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Creeping at 10 mph along Lake Michigamme while en route from Ishpeming to L'Anse is CN train L53981-05 with a pair of Ex-Oakway SD60's leading the way. It's a beautiful autumn day in the U.P. and there's definitely some fantastic fall foliage out there.
This is the former DSS&A, now CN Marquette Range Sub. 10/5/21.
CN L539 rolls into Michigamme, Michigan on the former DSS&A after a brief pause in lake effect snow showers.
The color scheme on DSS&A 101 fits nicely with fall foliage along the Sucker River between Duluth and Two Harbors. This RS-1 rarely has an opportunity to get out on the line so it was a real treat to get it this weekend as it powered special charters.
Not in the best of shape, but the DS&SA's section house in the remote and mostly abandoned railroad settlement known as "Herman" still stands as well as an abandoned storefront to the right that faces the quiet mainline. Once the route of the joint SOO-DSSA/Milwaukee "Copper Country Limited" Herman sees trains only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and always in daylight. Here the L'anse job heads back towards Ishpeming.
A pair of ex-Oakway SD60s drag the L'Anse Job along the Spurr River near Three Lakes, Michigan on ex-DSS&A rails.
NSR 193 766 met Nightjet Zürich in Hollandsche Rading
HOLLANDSCHE RADING: in het kader van het project DSSA zal Amsterdam Centraal de komende jaren flink op de schop gaan. Dit leidt tot een groot aantal perioden met werkzaamheden waarbij er zowel gedeeltelijk als geen treinverkeer van, naar of via CS mogelijk is. In het weekend van 25 en 26 juni 2022 waren er werkzaamheden tussen CS en het Muiderpoortstation aan de zuidelijke sporen, waardoor er geen direct treinverkeer mogelijk was tussen 020 en 030.
Om het internationale treinverkeer wel doorgang te kunnen bieden, is er gebruik gemaakt van de omleidingsroute over Hilversum. Vanaf Utrecht Centraal rijden de treinen via Blauwkapel richting Hilversum en Weesp, zodat de trein na Muiderpoort over de noordelijke sporen van de Dijksgracht naar het CS kan rijden.
Eén van deze omgeleide treinen was de Nightjet Zürich welke nog altijd uit de mooie rijtuigenmix bestaat. Het traject tussen Blauwkapel en Hilversum Sportpark heeft nog altijd de fraaie "Gotische portalen", waardoor een foto op dit baanvak toch wel gewenst was. Waar ik het regelmatig in de bijschriften heb over de zon, was het voor deze foto juist belangrijk om géén zon te hebben, aangezien er geen goed-voor-de-zon-stekken zijn met de boogjes waarbij de volledige treinlengte vrij is. Daarnaast is de lijn ook aardig verbroddeld door de hekkenafdeling van de Nederlandse spoorinfrabeheerder.
"Gelukkig" was op het moment van passage bewolkt genoeg om een plaatje te maken op een hekvrije stek van de 193 766 met de gebruikelijke samenstelling uit Zwitserland als trein 402 naar Amsterdam Centraal.
Datum: 26 juni 2022 8:49u
Locatie: Station Hollandsche Rading, Hollandsche Rading
Two CN SD60s drag the L'Anse Job into the community of Champion, Michigan. A few miles up the road, the L'Anse Sub will divert to ex-LS&I rails for the final miles towards Ishpeming.
CN L539, the L'Anse Job, breaks the winter silence of the quiet community of Nestoria, Michigan, the rails still covered with fresh snow from several hours of lake effect snow. The train did not make it out of L'Anse the previous evening resulting in a rare Friday run eastbound on the former DSS&A.
Nestoria was the location of the junction between the DSS&A mainline between Duluth and Marquette and the original mainline towards the copper mines of the Keeweenaw Peninsula. A passenger depot once stood on the left, and the community was a stop on the Milwaukee Road's Copper Country Limited (running on DSS&A trackage rights west of Champion) until its discontinuation in 1968.
The crew from a Soo Line freight arriving in Marquette, Michigan, quickly puts GP38-2 No. 4411 (and Sister 4401) to bed in the roundhouse on October 25, 1986. Looking at Google Maps today, and it is almost impossible to tell where this roundhouse was. A more recent 2014 article about Marquette redevelopment plans states a new large hospital was being built directly on top of the site.
