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Monday January 4, 2021. We had a frosty day on Sunday, and surprisingly the frost just kept growing into Monday. We usually don't have 2 or 3 frosty days in a row. Also, foggy, all day long. Some sunshine would help, but then the frost melts. I had a 'heads up' from the Waupaca depot webcam that train 491 was coming, and I watched it pull to a stop by Hoover Avenue. |
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The wire fence on the street overpass has been growing ice crystals
| An eastbound Q train (stacks) roars by. |
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| The conductor of 491 is inspecting the other side. It's 25 degrees F. |
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| And the DPU roars out from under the bridge. |
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| The Q has passed, and here's a view of a BC Rail on 491. It's still a foggy day, so this is not the day I had hoped for. |
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There's five locomotives on this relatively short train to Rapids. Maybe there is a need for power for Taylor Subdivision sand trains coming back? This train used to have a hundred cars when the big paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids was operating. But that idled in 2020. |
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A half dozen empty Marquis alcohol tanks roll by. That's a sure sign this is train 491. Eventually, these will end up at the Necedah alcohol plant. |
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| Some TILX hoppers, and I don't know if this is paper mill starch for Biron. |
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| I don't know these. |
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These red / white empty cars can loaded with alcohol at Necedah, too. Usually, the top cover of white cars gets a protective plastic bag on loaded cars, but this one has a bag, too. |
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