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Go to School with a Railroad Locomotive

Go to School with a Railroad Locomotive

I have some old pictures to catch up with.
Some all the way from last October 2023, and all the way through last week of August 2024.
Plover, Wisconsin, usually has one locomotive,
but when the railroad holds a school for new employees, a second locomotive comes to town.

The trees are green, and this is last year when the Plover job goes past the Stevens Point depot
after serving the paper mill that is a half mile west of here.

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Plover

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Another day and another month, a mile north of Plover

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And they got a colorful one for school.

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The locomotive was turned on the Plover wye, how convenient for photographers.

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Passing the concrete plant at Patch Street, and the north end of the P-Line.

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Same loco, different day, facing a different direction.

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I am guessing this is a school locomotive, I see a full house of men in yellow safety vests inside.

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And sometimes both locos are together by the Plover yard office.
(many times, the school locomotive is parked further back in the yard)

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And being a school locomotive, it seems to get wyed often.

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Water Street, with the Plover job pulling cars from Vetter switch to the Point yard, August 2024

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pulling in to the Point yard

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These photos are not all in chronological order, this would be a school engine coming around the wye, last year

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The Plover job crossing Post Road / Business highway 51 on its way back to Plover,
probably last winter before the snow.
It is usually a light loco going south; they set all their work pulled from the paper mill in Point yard.

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We didn't get much snow last winter, this seems to be my only snow picture

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It's Spring, and here's another Bessemer, one digit lower than the other one.
I think this ended up working iron ore in Minnesota after this.

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This page was wrote in August 2024.