After arriving from the east on the former DSS&A line from Munising, Soo Line GP38-2 No. 4411 takes a spin on the turntable before going to bed in the roundhouse at Marquette, Michigan, on October 25, 1986.
With the inbound train properly blocked, the first move upon arriving at L'Anse was to take these three empties off the rear and run them back up the hill to Bovine. It's been years since I've watched them switch the wood yard and at that time they did it on the way out of town as their last move. Doing it as a separate move worked pretty slick, they even placed the FRED on the rear for this short move. Even better, the morning light was still good for recording the scene. September 13, 2022.
Coming back towards the depot passing under the Fitgers Brewery, DSS&A RS-1 101 and it's private train look good on this warm but gloomy day.
A slight delay when they left Palmers siding provided just enough time to dispatch some foreground trees and brush here at the French River bridge.
The road here is still named Mead for the original owner of this wood yard. Plenty of wood was loaded here and routed through Trout Lake before returning west to the big paper mill in Escanaba. As the mill has changed hands so has the yard here, including New Page and now Verso. Rail traffic from here can fluctuate quite a bit so it's good to see the spur getting some use. Since the WC picked up UP's ore line in 1997 the trip to Escanaba has been considerably shorter.
At left the mainline into L'Anse drops down the hill towards the bay. At right a trucker unloads logs in the yard. September 13, 2022.
It was a sweet sight and sound to catch former DSS&A Alco RS-1 No. 101 in service after repairs (thanks in part to Alco mechanics from MD&W). Here the 101 smokes it up running long-hood-forward as designed. This NSSR train was going to pick up pine trees to help decorate the museum area for the Christmas City Express.
CP 2273 passes the connection track to the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic off of the Soo Line at 28th Street in Superior catching some sun in the process before its arrival to Stinson Yard.
Daylight view of the home signal to CN's CTC "island" in Two Harbors from 2011. CN is installing CTC all the way from Two Harbors to Allen Junction as part of its PTC upgrades.
Merry Christmas to all my friends on here. Our 8 year old was quite restrained this year and held off until 5:55 to drag the rest of us out of bed. Plenty of Christmas magic here, I hope it finds you as well.
As for this year's "card". A nice memory from 25 years ago. A pair of loaner SD9s had spent the holiday in L'Anse. On the 26th a crew arrived to put the outbound train together. The sun was shining in L'Anse but as is often the case up here at the top of the hill clouds and snow prevailed. Plenty of fresh snow covered the tracks since the train came in a couple days prior, not a problem for these sure-footed veterans of the iron ranges across the big lake.
December 26, 1995.
CN L539, the L'Anse Job, crosses the Peshekee River near Champion, Michigan behind a pair of ex-Oakway SD60s. The bridge in the foreground is Trunk Line Bridge #1, built in 1914 by the Michigan State Highway Department (a predecessor of MDOT) and formerly carried Route 41 across the river.
Built in 1945, it was delivered to the DSSA in June of that year. In 2002, the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society purchased the 101 and donated it to the LSRM in August of 2017. It is operational.
A new Canadian National GE ET44AC (Tier 4) at the location known locally "Stonehenge" near Rockmont, WI.
Stonehenge is the name given for the location of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway bridge abutments over the former North Western mainline.
In August 1994 we find WC 4007 tied down awaiting her next assignment. Hard to believe that back in 1994 a WC unit already had some raggedy looking paint. Image scanned from a slide and tweaked.
A pair of Ex-Oakway SD60's pass under a deactivated cantilever on the LS&I Republic Sub at Negaunee as they lead CN train L54081-23. They're heading for Partridge, where they'll leave their cars for CN train L549, a job out of Gladstone, MI, and return as light power to CN's Euclid Yard at Ishpeming.
These days this CN local is the only remaining traffic through here, but this section of railroad has seen much more traffic in decades past. For years, this was a triple joint line was shared by the LS&I, CNW and DSS&A, the three major ore-hauling railroads in the Upper Peninsula. Years later, the SOO, WC and even UP for a brief period ran this way.
