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Greenland, CO
April 15, 2023
A very foggy flocked snowy spring sunrise at Greenland, CO under the Palmer Divide.
This 14'x16' cabin was built in 1867 by George W. Palmer who lived in it with his wife and 10 children. Between 1875 and 1880, a 10'x12' lean-to was added to the rear of the cabin. They continued to live in the cabin until 1895 when it was sold to Lawrence & Ida Mumford Epard who lived in the cabin for nearly 40 years.
608 pulls down to the south end of Palmer Yard to re-organize their train for their trip south to Willimantic.
7-Tilden approaches the Tilden mine on its second mine run of the morning. We are in the community of Palmer located behind the Empire mine, idled in 2016.
CSX B740 arrives in Palmer from West Springfield with a huge train for the NECR and Mass Central interchange.
With freshly snow capped peaks of the Talkeetna Mountains standing above, Alaska railroad 4005 leads the AS&G gravel train down the siding at Matanuska junction to meet the northbound MEX. The peaks of these mountains were just about bare when we arrived the week prior to this and as you can see they got a good dumping of fresh snow in that week. The line to the right in the photo is the Palmer branch where the AS&G loads just a couple miles up the line and is the only train to traverse the branch these days. The mainline is out of view and hidden in the woods to the left. The AS&G and QAP gravel trains run in a 1x1 configuration these days cutting out the need for a shoving platform or a run around move even though the AS&G will still shove down from the load out using the wye here at the junction to prevent having to change ends.
It's a gorgeous early winter morning as CSXT train M436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) pauses on the controlled siding to make a set in Palmer Yard about 1.4 miles west of the diamond at CP83 on CSXT's Boston Sub mainline (the once and always Boston and Albany Railroad). They had an interesting assortment of power on the head end this day in the form of two CSXT AC4400s leading an SD40-2 and two Union Pacific visitors.
Palmer, Massachusetts
Friday December 30, 2022
D8 crests the southbound grade at Palmers (McCabe's crossing) still in the power pulling loads onto the downhill. In the distance is the local Farmer's Market, quiet today but draws a big crowd on the weekends. The green set has been reliable all week, while the 5509 is awaiting parts where it belongs.