When Nancy Haun is out and about in the Baraga/L’Anse area, she always finds something interesting to share with us. She explains the first shot of the Baraga Marina Gazebo, saying how she was standing on the old Nestor’s Mill property at the end of M-38 in Baraga, looking westerly toward the head of the bay and the Bishop Baraga Shrine. While she was exploring there, a Snowy Owl flew up from a low spot right in front of her and then landed on the roof of the Gazebo. She took the photo from a long ways away and wasn’t sure about what looked like another owl on the roof. Getting closer she could see it was a “decoy” owl, so the Snowy Owl was with his fake friend up there and Nancy thought... Will the real Owl please flap your wings!

Another treat from Nancy...a video of the trains performing a shove move across US41 and the Falls River, into the Koppers plant in L’Anse. I had to look “shove move” up to be sure what it means: “A railroad shove move is the process of pushing a train from the rear or a cut of cars.” After watching the video this makes perfect sense.

Well I learned one thing today. What the shove
move means.
Does anybody know what a train with engine in
front and back is called? Have them all the time
going by the house with empty and loaded coal
cars. Some times the powder trains are shove move
but they are only 3-4 cars long. But they do have
to come back down with the empties eventually.
And ours squeal just as much as yours in Baraga
when going around a curve.

Never a good sign when the empties go up early in
the morning since that means that they just might
come back down at 4 am. Just love that alarm
clock. It is all most as bad as the snow plow on
bare pavement.

Well I learned one thing today. What the shove
move means.
Does anybody know what a train with engine in
front and back is called? Have them all the time
going by the house with empty and loaded coal
cars.

Some times the powder trains (anfo for the strip
mines) are shove move
but they are only 3-4 cars long. But they do have
to come back down with the empties eventually.
And ours squeal just as much as yours in Baraga
when going around a curve.

Never a good sign when the empties go up early in
the morning since that means that they just might
come back down at 4 am. Just love that alarm
clock. It is all most as bad as the snow plow on
bare pavement.

I love these. Very cool. It's
always fun to see a snowy owl.
They're so pretty.

Wvyooper, I have heard those trains are referred to
as "pull & push", We often see those here sometimes
with an additional engine in the middle for
distribution power.

I remember going out to that Gazebo and taking
pics, after that huge storm that filled the road
between Baraga and L'Anse and threw all the logs up
in L'Anse park. Totally different look then!

Watching President Carter's funeral. Just wow. We
sure don't have many folks made like him anymore.
God Bless you Sir.

These pix are a hoot! I wonder if
they’re having an affair or maybe
their BFF’s just keeping it platonic.
At first I thought Nancy ran this
video in reverse. This is the first
time I’ve seen a train move cars
that way.
“You can't jump a jet plane like
you can a freight train.
So, I'd best be on my way in the
early morning rain.”
(Gordon Lightfoot)

Nice Pics. The train couplers sure could use some WD
40 Big time. lol