First we see the LS&I's new Ore Cars...............gotcha, actually those are the old LIRR cars, they were painted red because they are strictly for pellet picker service. They also had all of the 100Ton LS&I coal hoppers that the CN was leasing.
Next I headed into Ispheming to see what was happening and found L540 so I went back down to Partridge and ended up catching a meet between SORE-2 and L540. SORE-2 went first with some freight from the mines on it:
Then this nice treat was leading the local!
Then I decided the light was fading to much for train photos so I went up to Marquette, the following were at the Upper Harbor.
DAY 2
Today unlike my summer trip I actually was up around 7am a nice start compared to noon. Anyways, no LS&I sitings today just the Mineral Range and CN.
First was the Mineral Range, I first found him idling away on a section of track for about a half hour.
Who else besides me thinks thats a cool snow plow?
Here he is at the end of the line throwing a switch to reverse into the Fireworks plant.
Around this time I figured the Weigher or CN should be around, I was right, CN was switching the Empire and already had one cut of pellets on the main at partridge. The roads are extremely hazardous right now because of this thaw and freeze every day:
He got a trackwarrant to MP149 I Partridge is around 170 I think, 155 is the passing siding at Little Lake, and 125ish is the passing siding at Brampton so why they were given limits to 149 beats me. Anyways I made my way south figuring a meet was going to occur I was right, sadly it was all the way in Brampton some 50ish miles on the main roads. Anyway heres the train they would meet in Brampton L540
Here is the SORE train a few miles away along M35 where it curves into Perkins.
And that was my day so far. Tomorrow is a new day.
