Escanaba and Lake Superior in the North Woods

The daily Crivitz to Green Bay ELS train makes its way south thru Coleman Wisconsin on this -19*F Wisconsin winter like day




Sitting out in Howard out by Velp Ave, the ELS has to wait for a cleaning in the yard before it can come in....By the looks of things, this is where the crew will have to tie up for the day and get a cab to the hotel

 
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A little flash back in history when the Milwaukee Road ran this line....


Here we catch train #469 heading back to Marinette after making a run here to Crivitz

 
Used your time-traveling CN trucks to snag that shot, didja?

Truthfully, I'm a bit surprised to see that the E&LS still actually has dedicated railfans, but your shotz are looking really good.

I love the upper midwest stuff, keep up the good work!
 
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Back in the day the ELS had two units leased from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum (Erie Mining F9 4211 and Soo GP30 700). Today we catch them coming thru Iron Mountain MI as they head south down the original E&LS line towards Pembine and then onto Crivitz to drop off storage cars on the M and M line.....A good business for this Michigan shortline.





A real clip and a pic of this operation happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNd2qQHoGcE#t=131

 
On a cold and snowy January morning up here in Crivitz we catch the Escanaba and Lake Superior as it is about to make its daily run to Green Bay....Todays SB for was 56 & 14 where the five ELS 50000 series box cars bringing up the rear. They were empty and had a big pile of snow on the roof. Looks like maybe they had been stored and are getting scrapped? Or maybe they were leased are going back to the owner? 56 loads were 44 pulpwood and 12 OSB. Empties were a tank from LP, the 5 ELS boxes and 8 COER centerbeams out of storage.

 
Blutorse4792 said:
Truthfully, I'm a bit surprised to see that the E&LS still actually has dedicated railfans, but your shotz are looking really good.
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ELS is killer. Quite rewarding when you can find them. (I've yet to be skunked by them) I'll take one train a day with old EMDs over 60 trains with GEs!
 
007007 said:
ELS is killer. Quite rewarding when you can find them.
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They are a fascinating RR to capture....Like he says....Its like a needle in a hay stack trying to find these guys at times.....There is a good amount of stuff laying all over the system including the ex-WSOR F unit number 600 that is stored up in Channing that I just found out the other day
 
Snow is falling as the ELS 500 waits here at Marinette for a crew to come on board to take it across town to work the local industries

 
Before going north to work the sidings that has storage cars on them, the conductor quick hops off and runs into the MoW shed to look for some flares to heat up frozen locks and other objects that has been frozen from this cold weather...This train will work as far as Iron Mountain and tie up there for the day and come back down tomorrow



 
Meanwhile on the south end of things we see the daily Crivitz to Green Bay turn sitting near Velp Ave awaiting to get into the yard




 
A while back was up in Coleman one summer and was headed for Crivitz to catch some ELS, but over heard on the scanner of a bad accident on the north side of town, while on the way to the scene, the EAGLE III helicopter flew over, now one knows that it is very serious when that gets called in....So took a spin up that way to check it out and this is what one seen



 
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