As time marched on, mines closed and traffic dwindled, prompting the CTC to be decommissioned on this line. LS&I no longer runs this way, though they still do own track up to Landing JCT at Ishpeming.
Though no longer active, the signals do make nice photo props along with the code line poles. 7/23/21.
The conductor guides the move onto the spur curving into the wood yard. The cars will be out of sight behind the woodpiles once they reach the spot. I don't know the gradient of the spur but it's considerably more gentle than the main track. In another place and time this would probably function as a runaway track.
September 13, 2022.
(SEE & HEAR)----WC, Wisconsin Central SD45's #7507- #7504, with ore jennies loaded with taconite. The southbound Sore-1 is headed for Escanaba and is at Goose Lake, Michigan. October 11, 2003. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
You can see this scene in my Youtube link and my "SEE & HEAR" series.
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Locomotive history,
WC #7507---ex-BN #6507
WC #7504---ex-BN #6504
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After working L'Anse before sunrise L539 is working up hill past the D-15 Spur. It had been several years at this point that the log yard had seen log cars but shortly after this the spur came to life and is once again being used to load logs. While it is nice to see the site used again it is a real pain in the ass for crews. The D-15 Spur sits on a 2.38% grade that rolls right down to Lake Superior and requires the crew to leave their train at the bottom of the hill or to set every single hand brake on the cars left on the main. Just ahead the hill levels out to a .19% grade and then in just over a mile the hill goes back to a 3.04% grade which is the steepest part of the former DSSA from Marquette to L'Anse.
WC westbound local freight from Trout Lake to Marquette) with 9 cars @1750 behind two SDL39 (583-584.) This re-post was taken along the "Seney Stretch", a long bit of straight track on the route of the MIGHTY Duluth South Shore & Atlantic between Trout Lake, where it crossed the Minneapolis, St.Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (thankfully shortened to Soo Line) and Marquette. Those wildflowers look a lot better in this version. Highway M-28 follows the whole stretch, and the leisurely pace - speed limit 25mph I believe - made a chase very relaxing. If I had gotten this train before a third SDL39 was set out at Newberry, I would have had three. But I'd rather not slip into "WWFW" mode; Marson and Leopard know what I mean.
In spring 1997 the remote control caboose had moved on and White Pine trains were back to two-man crews. Green-up in the north doesn't usually kick in until late May and that's evident on grey slopes of the Trap Hills. A healthy train of boxcars trails the single GP40 north of Bergland. May 17, 1997.
The White Pine Sub traverses mile upon mile of northwoods wilderness only touching a couple tiny towns in 77 miles. Saxon, WI is one of those towns where an eastbound train is seen passing through "downtown". Saxon had been a two railroad town for many years served by the DSS&A and C&NW who crossed each other at grade west of town. Those familiar with operations at this time will know this wasn't a caboose hop but a one man crew with remote control equipment housed in the old Algoma Central hack. August 29, 1995.
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Ray Buhrmaster image, DSS&A depot with Chief Wawatam ferry boat at dock in background at St Ignace, MI August 21, 1973.
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It's TRAINS, plural, time at Calumet Michigan on January 28 1964. Somewhat of a traffic jam actually. Details? It started with the Copper Country Limited arriving with the MILW 32C and 100B. After unloading mail and passengers it has wyed south of town and backed up to the station in the rear left. Following the CCL north, a short freight with SOO, ex DSS&A 389 arrived and wyed, then backed into town also and did some switching work north of the depot (behind the CCL). While all this was going on, the plow extra SOO 100 (ex DSS&A 100) with the Jordan's wings extended widened out the wye south of town and backed into town for beans, occupying a short yard track to the right. What we have now is the freight a-chuffa-chuffa-chuffa as only a Baldwin could do out of town headed back to Houghton. All in a day's railfaning while Clint Jones and I probably cut a couple classes to take this in.
