As the crew eats at a local beanery at Little Lake, Michigan, the locomotives for the Chicago and North Western ore train bound for the dock at Escanaba, patiently wait in the siding during the twilight of October 18, 1986. At this point, C&NW ore trains were still being powered by the big ex-Norfolk and Western Alco C-628s, but they were in the twilight of their careers too.
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