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As I was shooting the Indiana Southern train in the previous shot, I received word that a loaded coal train was about to head out of Bear Run Mine. Hearing a warrant for INRD 9011 given over the radio, I was expecting a couple of their SD9043MAC's with a 100 car train for Merom Power Plant; instead, I got this train layout sized train of former C&NW hoppers with coal headed to a paper mill in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Not quite what I was expecting, but now I have a prototype for when my model railroad pals tell me that my short train isn't for real!
Bear Run Mine, IN Train symbol CBRHW.
Photo by John Eagan
(Title inspired by a song by Kate Bush that I was singing to myself as I photographed the train!)
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As I was shooting the Indiana Southern train in the previous shot, I received word that a loaded coal train was about to head out of Bear Run Mine. Hearing a warrant for INRD 9011 given over the radio, I was expecting a couple of their SD9043MAC's with a 100 car train for Merom Power Plant; instead, I got this train layout sized train of former C&NW hoppers with coal headed to a paper mill in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Not quite what I was expecting, but now I have a prototype for when my model railroad pals tell me that my short train isn't for real!
Bear Run Mine, IN Train symbol CBRHW.
Photo by John Eagan
(Title inspired by a song by Kate Bush that I was singing to myself as I photographed the train!)