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FRAC SAND FRAC SAND
MINING & TRAINS
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y. The Wisconsin Northern s rves fi ve frac sand mines and plants along their 37 .5 miles of track. Each day the WNR works the se plants and delivers their long trains of sa nd hoppers to the Norma Ya
Va erv route to theAltoona Ya
Silica Sands at New Auburn, WI fo their open pit sandmine, washing pl and processing plant and rail car loader
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Superior Silica Sandsi ca Sands
Wisconsin Northern Union Pacific A look at
at the busy frac sand railroads and sa nd mining operations in Wisconsin’s Chippe wa Valley.
Yard in Chippewa Fal ls
for interchange with the Union Pacific. The UP then transport
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As detailed in the text, waiting for this train, seen here at Greenland on Colorado’s Joint Line, was an all day affair that yielded only this one photo. GREG MONROE
Then in my slide shows she likes to say “Here comes the train... Here comes the train, again! Here is the same train, again!” But she is a bird watcher, and I get even when she shows her bird slides by saying, “Oh! Here is a bird... Here is the bird, again... Is that the same bird, yet again?!’”
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Misadventures of the Modern Railfan
Sometimes, waiting for a train can lead to interesting “non-railfanning” situations. Once on the Joint Line while waiting for darkness so I could take some night time ex- posures of helpers waiting to return to Den- ver after cutting off their train, I was ques-
tioned first by a rancher then a sheriff’s deputy on suspicion of being a horse rustler because I was parked next to his fenced property. I was later visited by a town cop because of a local resident’s suspicion that I was waiting by the tracks to do a drug deal. (Moi?) After all, would any sane person wait for several hours to photograph trains — at night, no less? In a R&R issue a couple of years ago
(MARKERS, November 2012), editor Steve Barry told of how he lost a digital card at a night shoot, and had to send someone to the scene of the loss (it happened in Indiana, and the lost card wasn’t noticed until he got
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