Meet me in Pembine... Part 2 of 4
The Channing crew with the E&LS 502 arrived Pembine and started making a few switching moves at the wood yard north of the CN diamond. After picking up a couple cars they pulled to the south end of the various sidings and sat for a few minutes. I couldn't quite figure out what was up when the E&LS 501 with a Crivitz crew called out their arrival... so they were waiting for a meet! The Channing crew asked the Crivitz crew how big of a train they had. The reply... "It's YUGE! It's biggest, best train you've ever seen. Just great."
The Crivitz crew cut off the train just short of the siding leaving the Channing crew to pull it up onto the interchange track to get it out of the way (in the foreground), and then went to retrieve the southbound train. And a few minutes later this meet went off just south of the CN diamond as the Crivitz crew with the 501 departed back toward Green Bay. Pretty good in my book to have shot two trains on the E&LS at once! And that was already better than I thought I might do in E&LS land.
The busy U.S. 141 cuts through Pembine in the foreground. On this particular Wednesday tourist traffic was pretty low but lots of cars (presumably local residents) were still cutting through town and stopping regularly at the local post office, bank, and other various businesses. Unfortunately, last year some delinquents set the beautiful wood depot on fire here at Pembine, leaving nothing but the concrete slab at the corner of the diamonds. The diamond was originally the crossing of the Soo Line headed towards Rhinelander and eventually the Twin Cities (portions of which are still operated by the CN) with the Milwaukee Road from Green Bay into the Upper Peninsula (now the E&LS). It's one of the lesser used diamond crossings in Wisconsin, but still sees regular movements on both railroads from what I understand.
Meet me in Pembine... Part 2 of 4
The Channing crew with the E&LS 502 arrived Pembine and started making a few switching moves at the wood yard north of the CN diamond. After picking up a couple cars they pulled to the south end of the various sidings and sat for a few minutes. I couldn't quite figure out what was up when the E&LS 501 with a Crivitz crew called out their arrival... so they were waiting for a meet! The Channing crew asked the Crivitz crew how big of a train they had. The reply... "It's YUGE! It's biggest, best train you've ever seen. Just great."
The Crivitz crew cut off the train just short of the siding leaving the Channing crew to pull it up onto the interchange track to get it out of the way (in the foreground), and then went to retrieve the southbound train. And a few minutes later this meet went off just south of the CN diamond as the Crivitz crew with the 501 departed back toward Green Bay. Pretty good in my book to have shot two trains on the E&LS at once! And that was already better than I thought I might do in E&LS land.
The busy U.S. 141 cuts through Pembine in the foreground. On this particular Wednesday tourist traffic was pretty low but lots of cars (presumably local residents) were still cutting through town and stopping regularly at the local post office, bank, and other various businesses. Unfortunately, last year some delinquents set the beautiful wood depot on fire here at Pembine, leaving nothing but the concrete slab at the corner of the diamonds. The diamond was originally the crossing of the Soo Line headed towards Rhinelander and eventually the Twin Cities (portions of which are still operated by the CN) with the Milwaukee Road from Green Bay into the Upper Peninsula (now the E&LS). It's one of the lesser used diamond crossings in Wisconsin, but still sees regular movements on both railroads from what I understand.