Diamond Junction
As usual to most of the trips to the UP the LS&I was the main goal to try and grab maybe some new to us angles and fill the voids with CN. During our latest trip to gods country the greens were working only the 3pm jobs. After nabbing the U30C duo at Eagle Mills junction I was listening to the 3 Tilden talking to the operator to get their yard instructions. As the operator told the crew their yarding I quickly yelled to Kyle "get in now we have to fucking go." Come to find out due to the condition of the yard the crew ran the west wye and filled out the new yard with their pull however that's not what mattered, what mattered was they would be pulling down across the north M-35 crossing and pulling west to Diamond junction before shoving into New yard.
The last time I had shot a properly lit train on this section of railroad was over 10 years ago and I had never shot diamond junction before this day and its not very common at all to get a well lit train out here. Diamond Junction is still intact but the rails on the left end just a few hundred feet past the signals and turn into a bike path. Here at one point the Soo Line and later WC would use the joint trackage to Ishpeming from Marquette accessing at this point. The final nail in the coffin for the Soo Line section was when the WC got the CNW from Escanaba and being able to rid themselves of the section of railroad from here to Munising in favor of the much shorter section of railroad from Escanaba via Partridge yard to Ishpeming. There were all kinds of other mazes of tracks, realignments and history out here but that is for another day.
Diamond Junction
As usual to most of the trips to the UP the LS&I was the main goal to try and grab maybe some new to us angles and fill the voids with CN. During our latest trip to gods country the greens were working only the 3pm jobs. After nabbing the U30C duo at Eagle Mills junction I was listening to the 3 Tilden talking to the operator to get their yard instructions. As the operator told the crew their yarding I quickly yelled to Kyle "get in now we have to fucking go." Come to find out due to the condition of the yard the crew ran the west wye and filled out the new yard with their pull however that's not what mattered, what mattered was they would be pulling down across the north M-35 crossing and pulling west to Diamond junction before shoving into New yard.
The last time I had shot a properly lit train on this section of railroad was over 10 years ago and I had never shot diamond junction before this day and its not very common at all to get a well lit train out here. Diamond Junction is still intact but the rails on the left end just a few hundred feet past the signals and turn into a bike path. Here at one point the Soo Line and later WC would use the joint trackage to Ishpeming from Marquette accessing at this point. The final nail in the coffin for the Soo Line section was when the WC got the CNW from Escanaba and being able to rid themselves of the section of railroad from here to Munising in favor of the much shorter section of railroad from Escanaba via Partridge yard to Ishpeming. There were all kinds of other mazes of tracks, realignments and history out here but that is for another day.