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C&NW Cedar Lake Shop Lineup
One of the early WGRF meets was in the Twin Cities over the Memorial Day weekend 1968. Here's the lineup at the former M&StL Cedar Lake Shop on May 30, 1968. We pretty much had the run of the town - in some cases organized with release forms but in most cases behave ourselves and just walk in. Many firsts for me. The first WGRF I attended. The first time in a couple years I'd got farther from the U.P. than Green Bay or Duluth - account I had NO formal vacation time on the job for a year and a half after starting at the Groveland Mine. Third, using grey market Kodachrome 25 (price including processing) from either England or France IIRC that Matt Herson of NYC had taken orders for and packed with him on the train all the way to St. Paul. The first time I ever bought a brick (20 rolls) and it was a whole 60 some dollars processing included. I really saved over my previous practice of hitting Erickson gas stations, Target, Snyders (downtown Duluth), Copps discount stores, or whatever. Henceforth, phone calls to NYC would get me a brick on the way to go in the freezer. Fourth - my first glimpse of SOO's brand new U-30Cs, including the group shot on the 806 at Shoreham where I'm sitting in the cab. Fifth - the HUSTLE MUSCLE on a hot Great Northern. And sixth, I gotta quit somewhere - a morning at SPUD, with the steelwork for the Hy. 52 bridge overhead, Es, Fs, passenger GPs, the Builder, the NCL, Morning Hiawatha, Morning Zephyr, all in about 3 hours. WHEW.
C&NW Cedar Lake Shop Lineup
One of the early WGRF meets was in the Twin Cities over the Memorial Day weekend 1968. Here's the lineup at the former M&StL Cedar Lake Shop on May 30, 1968. We pretty much had the run of the town - in some cases organized with release forms but in most cases behave ourselves and just walk in. Many firsts for me. The first WGRF I attended. The first time in a couple years I'd got farther from the U.P. than Green Bay or Duluth - account I had NO formal vacation time on the job for a year and a half after starting at the Groveland Mine. Third, using grey market Kodachrome 25 (price including processing) from either England or France IIRC that Matt Herson of NYC had taken orders for and packed with him on the train all the way to St. Paul. The first time I ever bought a brick (20 rolls) and it was a whole 60 some dollars processing included. I really saved over my previous practice of hitting Erickson gas stations, Target, Snyders (downtown Duluth), Copps discount stores, or whatever. Henceforth, phone calls to NYC would get me a brick on the way to go in the freezer. Fourth - my first glimpse of SOO's brand new U-30Cs, including the group shot on the 806 at Shoreham where I'm sitting in the cab. Fifth - the HUSTLE MUSCLE on a hot Great Northern. And sixth, I gotta quit somewhere - a morning at SPUD, with the steelwork for the Hy. 52 bridge overhead, Es, Fs, passenger GPs, the Builder, the NCL, Morning Hiawatha, Morning Zephyr, all in about 3 hours. WHEW.