Great Lakes Central Updates: January 2021

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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GLC_391 wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:15 pm
I have a feeling there coming to Traverse City tomorrow. Wednesday night there was a truck crew in tc plowing the crossings. The crew brought 3 gons to beacon around 12 am to tc last Friday. Seen the cars there the other day. The gons at Beacon Recycling are ready for pickup I think.
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More likely cleaning the flangeway at the crossings. Packed ice and snow in there can and does derail trains.

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DaveO wrote:
Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:54 am
More likely cleaning the flangeway at the crossings. Packed ice and snow in there can and does derail trains.
Didn't they derail one up there last year? Or get it stuck in the snow on a crossing. I vaguely remember pictures of it being posted. Maybe its been longer than that

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GLC heading south at Durand at 10:01 with 90 cars. Engines 383, 384, 395, 395. Looks like an empty Potash train.

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bnsfben wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:04 am
GLC heading south at Durand at 10:01 with 90 cars. Engines 383, 384, 395, 395. Looks like an empty Potash train.
Who gets unit potash on glc?

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KC8RBK wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:28 am
bnsfben wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:04 am
GLC heading south at Durand at 10:01 with 90 cars. Engines 383, 384, 395, 395. Looks like an empty Potash train.
Who gets unit potash on glc?
Was handed off to HESR. Customer is Seargents I think.

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Any up dates on this s.b.? Has he made it to Howell yet?

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KenB wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 11:52 am
Any up dates on this s.b.? Has he made it to Howell yet?
Looks like it was given to the HESR.
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bnsfben wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:04 am
GLC heading south at Durand at 10:01 with 90 cars. Engines 383, 384, 395, 395. Looks like an empty Potash train.
Thanks for the heads up. Saw your post 30 minutes later, so walked the eight blocks to the Howell depot to see it and sill had a 45 minute wait before it showed up. Finally got to see 384 in person and to check to see if it has the same type of cool sounding horn that is on 383 and it does. By the looks of 384 being so clean, must be one of its first working trips. Darn shame GLC could not have re-lettered and renumbered 384 identical to 383 to have a pair of twins. Or, did 383 like the 384 to start with. Five cars of fans watching it go south including one fellow with a drone who was following it from Durand. Counted 89 cars and could have been no later than 11:35 when the tail end when by the Howell depot. Trailing unit was 396.

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Thank you for the up-date.

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CSX to GLC to HESR to Sargents. Used to go CSX to LSRC to HESR but a year or two ago changed routing.
LansingRailFan wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 11:49 am
KC8RBK wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:28 am
bnsfben wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:04 am
GLC heading south at Durand at 10:01 with 90 cars. Engines 383, 384, 395, 395. Looks like an empty Potash train.
Who gets unit potash on glc?
Was handed off to HESR. Customer is Seargents I think.
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Thank you for the up-date. 1322, GLC lite power north from Osmrr.

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BL2-1843 wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:01 pm
bnsfben wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:04 am
GLC heading south at Durand at 10:01 with 90 cars. Engines 383, 384, 395, 395. Looks like an empty Potash train.
Thanks for the heads up. Saw your post 30 minutes later, so walked the eight blocks to the Howell depot to see it and sill had a 45 minute wait before it showed up. Finally got to see 384 in person and to check to see if it has the same type of cool sounding horn that is on 383 and it does. By the looks of 384 being so clean, must be one of its first working trips. Darn shame GLC could not have re-lettered and renumbered 384 identical to 383 to have a pair of twins. Or, did 383 like the 384 to start with. Five cars of fans watching it go south including one fellow with a drone who was following it from Durand. Counted 89 cars and could have been no later than 11:35 when the tail end when by the Howell depot. Trailing unit was 396.
I agree Bob. I’m not sure why they don’t paint two units the same scheme?

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AARR wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:20 pm
CSX to GLC to HESR to Sargents. Used to go CSX to LSRC to HESR but a year or two ago changed routing.
LansingRailFan wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 11:49 am
KC8RBK wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:28 am


Who gets unit potash on glc?
Was handed off to HESR. Customer is Seargents I think.
CP->NS->AA->GLC->HESR

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Thank you for the correction
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CP->NS->AA->GLC->HESR
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AANscaleRunner wrote:
Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:43 am
Leaving Cadillac for Clare at 0930.
At mcbain switching viking at 1000. 398 & 393. 2 pole loads and an empty beam on the head end. Seems weird that they switch biewer sb when to my knowledge the siding peals off to the south. I'm sure they have a reason. Nothing at biewer to pick up

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329 & 382 working the ithaca bean plant at 1215. Looks like a decent size train

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The 2 6 axles sb backing into the ithaca bean plant at 1640

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