Joshua Dudinetz
Rare Move
In a scene that has probably never played out before, a former Montana Rail Link SD35 leads a loaded grain train west on Genesse & Wyoming’s Mid Michigan Railroad at Merrill, Michigan. With the need to move the entire train of 105 loads from the elevator in Hemlock to the GLC interchange in Alma in one piece (something the MMRR’s single four-axel would be far from capable of) a trio of GLC locomotives were brought in to get the train over the road. GLC power on this portion of railroad is about a once-a-year occurance, and when I saw the MRL 705 in Laurel, Montana in August of 2019, I don’t think I could possibly have been convinced that just three years later I’d be watching it pull it’s guts out on a lightly used shoreline branch less than a half hour from my home in Mid Michigan, but here we are.
Rare Move
In a scene that has probably never played out before, a former Montana Rail Link SD35 leads a loaded grain train west on Genesse & Wyoming’s Mid Michigan Railroad at Merrill, Michigan. With the need to move the entire train of 105 loads from the elevator in Hemlock to the GLC interchange in Alma in one piece (something the MMRR’s single four-axel would be far from capable of) a trio of GLC locomotives were brought in to get the train over the road. GLC power on this portion of railroad is about a once-a-year occurance, and when I saw the MRL 705 in Laurel, Montana in August of 2019, I don’t think I could possibly have been convinced that just three years later I’d be watching it pull it’s guts out on a lightly used shoreline branch less than a half hour from my home in Mid Michigan, but here we are.