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» West end Soo Yard
» Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA (more..)
» March 22, 1977 |
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Photographer |
» LS&I 2302 (more..)
» Soo X-LS&I 2302 West (more..) |
» Chuck Schwesinger (more..)
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| In the winter of 1976-1977 a severe amount of early ice and heavy business conspired to leave Algoma Steel nearly pellet less by mid March. The solution was to move Tilden pellets all-rail for about a 3 week period in March. The routing was LS&I Tilden to Marquette, then Soo's Ex DSS&A line Marquette to Trout Lake and finally original Soo Line from Trout Lake to Soo Yard. Power was all LS&I, as Soo was short units. Mostly GE's were used although a couple RSD15's did make the trip. Cars were Soo hoppers scrounged up from where ever along with Soo cabooses. A real unique operation that mainly ran at night. At 5:42PM LS&I 2302,2500 are waiting customs clearance at Soo Yard with 50 empties. |
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