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Pot of Gold
A pair of former Milwaukee motors and a C:P Dual Flag lead 271 under stormy skies south of La Crescent, 10 years ago today. This train had broken in two a bit north of New Albin and got back on the move just in the nick of time. To this day, I've never had repeat experience with this kind of lighting.
At this point in time, the Marquette Sub was still a fairly quiet piece of railroad, with 270/271 the only pair of trains to regularly ply these rails. Although, on occasion CP would throw in an extra unit train. A decade later and this is now a vital link in the new CPKC network. Pretty amazing considering that the Milwaukee Road embargoed this route in the early 80's for 3-4 years.
Pot of Gold
A pair of former Milwaukee motors and a C:P Dual Flag lead 271 under stormy skies south of La Crescent, 10 years ago today. This train had broken in two a bit north of New Albin and got back on the move just in the nick of time. To this day, I've never had repeat experience with this kind of lighting.
At this point in time, the Marquette Sub was still a fairly quiet piece of railroad, with 270/271 the only pair of trains to regularly ply these rails. Although, on occasion CP would throw in an extra unit train. A decade later and this is now a vital link in the new CPKC network. Pretty amazing considering that the Milwaukee Road embargoed this route in the early 80's for 3-4 years.