I stopped on the evening of the 20th and there was no power on the diaper east of the depot.
Considerably east of that were 5 tank cars and a WC boxcar. The west tank car was DOWX although I didn’t get close enough to read the number.
There were fresh flange marks in the Charles St crossing and the rails showed recent use also. There were cars several hundred feet south of Prison Rd with shiny wheels on the north car which was WC 238075. I didn’t walk in past the No Trespassing signs to get it. There was a compromise joint south of the road were it went from 80# to 100# rail for the crossing. Also painted on the side of the rail was CN I IND which must be the division between CN and whomever owns the rest of the track.
In the sw corner of Victory and Charles are still the five Besse pulp cars. There were at least nine loaded ones there in 3/2019.
I returned the following evening and found GTW 4919 GP38-2 in quite fresh paint idling on the diaper and seven cars east of it. TBOX 639351 was the west car and had the EOT on it’s west end. East of it were BCOL 730386, BCOL 730122, WRWK 120330, CIV 626138, ATW 300975 all loaded with LP Smart Side, plus UTLX 683686 placarded 3082 (environmentally hazardous substances, liquid) OR (other regulated substances, liquid) plus further east, in the same spot as yesterday, the same six cars. It had rained overnight however the rails were not rusty so I’ll assume the seven cars came down off the hill.
I checked several switch locks both here and in Munising and they were all the Adlake style ones stamped for the WC.
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