Thanks for sharing your memories, Les. That's how I remember it too from the first time I rode it. It was on a drizzly July 4th, and the high that day was 49 degrees! The line passed right under the jack slip where the logs were pulled from the mill pond into the sawmill.... Do you know what happened to the two small GE diesels they had?

Chris

Chris: I was up to Laona many years ago (my
> grown kids were small then) and rode behind
> #4. At that time, the L&NO connection to
> the Soo Line at Laona Junction was still in
> place. The last run of the afternoon
> wouldn't just go to the "touristy
> lumber town" but would add any cars
> that needed to go to the Soo on to the train
> and ran the 8 miles to the junction The
> L&NO, like many lumber railroads, didn't
> have cuts or fills but just ran their line
> up and down the modest hills. Boy; talk
> about the little engine that could! The
> Prairie would chug up one hill, barely
> keeping the momentum going (I think I
> can,..I..think...I....can) then race down
> the downhill side (I...thought...I..could,
> I..thought.I could, I thought I could.) Then
> it was repeated for the next hill. We
> eventually dropped the boxcars on the
> interchange and with only the passenger cars
> and cabooses, the Vulcan had an easier time
> of it on the way back home. Sure wish Greg
> Scholl or someone else had been around to
> tape that operation. A great show; it
> certainly have made a great tape.

> Les Beckman (HVRM)


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> Thanks for sharing your memories, Les.
> That's how I remember it too from the first
> time I rode it. It was on a drizzly July
> 4th, and the high that day was 49 degrees!
> The line passed right under the jack slip
> where the logs were pulled from the mill
> pond into the sawmill.... Do you know what
> happened to the two small GE diesels they
> had?

Chris: I remember seeing them but do not know what happened to them. Hopefully, someone out there does know.

Les



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