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They head east over the diamond in the snow.
There isn't a passing siding near here, but going around the wye gets the job done with only one extra switch to throw.

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and south on the P-line main

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I didn't hike the Green Circle Trail back into the woods again.
They will be coming around this curve. The sign is MP 2

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joining up at the south switch where they were a half-hour ago

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the cars waiting to be pushed into the mill

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Here's a view looking North at cars sitting in the same place a year earlier.
The MP 2 sign in on the right on the curve.
And note the green AC chip hoppers stored north of the diamond then. There is white snow on top of the chips.

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Repeating a small map of this area.

The cars in the picture above are sitting near the letter A on the map.


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cars moving west over Whiting Road and going into the mill

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engine pushing into view

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All are pushed to tracks to the north.
They will have to be sorted and spotted.
Pulpwood, woodchips, and coal stays on the north side.

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Boxcars and tank cars will go to the south / left. There are two tracks inside the paper mill beater room / machine room area.
They will be busy another 3 hours spotting cars.

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Other web pages about this area:
Whiting Wisconsin River Panoramic .
two mills .
Plover River Trestle .
Whiting and the Woods in 2004 .
As you view these 4 pages, you should use the BACK button to get back to this page. Using the return to index link on those pages probably won't get you back to a current index.
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Note, there is a trackmobile on the property. I would guess that moves coal hoppers inside the boiler house, and other chores.

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