Point Rail January 2011

Note the new white horizontal antenna on the new tower south of the Stevens Point depot.

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WC 315 Jordan Spreader was parked by the depot for a few days in mid-January. I read that it's in Green Bay Feb 4th, after they got some snow from the big storm (and we didn't get any!)

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And I ran my spreader at the Arctic Run model railroad show in Stevens Point. I'll have to make a new separate web page about my fun HO size model snow plows.

The days are getting longer but not quite enough yet for easy photography.

Ore trains are running but this is the most I have seen of them

The blue GT has been going to the Whiting mill. I don't know the final days when the mill closes and this switch job won't be here anymore. And I see a black IC (1036) also working our area now.

The usual switch engines are working the Point yard

A switch engine or two sit in Plover overnight.

There's plenty of main line trains. On a Saturday morning there seems to be a crowd of east -west meets between 9 and 11 am. Then a lull, and the switch job from Plover / Whiting P-line comes in. After noon, the Waupaca turn heads east and that's when the mainline trains disappear for two hours.

Missed a great sunshine morning picture at the Wisconsin River in Rapids. Had to climb a 12 foot pile of plowed snow and didn't have time to cross the peaks of the 'Himalayas' to get an un-obstructed view. Have several cloudy morning pictures, but sunshine is better.

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And a grafitti artist might have predicted Winter. We didn't get anything but cold air from the snow storm that buried Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin.

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