This is Marquette---LS&I's Presque Isle roundhouse to be exact...this is where the power plant coal pile is now. Notice the variety of paint schemes; The Santa Fe Alligators had just arrived, and a newly maroon painted Alco is just visible, along with U25C's in the yellow sheme.
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Here are two of the 'Gators at West yard.
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Here is a Soo Line train heading west out of downtown Marquette with an F-Unit, a GP35 and a GP9. What I remember most is the incredible sound as they pulled up the grade.
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F-Units were common at the ex DSS&A Soo Line roundhouse in Marquette.
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Fast forward to Saginaw, in March of 1984. I caught GM50, a GP40-2 that was painted gold for GM's 50th anniversary in 1972. Still looking good 12 years later.
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Mick Enright