Great Lakes Central Updates February 2021

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GLC taking 13 cars north from Owosso to Oakley to add it to the 87-car corn tren already there. They will be filled immediately and according to poster will depart early this afternoon.

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AANscaleRunner wrote:
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About 30 cars back was a Penn Central gon... those old CSX MOW gons are always interesting.
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GLC is taking the 100 car corn train from Oakley to Durand and yarding it. The crew then heads back north to Owosso, grabs the OSTN and heads south.

Corn train is heading south to Mobile, AL via CN!

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Doesn't seem like a lot of grain is interchanged from GLC/HESR to CN. Could there be a change in traffic patterns?
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Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:20 pm
GLC is taking the 100 car corn train from Oakley to Durand and yarding it. The crew then heads back north to Owosso, grabs the OSTN and heads south.

Corn train is heading south to Mobile, AL via CN!
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AARR wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:59 pm
Doesn't seem like a lot of grain is interchanged from GLC/HESR to CN. Could there be a change in traffic patterns?
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Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:20 pm
GLC is taking the 100 car corn train from Oakley to Durand and yarding it. The crew then heads back north to Owosso, grabs the OSTN and heads south.

Corn train is heading south to Mobile, AL via CN!
This is a special export corn load from the Oakley elevator to Mobile.

Cars came up via AA/GLC so this is totally an interesting run. 87 cars came up via AA/GLC (not sure if NS or CSX origin) and then 13 additional came up this week from somewhere.

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AARR wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:59 pm
Doesn't seem like a lot of grain is interchanged from GLC/HESR to CN. Could there be a change in traffic patterns?
LansingRailFan wrote:
Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:20 pm
GLC is taking the 100 car corn train from Oakley to Durand and yarding it. The crew then heads back north to Owosso, grabs the OSTN and heads south.

Corn train is heading south to Mobile, AL via CN!

And AARR you are correct. This is the first unit train being handed off in Durand to CN since CN/HESR lost the coal loads to Essexville.

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Hi-Rail was spotted in TC earlier this afternoon, anticipating a run late this evening. I'm on standby for when it gets close to town.
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KingsleyRailFan wrote:
Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:46 pm
Hi-Rail was spotted in TC earlier this afternoon, anticipating a run late this evening. I'm on standby for when it gets close to town.
There are two loaded gons pushed to the "GLC pickup" area (I just made "GLC pickup" up, but Beacon pushes cars ready to be taken away past the scales which most always means "come get 'em, boys!".
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Anyone know if they are for sure making a Traverse City run tonight?
I know that there’s a gon or 2 ready for pickup on the main at beacon

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ONTN had 383/386/384 on it. Foam happened.

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Ostn is lined through durand sb just coming into town. 1815 per atcs

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GLC_391 wrote:
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Anyone know if they are for sure making a Traverse City run tonight?
I know that there’s a gon or 2 ready for pickup on the main at beacon
GLC-391, did you see my post right before yours? 2 gons loaded and ready. They are NOT on the main. They are on the Beacon siding.
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OSTN is SB at Durand. 329/382. 6:24 PM.

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Not sure if they made a run last night or not, I fell asleep really early. When I head to town later I'll look.
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KingsleyRailFan wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:02 am
Not sure if they made a run last night or not, I fell asleep really early. When I head to town later I'll look.
There was a post on a FB group saying it was near the depot in TC around 1:30 this morning.
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Before this thread gets locked, could someone post the link for the March 2021 thread? Thanks!

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amessmann wrote:
Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:33 am
Before this thread gets locked, could someone post the link for the March 2021 thread? Thanks!
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