Well today I was called for a local to run down to Home Depot and Merrill Iron and Steel, I really didn’t want to have to venture out into this crap…But oh well…So I grabbed my gear and headed out the door to the Wausau yard office…On the way down there, I was thinking what kind of power I will have to use today, I remember we had the SOO GP30 sitting around down there and I was so hoping NOT to have that one, the heater in that thing sucks and ya have to kick it here and there just to keep it going…When we got down there we seen a WC GP40 and that was tacked onto some cars that looked as though it will be going to Home Depot, right then and there I felt the comfort of a nice days of work…We went into the office to grab our switch list and then headed for our already running, heated up, nice ride today…
We got on our way and headed to Rothschild and ducked under HWY 29 and kept on going to head to Weston
Slowing up to make a stop at the Home Depot, we pass Weston 3 power plant
With our cut of cars left on the mainline, we then run light down the siding to grab the empties
With the empties in tow, we pull back to the mainline to grab our loads
We grab our loads and the conductor hops on the back and rides back to the spot where we will spot these loads, we slow for the RR crossing so he can hop off and flag the crossing
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