Jun 8 @ Durand - full day's action

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Jun 8 @ Durand - full day's action

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Doing the same here as I did with my BO Tower visit. I realize this could go in under CN Update, but for the record, this would be a set useful to have seperate as a "day in Durand" sorta deal :)

7:15 EDT: Amtrak #365 rolling up to the station, quite early
7:24 EDT: AMTK okay to depart. Moved about 200 feet and stopped.
7:35 EDT: Amtrak still here. Checking T&E train for overheated axle bearing, per alarm. Crew out walking.
7:50 EDT: Amtrak okay to depart. No hot axles found. Car logs show the same fault twice in the past week. Good for track speed.
~9:00 EDT: CN Autorack/Manifest WB
10:24 EDT: BNSF Lite Power EB
10:29 EDT: CN Track Inspector WB
10:35 EDT: CN Manifest/Autorack EB
13:02 EDT: Coal with BNSF power EB to SB.
14:15 EDT: HESR with two RA units and one G&W with 27 cars S to E and back into the yard
14:34EDT: CN Manifest EB
15:45 EDT: CN short manifest NB to WB
15:59 EDT: HESR okay to depart, SB to EB and back north
16:02 EDT: CN Local WB to SB, waiting on HESR before going north to the yard
16:14 EDT: HESR okay to proceed northward.
16:25 EDT: CN Local okay NB to the yard.
17:45 EDT: CN Local is now a MTY coal train. Moving SB now, will go N to E to W soon.
18:00 EDT: CN Local/Coal now making their NB to EB move
18:30 EDT: CN Local/Coal now WB finally. Will be meeting an EB soon, who is just by Perry per the DS
19:01 EDT: CN Manifest EB to SB, prepping to shove into the yard
19:11 EDT: Manifest NB shoving into the yard
19:36 EDT: Manifest back SB on the diamond
19:46 EDT: Manifest NB to WB back to their train
19:55 EDT: EB Coal, preparing to shove into the yard
20:16 EDT: EB Manifest, meets Loaded coal
20:17 EDT: Coal shoving around the Port Huron Wye
20:47 EDT: Coal now completely in the yard, GLC waiting to depart
21:05 EDT: GLC RR SB
21:37 EDT: AMTK 364 stopping at Durand
21:40 EDT: Amtrak departing. WB coming, so will be hitting all reds east of Durand
21:52 EDT: CN WB Manifest. Amtrak clear EB
22:00 EDT: CN EB Manifest. Coal power departing for Flint

14 hours, 18 trains, many more "movements"
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