Detroit Railfanning

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GTW GP38-2 4907 in Ferndale, MI this afternoon

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Amtrak Wolverine, taken earlier this month in Detroit's New Center

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Caught some CP and CN action this afternoon

A trio of CP Rail SD40-2s with an NS C40-9W at NS Oakwood Yard in Melvindale, MI. Lucked out with the lighting













CN manifest in Ferndale, MI. The second engine is an Illinois Central unit


Two miles up the track I caught this CN intermodal in Royal Oak, MI. This train originated at the CN Moterm Intermodal facility in Ferndale.

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Some more from this afternoon

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Caught two trains tonight on my evening bike ride

Westbound with a CN Dash-9, ES44DC, and a GTW GP9R




Two minutes later an eastbound freight came by with a BC Dash-8CM and a CN ES44DC

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And on non-train pic from this afternoon. CWB Marquis, operated by Algoma Central for the Canadian Wheat Board on the Detroit River. That is Windsor, Canada in the background, to the south

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Another morning at Oakwood













CP 8876 was specially for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics

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This afternoon in Romulus, MI











Back-to-back CP trains

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Spent an hour at Milwaukee Junction and caught a bunch of trains

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Some trains from yesterday

Conrail vehicle train. This train is normally run long hood forward


CN SD70M-2 being turned on the wye to lead an intermodal train long hood forward up to Ferndale, MI





GTW local





CN freight with a GTW GP9R




CSX local at Rougemere Yard in Dearborn, MI

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From this week



Delray Junction


Delray Connecting hot metal train





GTW 4907




Conrail crane








Electric arches on the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton (now Grand Trunk Western)

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Spent the afternoon catching trains

GTW 5857 under the electric arches on the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton




NS vehicle train at Oakwood Yard


Ex-N&W SD40-2 6152 with high bell. Set up for remote operations at Oakwood


NS 5212. Remote unit


CP ethanol train


CSX intermodal on the Lincoln Secondary


CP T28 at Delray Junction




CP intermodal transfer headed to Oak Yard


Light power at Romulus




CSX Q335


CP manifest


CSX Q322 in Romulus


Q322 in Wayne


NS local switching coil cars on the NS side of Wayne Yard


CSX switching autoracks at the Ford Focus plant


Q322 in Plymouth

[J. S. Bach]

Spent the afternoon catching trains
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Ex-N&W SD40-2 6152 with high bell. Set up for remote operations at Oakwood

NS 5212. Remote unit

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Lets hope that they are not using DCS!

[rogruth]

Dave,