Timing is Everything
While out for a brief period this morning I heard UP's twice-weekly Duluth transfer calling from Tower Avenue in Superior to come across Grassy Point Draw. At roughly the same time a CN light power move called RTC for authority to come down Proctor Hill to Missabe Junction.
I thought there might be an outside chance of seeing both at the Junction given the distances each needed to travel were similar. While waiting for them to show up the UP train called BNSF's Duluth remote job asking what their status was. They said they were about done at Rices Point and would be using the westbound to the paper mill. Hum...
As I stood on the 27th Avenue West overpass next to the sewage plant I watched as the UP train slowly worked toward my position and the CN light power set eased down the ramp into the Junction yard. The CN crew got off to switch ends before heading down the hole track just as the UP train came around the curve. Over my shoulder I could hear the BNSF job rolling west. The stars aligned perfectly with a rolling meet between the UP and BNSF immediately west of the bridge and the CN power still in the shot directly above.
The smell from the sewage plant was ripe, but this meet was refreshingly sweet.
Timing is Everything
While out for a brief period this morning I heard UP's twice-weekly Duluth transfer calling from Tower Avenue in Superior to come across Grassy Point Draw. At roughly the same time a CN light power move called RTC for authority to come down Proctor Hill to Missabe Junction.
I thought there might be an outside chance of seeing both at the Junction given the distances each needed to travel were similar. While waiting for them to show up the UP train called BNSF's Duluth remote job asking what their status was. They said they were about done at Rices Point and would be using the westbound to the paper mill. Hum...
As I stood on the 27th Avenue West overpass next to the sewage plant I watched as the UP train slowly worked toward my position and the CN light power set eased down the ramp into the Junction yard. The CN crew got off to switch ends before heading down the hole track just as the UP train came around the curve. Over my shoulder I could hear the BNSF job rolling west. The stars aligned perfectly with a rolling meet between the UP and BNSF immediately west of the bridge and the CN power still in the shot directly above.
The smell from the sewage plant was ripe, but this meet was refreshingly sweet.