Rolling east at a steady 30mph near Hannahville the DMIR 315,170,209,312 and 90 loads of Minorca ore are fighting through a fairly heavy Upper Michigan snow squall. Most years these winter only Minorca-Escanaba trains tended to use WC power for the most part, but during the winter of 96 the WC was extremely power short and instead of the usual SD45/F45 sets with the rare DMIR unit mixed in solid sets on DMIR's could be found.
Coal and steel don't go bad. This album features long, slow, heavy freight trains; drag freights, slop freights, dead freights, etc. Trains with lots of power, and lots of different cargo slogging along behind.