Certain dates ring a bell, in this case July 17. I'm two days late posting this shot from 58 years ago, July 17, 1958, of Baldwin 201. This shot and the scan isn't book publication quality but probably worth sharing on Flickr for posterity. It was taken on the same day as several of my LS&I steam shots at Ishpeming which appear in Dave Schauer's fine LS&I book. The exact location is unknown, so I've just called it Negaunee. This Ektachrome is somewhat corrected from the fading that affected most all those older E-4 process slides. And you may note it's the first shot on the roll, with a bit of light leak at the left. It may actually be in Ishpeming on the original line before the later bypass was built. Michigan iron ore hauling roads certainly had their own character quite different from the heavy duty latest development Minnesota roads. And the boxcar in the background carries the famous slogan "Route Superior Gateway for Superior Service".
Hard to beat this view at my favorite Marquette restaurant, the Vierling Saloon. A great Lake Superior whitefish dinner washed down with their excellent mico-brew. Only thing that could make this better would have been a DSS&A Baldwin shoving a string of cars out to the dock. Don't bet my mind didn't wander along those lines as I looked out over this golden early evening scene.
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Soo Line BLW DRS66-1500 diesel locomotive 386 (ex DSS&A 202) with freight train passing yard of ore cars near Negaunee, MI on September 9, 1963.
Local L543 has arrived into Trout Lake and will make quick work of putting their train away before cabbing to to the hotel in the Soo. Once an important diamond between the DSSA and Soo Line is now just another location on the CN with a still standing depot. The tracks still run north of here to Munising and will soon be part of Watco's new purchase/lease. The tracks south of here to Saint Ignace have been ripped up for decades now.
CN L539 has just departed Euclid yard, which is hiding behind the next hill in the distance, and is now on the former joint trackage between Naguanee and Ishpeming were the LSI, CNW and DSSA all shared at one time to reach their own ore lines. The sun has only just topped the horizon a few minutes prior casting the warm light into the valley below, 539 is on its way to Partridge yard where they will hand off their traffic to L549 from Gladstone and head back to Euclid for the weekend. Mount Boner is, from what we can tell, an unnammed hill off of Malton road that has been claimed by our good friend and now local to the area as his and now named as such.
Happy Thanksgiving! Safe travels to everyone!
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Ray Buhrmaster image, Milwaukee Road-Soo Line, last run of passenger train #9 Copper Country Ltd on ex DSS&A trackage at Houghton, MI March 8, 1968.
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Westbound from the Soo stops at the junction point of Trout Lake to make a pickup and setoff. The station was joint Soo Line and DSSA
Somehow, probably with Clint Jones this day, we have made our way to Calumet. We might have somehow bummed a ride on the CCL, hitchhiked, or who knows. The Copper Country Limited has arrived and unloaded its passengers and mail at the Calumet depot and is backing up to wye and then return to the depot properly facing south for its return trip in the late afternoon. Behind it is the remains of the old Mineral Range roundhouse. The photo is taken from the C&H overpass from the shops area to west of Calumet.
Another Ray gem!
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Ray Buhrmaster image, Soo Line 390 (ex DSS&A 206) with freight train passing Mineral Range roundhouse at Calumet, MI, September 4, 1963.
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IIRC, that's the train number for the St. Ignace to Superior run in this 1958 era shot probably about mid day on a Sunday. A good story would be we'd visited relatives in West Duluth and were headed back home to Ironwood via the Arrowhead bridge, Billings Park, and 21st Street over to the East End and stumbled on this. Never saw active South Shore power here again. The landscape is pretty barren in the background, perhaps it's late winter or early spring. Everything here is gone.
The further story is this shot was "lost" in our move from Woodbury to FL 10 years ago, and just recently found in with some other "junk" black and white negatives of the 50s and 60s. This was in my "economy" mode when shooting 35mm Plus-X was considerably cheaper than buying 620 roll film for my other camera particularly when shooting "common" stuff like this.
In spite of its lack of quality, I thought I'd let it see the light of day before it's "lost" again.
WC 3023 eases down the mainline past the string of "braking" boxcars at Bergland, MI. These ex-Soo Line 40 foot cars stayed on the siding here for occasional use on the steep grade into White Pine. Bergland's old DSS&A depot can be seen on the north side of the tracks. The train, depot and boxcars are all gone from Bergland in 2020. The rails remain, but for how long? May 12, 1996.