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Flashback Friday
Takes us to LaCrosse, WI August of 2008.
Because of old MILW road miles based contractual obligations, the road switch jobs out of LaCrosse paired St. Paul conductors with Portage engineers. Since one job went east to serve customers all the way to Tomah (about 40 miles), Portage conductors could 'recapture' the miles. With only having three years of seniority, I could hold this day job with weekends off. Occasionally my brakeman was a 40 year veteran.
Most days we would take cars over the Mississippi river to La Crescent, MN to interchange with the ICE railroad. Road switchers had little priority over road trains and today is no exception. Here we are waiting for train 891 to pass and we will follow him west.
Three MRL units were assigned to the 890/891 train set for about a month.
The shot was taken shortly after a rain shower. Looks like the weed sprayer needs to come through the yard.
Flashback Friday
Takes us to LaCrosse, WI August of 2008.
Because of old MILW road miles based contractual obligations, the road switch jobs out of LaCrosse paired St. Paul conductors with Portage engineers. Since one job went east to serve customers all the way to Tomah (about 40 miles), Portage conductors could 'recapture' the miles. With only having three years of seniority, I could hold this day job with weekends off. Occasionally my brakeman was a 40 year veteran.
Most days we would take cars over the Mississippi river to La Crescent, MN to interchange with the ICE railroad. Road switchers had little priority over road trains and today is no exception. Here we are waiting for train 891 to pass and we will follow him west.
Three MRL units were assigned to the 890/891 train set for about a month.
The shot was taken shortly after a rain shower. Looks like the weed sprayer needs to come through the yard.