this morning.
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392 and 382 leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0910 with 18 cars.

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Working mcbain at 1016. I can hear them on the radio but no visual yet. Working viking first. 2 loaded beams here at biewer. 392 in the lead 1017

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Word on the street is GLC 384 (ex MRL 702) is now in service.
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