OS: Business train on Freeport Sub
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CN 3309 & CN 3331 in charge of a westbound business train on Thursday March 28, through South Elgin IL (MP 40) at 08:44. They have the lineup to at least Seward (MP 100.1). I hear they are going to inspect the Iowa Northern, but there is one planned stop in Dubuque, IA.
-- Grateful Fred Sugar Ridge Tower MP40 CC&P |
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the planned stop at Dubuque might be for a recrew or something. but usually i think they can make it to Waterloo within 12 hours On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:04 Fred Hilgenberg <hilgy1954@...> wrote: CN 3309 & CN 3331 in charge of a westbound business train on Thursday March 28, through South Elgin IL (MP 40) at 08:44. They have the lineup to at least Seward (MP 100.1). I hear they are going to inspect the Iowa Northern, but there is one planned stop in Dubuque, IA. |
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I heard that the train symbol was "OCS". It's already on the return trip, as the CN 3309 "wafer logo" was reported eastbound Earlville, IA at 17:22 on the Heritage Units website. Doesn't seem like they spent much time inspecting the IANR. From what I understand, they want the train back in Homewood by midnight. I don't know if the eastbound manifest will put a kink in those plans (or the other way around).
-- Grateful Fred Sugar Ridge Tower MP40 CC&P |
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according to my notes, the symbol i have down for OCS they should have ran as train P69931 On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 18:47 Fred Hilgenberg <hilgy1954@...> wrote: I heard that the train symbol was "OCS". It's already on the return trip, as the CN 3309 "wafer logo" was reported eastbound Earlville, IA at 17:22 on the Heritage Units website. Doesn't seem like they spent much time inspecting the IANR. From what I understand, they want the train back in Homewood by midnight. I don't know if the eastbound manifest will put a kink in those plans (or the other way around). |
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Thanks. I didn't know they had a P symbol (P69931) for that move, all I kept hearing was OCS. That's one that is not on the CN train symbol page I was looking at. I am wondering about the axles count. Both times it was 34. With two six axle units for power, that would account for 12 axles out of the 34. Cars that come through here are all 4 axle, but there are 22 axles to account for. Weird.
-- Grateful Fred Sugar Ridge Tower MP40 CC&P |
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