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Title:
Chasing ELS F-Unit 600 4/20/2008 Part 1 - Leaving Green Bay
Description:
The Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad purchased this ex-Milwaukee Road EMD F7 in 2005 from the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, where it had operated in occasional excursion service as WSOR 71A. Prior to that, it was Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad 96A. I rode excursions pulled by it in both incarnations. Here we see the venerable F-unit in regular freight service, leading ex-RMSX SD9 ELS 1221 out of Green Bay in a lashup straight from the 1950s. First the train crosses the Duck Creek bridge and the Riverview Drive grade crossing, the same location where we just saw CN L536 coming in from the north. Next we see the train crossing Velp Avenue, on the connecting track between the CN Marinette Subdivision and the ELS' parallel ex-Milwaukee Road trackage. The freight cars on the left at the end of the video are in storage on the old main through downtown, which is abandoned between Bond Street and the ex-Milwaukee Road yard. The connector was installed to allow ELS to run straight through to the ex-C&NW North Green Bay Yard, now the hub of GB area operations in the WC/CN eras. Then it's on to Part 2...
Author:
HighIronofWisconsin
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train, railroad, railway, railfan, Escanaba, and, Lake, Superior, ELS, E&LS, EMD, F7, F7A, F-unit, SD9, locomotive,
Chasing ELS F-Unit 600 4/20/2008 Part 1 - Leaving Green Bay
Description:
The Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad purchased this ex-Milwaukee Road EMD F7 in 2005 from the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, where it had operated in occasional excursion service as WSOR 71A. Prior to that, it was Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad 96A. I rode excursions pulled by it in both incarnations. Here we see the venerable F-unit in regular freight service, leading ex-RMSX SD9 ELS 1221 out of Green Bay in a lashup straight from the 1950s. First the train crosses the Duck Creek bridge and the Riverview Drive grade crossing, the same location where we just saw CN L536 coming in from the north. Next we see the train crossing Velp Avenue, on the connecting track between the CN Marinette Subdivision and the ELS' parallel ex-Milwaukee Road trackage. The freight cars on the left at the end of the video are in storage on the old main through downtown, which is abandoned between Bond Street and the ex-Milwaukee Road yard. The connector was installed to allow ELS to run straight through to the ex-C&NW North Green Bay Yard, now the hub of GB area operations in the WC/CN eras. Then it's on to Part 2...
Author:
HighIronofWisconsin
Tags:
train, railroad, railway, railfan, Escanaba, and, Lake, Superior, ELS, E&LS, EMD, F7, F7A, F-unit, SD9, locomotive,
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