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The Whiting Paper Mill is closing in February 2011. This is currently the New Page Whiting Mill, formerly the Cora Enso / Consolidated Paper Whiting Division.
I took two hours one day to take pictures of the switch job that runs daily to the mill. Here comes the daily northbound job from Plover, crossing the Plover River south of Whiting about 11am on a Monday. |
| I looked in my picture files from 2009 and have this view of the trestle. |
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| Switching to the west leg of the wye. |
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. . . . . . . this is location C on the map below.
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a small map of this area
| Going north and west to the mill. |
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| Pulp wood in a variety of cars |
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This panorama of the train is misleading, the center of the picture doesn't curve toward the camera. I count 20 cars this day, and there are no blue coal hoppers this time. Scroll right and left. |
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I couldn't move as fast they can. I hiked back to Whiting Road, near the gate to the paper mill. The head-end boxcar has been already set in the distance on the P-line main, east of Strange Street. I would guess it isn't paper mill traffic, maybe it's something from the cannery and is just waiting to be added to the cut of cars at the end of the afternoon that will be bound for the Point yard. |
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| The engine is in the paper mill yard |
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Some switching is done before bringing in the new cars. The M-O-W crew is cleaning switches by using back-pack blowers. |
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Most of the preceding pictures were from a pole camera. It looks like this from the sidewalk. There's plenty of long shadows from trees and the moist air exhausted from the machine room. |
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. . . . . . . . . . to more Whiting Paper Mill Rails
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Link back to the index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures
( the index page is now on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011. And I will have to also keep the Next Generation index up-to-date also )
page wrote Dec 31, Jan 3; 2010
