Here’s my last report as I am now, once again, a troll (Michigan reference). We saw the Stewart J Cort and Edwin H Gott from Brockway Mountain Drive yesterday.
This morning I saw Soo #730 “stuffed” in Gladstone. A CN GE/EMD combo were getting ready to take the daily eastbound to the Soo. There were 3 GTW 38’s working the yard, two in GTW blue and one in CN paint with sublettering.
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Midland Mike: Can you post your double-exposure and give mre an opportunity bto repairit?
It’s a slide I took on a Kodak instamatic (?) with 126 (?) film 50 years ago. Haven’t seen the slides in decades since the slide projector quit working.
If you find the slide, mail it to me via regular airmail, protected but in a regular business-letter envelope, for scan, repair, posting or just email to you, and return
Dave Klepper, c/o Yeshivat Beit Orot
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Jerusalem 97400, ISRAEL
Hey thanks for you postings on here. I might take a drive up to the UP on my next Wisconsin visit. I like tracing abandoned rails and have an interest in them.
I am thinking of a post retirement project here on them but not UP, those I think have been covered well here…you might consider that yourself. Maybe an audio book or published Amazon?
I am kind of addicted to my career in IT though and like creating stuff out of nothing. Love automating things…I guess the era of AI is my golden era. I might just change direction again and do books now, myself…leave IT to the younger folks. They keep complaining nobody will hire them…right after they get hired (Oy!).
I have a book ready for publication. Email me at ddaveklepper1@gmail.com, and I’ll attach it to return mail..
Thanks for the offer Dave. Just let me know when it is published and I’ll buy it.
I am already a co=author, with U.. of Gottegen. Sweden. Professor Mendel Kleiner and Albany, NY, Catholic Diocese Father Wendel Torres. of a 2010 book published by J. Ross,Pub, Fort Lauderdeale,FL, titled "W_____P SPACE ACOUSTICS (trying to avoid violating the Forum Guidelines).that may interest you. But be sure to request the Errata suploiment, because in addition to some minor errors. there is a major error in the prefered locations of the large musical instfrument in ine diagram, and a building where the chief musician remains my friend is mislabeled. Hopefully,there will be a second printing with everything corrected. The existing edition may be on Amazon if not directly from the publisher, and the Errata Sheet from the publisher or from me.
Some professional articles are in the website www.proaudioencyclopedia.com, including several railroad-relaterd articles, including the bio of late Trains author David Reed.
I might still email you Dave, thanks for the info. Give me a week or two, I can’t do a lot on breaks during the week plus I am working at times well into the evening. Need a weekend. I will identify myself so there is no doubt who you are talking to. 
Also beware of posting your email in a public forum you are going to get all sorts of junk mail from bots and other internet tools that crawl around looking for that.
I have been a Michigan Upper Peninsula railfan since I did my geology field course over 50 years ago in the Marquette Iron Range. One rail line that seems to be abandoned with rails in-place is the original Escanaba & Lake Superior route between Escanaba and Channing. It’s only active for a few miles out of Escanaba/Wells to a paper mill on the NW outskirts of town. The rest of the line west of there has been out of service for probably 40 years. They instead use trackage rights on the ex-C&NW line to Iron Mountain.
Sawyer and southeast area just had 12”-16” of snow into yesterday.
North of Calumet on the Keweenaw Peninsula is a snow measuring “thermometer”. They get huge amounts of snow there.
If you’re interested in historical railroading in the copper country of the UP, I’d recommend the Keweenaw Time Traveler.
It’s an interactive historical map that includes a lot of layers from historical maps such as Sanborn maps and old roadmaps that show railroads. It’s quite an interesting site and does a lot more than just that!