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After the traffic clears |
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The eastbound Soo/ CP local waits in the clear, having a "late lunch" while waiting for other traffic to pass. This was because there was probably not enough time for them to tie up main line at Sparta while doing their local work! So ok Mister Dispatcher, I guess we'll just sit here on the siding and watch the parade go by, while we have lunch! It works for us! In fact if you don't mind, we'll be a short distance down the street getting something to eat! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:03 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:04 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:05 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:06 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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After the traffic clears |
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And so there the train sat, waiting in the clear. The leaving signal remained red because the switch was against them. I like these ctc signals. Perhaps I was not sure about them "in the beginning" as they are a "little bit" different! Notice the signals are controlled and interlinked by mircowave radio. You can see the directional antenna on top of the pole beside the signal house. Perhaps there is more going on in this picture than someone might first think or see! All it takes to see these things is a little understanding, and a little bit of time spent to look and then to see! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:08 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:09 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:10 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:12 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:13 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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On different days the power consist can be and often times is different! But after a while, you can look at the train and see that there is another car of heavy timber for the tie plant and behind the blue DM&E gons is some more lumber for Sparta! It is fun when you begin to know and see these things! If for no other reason, than to know in which direction and where you should go to take get that next picture! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:14 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:15 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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As I was getting tired of waiting, I headed back home as we live across the street from mp263. And then sure enough, here comes a westbound! By the way, No the American flag is NOT mounted on the engine as it might first seem, but it is in the yard behind the fence! Nice picture, eh?! For sure or at least I think so! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:16 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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And so in the short time that it took the westbound train to pass, there I was back at the "County Road J" crossing and at the east end of the Bangor siding in the small village commonly called Rockland. It was a very short walk down the old CNW right of way, which is now a state trail used by hikers, bicycles and snow mobiles. This trail is 101 miles long and is divided into four parts. The part in front of our house is called the La Crosse River trail as this river is about a half mile to the north. |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:18 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:18 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:22 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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The past and the present! The Old Milwaukee main is still there even if it is not now double track. The Passenger trains still run each way every day, even if it is now Amtrak. The Amish farms and their horses are still here pulling their buggys and their farm equipment. The CNW trains to and from Winona are also still here 4 times a week, that is 2 days each way. And the old CNW right of way is also still here, but it is now known as the La Crosse River trail. It is used by hikers, bicycles, and snow mobiles! And as for the local, if you like the older EMD non-computerized, not so high horsepower engines, while they are also still here. You just have to know when and where to look because the echoes of the things of the past, they are also still here if you know when and where to look for them! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:22 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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The Soo/ CP east local from La Crosse waits in the clear. You can see the old CNW right of way which is now the La Crosse River trail on the right hand side of the picture. This was a part or section of that line which came across southern Minnesota from South Dakota. It crossed the Milwaukee double track at Tower CK, just north or west of Winona. There it is now called the DM&E and here it is a state bicycle and snow mobile trail! Notice the Amish kids with their horse and buggy on their way home from school! Their farms are located all thru the countryside near here and their handmade furniture is beautiful! I admire them because they actually live according to and by that which they say that they believe. They do not say one thing and then do something else! But one thing is for sure, I know that I could NOT live and work as they do! They say that it is a good and honest life, but it would be a hard life also! Maybe it is not to them, but it sure would be for me! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:23 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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The light is bringing to fade, and soon there will be not much light to reflect off the snow! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:25 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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BNSF coal loads with its headlight reflects off the local engine, while the local conductor stands on the ground to make the required rollby inspection! You can see the eastbound ctc home signals for Bangor East, commonly called Rockland, Wisconsin |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:26 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:27 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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As the BNSF coal loads roars by, the Soo/ CP local conductor safely stands in the clear beside his engine on that which is now the siding, but was once the westbound track! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:27 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:28 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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Two engines pulling, one facing east and one west. There also should be one pushing! The second engine, the one facing west will be the lead unit when this train set returns from the power plant near Portage. It will be running back empty to load at the mines in Montana and Wyoming, that is "the Great Power River basin", and then returning east once again! It is starting to get dark and the trains are moving fast. |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:29 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:30 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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| Title: |
After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:31 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:32 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:34 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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As the radio controlled helper engine passes the local and the east siding switch, I wondered, would the dispatcher finally now be able to let the local go?! You can see the conductor still standing there, but I think that he already knew the answer that we will soon see. |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:35 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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When this train comes back empty, this helper engine will be the trailing unit in a consist of three. The two that are on the head end will then be on this end having run around the train, as it would then begin to prepare to leave the power plant. |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:40 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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You might have expected the gates to go up after the coal loads went by as that would have been the normal thing to happen. But they did NOT because the local was pulling, and the crossing gate signal logic "knew it". Safety First! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:45 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:46 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:47 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:51 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:52 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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I like this engine consist and it was the main reason that I was "out there"! Too bad the light was fading! But maybe it made for something different as to the effects. |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:53 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:58 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:04:59 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:05:00 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:05:04 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:05:05 AM |
| Location: |
Rockland, WI |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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The Soo/ CP local has left the siding and is heading east behind the BNSF coal loads. Maybe there is going to be other traffic?! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:05:08 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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Sure enough! After the ctc switch came back over to normal, the signal cleared for the first of that which I would later count as seven or eight westbounds! Fortunately for the dispatcher, only one of them was ahead of Amtk7, the westbound Empire Builder! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:05:11 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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After the traffic clears |
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Knowing that the signal would go dark when the local "cleared the block" two miles to the east, I figured that it was a good time to "pull the pin" and head home. It would NOT be a long walk, as we live right across the street, and we can see the railroad and this signal from our front door! |
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12/21/2009 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 3:05:13 AM |
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Rockland, WI |
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Steven Rush |
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