Lake State Today

[patrick]

Well, I heard a horn and took off out the door. I found Lake State Railway pulling into the HESR yard with oh... 70 stone hoppers and one empty centerbeam car. The consist for tonights northbound freight is as follows.

LSRC 181
LSRC 798
LSRC 3515

Any Time you have the 798 in a consist, you have the makings for a great smoking show. Today was no exception. The flame from the stack was rollin black as coal. the 181 was putting a nice show on also. the train consist is below.

all cars are the same as the one before it unless labled different.

NDYX 20125
20116
20159
20142
20174
20199
20152
20186
20153
20141
20101
20145
20194
20106
20138
20197
20105
20132
20189
20133
20129
20191
20166
20162 Note that all of these cars are flyash for Lafarge Cement in alpena.

LSRC 5904
5920
5986
5924
5977
5117
5106
5933
5980
5107
5928
5975
5976
5915
5938
5950
5970
5992
5984
5940
5913
5969
5985
5979
5945
5906
5902
5105
5155
5953
5927
5963
5968
5997
5944
5934
5937
5967
5936
5908
5905
5131
5110
5921
5917
5930
5949
5900
5116
5941
5133 All above LSRC cars are 100 ton stone hoppers. Cars below are 70 ton hoppers.
5855
5806
5889
5847
5888
5864
5868
5867
5887
5871
5817
5814
5849
5858
5826
5875
5869
5856
5800
All in all they had 94 cars. On a side note, NDYX 20106 on the train and 20170 in the HESR yard appear to be wreck replacement cars. Since the are not Thrall cars with the normal job id on them. they are also a more pale white.