Transfer to Itasca
With the marine layer of clouds hangin' tough on a Sunday morning my Conductor was sent to play brakeman (uTiLiTy) with the 0200 Pokey yard job (technically a local freight) after we brought our 9,000 foot, 40 tons over the notch 7 restriction Q down from Ranier. I told Jeff we were getting bagels when we got done but then this kinda fucked it up so I went to get bagels and then surprised him and Penny over at UP's Itasca Yard on the far east side of Superior. And then y'know, took a few photos in the process. These jobs regardless of their symbol are usually called the "Peg transfer" regardless of whether it's performing interchange with BNSF at 28th Street (NP-GN), CP at Stinson (SOO) or UP here at Itasca (CNW) in deference to this being a tradition Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific assignment.
Here a standard triple of twin ports SW1500s (Dash 9s) is stopped to swap ends after shoving off the UP interchange
Transfer to Itasca
With the marine layer of clouds hangin' tough on a Sunday morning my Conductor was sent to play brakeman (uTiLiTy) with the 0200 Pokey yard job (technically a local freight) after we brought our 9,000 foot, 40 tons over the notch 7 restriction Q down from Ranier. I told Jeff we were getting bagels when we got done but then this kinda fucked it up so I went to get bagels and then surprised him and Penny over at UP's Itasca Yard on the far east side of Superior. And then y'know, took a few photos in the process. These jobs regardless of their symbol are usually called the "Peg transfer" regardless of whether it's performing interchange with BNSF at 28th Street (NP-GN), CP at Stinson (SOO) or UP here at Itasca (CNW) in deference to this being a tradition Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific assignment.
Here a standard triple of twin ports SW1500s (Dash 9s) is stopped to swap ends after shoving off the UP interchange