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Closeup of the K5LA airhorn on the Santa Fe 800 |
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4/25/2009 Upload Date: 7/9/2009 11:05:58 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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ATSF 800(MoW Equipment) |
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Front view of Dan Hiller's ATSF 800 with its imposing K5LA |
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4/25/2009 Upload Date: 7/9/2009 11:06:44 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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ATSF 800(MoW Equipment) |
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The speeder we rode on, CN 190-01 |
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Unlike many of the other speeders which are in "mock-up" paint jobs, this is an original Canadian National speeder. Buster Keaton rode an earlier model CN in the short film "The Railrodder." |
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4/25/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 1:53:52 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Northbound towards Oregon |
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4/25/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 1:55:03 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Jim Wehrle |
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The track ahead |
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4/25/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:00:38 AM |
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Oregon, WI |
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Jim Wehrle |
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Can you spot the deer? |
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Looking towards Wyeville on the grass branch from Camp Douglas, used only for occasional car storage. |
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6/16/2009 Upload Date: 6/22/2009 12:35:23 AM |
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Wyeville, WI |
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Jim Wehrle |
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It's in there somewhere |
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One rail of the former C&NW line through Plymouth is visible in the left foreground. The other rail is buried in the grass somewhere to the right. The north-south ex-MILW line (currently used by WSOR, in the upper right) and the east-west ex-C&NW run parallel to each other for a few blocks either side of the diamond in downtown Plymouth. WSOR has recently purchased the ex-C&NW from here eastward for future access to Sheboygan. |
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6/17/2009 Upload Date: 6/22/2009 1:19:47 AM |
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Plymouth, WI |
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Looking north from County Highway T |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:40:20 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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You'll have to take my word for it, there are tracks in there |
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Looking south from County Highway T (Rutland Avenue). |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:41:40 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Whistle post |
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South of former Rutland Ave. crossing. |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:42:31 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Overgrown rail |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:51:39 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Blackberry express |
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Blackberry bush growing between the rails south of Rutland Avenue. |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:53:10 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Buzz Buzz |
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Look closely...there's a wasp nest inside the empty bolt hole for the joint bar. |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:56:59 AM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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See, it's really not so bad... |
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In some places on this line (where the growth is thin enough that you can see them) the ties and ballast appear to be in better shape than some active lines. |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:27:31 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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A little mowing will take care of that |
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North of Rutland Street, looking north. |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:28:21 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Looking west at the Holt Road crossing |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:33:10 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Lone guardian |
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The crossbuck sign on the other side of the Holt Road crossing is missing. |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:54:01 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Title: |
Looking north from Holt Road |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 2:58:24 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Looking south from Holt Road |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 3:05:02 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Looking north through Holt Rd. crossing |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 3:08:39 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Low angle looking north through the Holt Rd. crossing |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 3:12:43 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Another shot looking south from Holt Road |
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7/9/2009 Upload Date: 7/11/2009 3:16:46 PM |
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Brooklyn, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Looking south from the County Highway Y crossing |
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Former Milwaukee Road Sauk City branch, out of service on this end since 1998 due to problems with the bridge. |
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8/22/2009 Upload Date: 8/22/2009 10:27:42 PM |
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Sauk City, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Looking north from County Highway Y |
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Some of the heaviest overgrowth of a line that I have seen. |
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8/22/2009 Upload Date: 8/22/2009 10:33:13 PM |
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Sauk City, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Low angle looking north along the rusty rails |
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8/22/2009 Upload Date: 8/22/2009 10:43:45 PM |
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Sauk City, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Rail in the foliage |
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This is at the Springdale Road crossing on the abandoned ex-Milwaukee Road line to Waukesha (original Milwaukee & Mississippi route) through Brookfield. |
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8/6/2010 Upload Date: 8/25/2012 10:12:51 PM |
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Brookfield, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Hobo jungle |
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This is what the ex-Milwaukee Road Waukesha line through Brookfield looks like in the summer, looking east from the former Springdale Road crossing. The rails are still there, buried under the dense shrubbery, as shown in the previous picture. |
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8/6/2010 Upload Date: 8/25/2012 10:15:29 PM |
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Brookfield, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Disused ex-C&NW railroad crossing on Erie Street |
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In the Third Ward. Summerfest grounds to the left, swing bridge over the Milwaukee River just out of the picture to the right. When the Chicago & Northwestern abandoned and removed their passenger mainline through downtown Milwaukee, 1-2 miles of track were kept at both ends for local freight service to industries. That industrial traffic has since dried up, and the remaining portions of the line have gone out of service, albeit still in place for now. The northern end runs from Wiscona to Hampton Avenue, with photos from February 2009 elsewhere in this album. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/25/2012 10:17:09 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Looking south across Erie St. at the old CNW Milwaukee River swing bridge |
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The bridge is permanently open to river traffic. The Water St. crossing on the other side has been removed, and within two years (August 2012) these rails would be removed as well. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 4:50:35 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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What once was |
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The former Chicago & Northwestern passenger mainline through downtown Milwaukee is now a disused spur that dead-ends in a gravel parking lot. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 4:52:56 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Crossing obliteration |
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The Water Street crossing on what once was the Chicago and Northwestern's passenger mainline through downtown Milwaukee. The crossing has recently been removed, and the road repaved. The tracks in the background (protected by crossbucks) are industrial spurs that still get occasional use by UP's "Marsh Job" local. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 5:29:43 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Crossing obliteration 2 |
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Looking toward the Milwaukee River swing bridge at where the rails used to cross the street. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 5:33:11 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Crossing obliteration 3 |
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The former crossing viewed from the south side looking north. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 5:34:48 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Looking north at the former CNW Milwaukee River swing bridge |
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Permanently open to river traffic now. The rails leading to the bridge dead end in the gravel pile before the crossing, and are hidden in the grass the rest of the way. At one time, all C&NW passenger trains between Chicago and points such as Fond du Lac and Green Bay passed through here. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 5:56:04 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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End of the line |
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Looking south at the removed Water Street crossing. The former main line has been stubbed off just beyond the switch. The spurs at left still see occasional use from the UP "Marsh Job" local. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 5:59:16 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Silent survivors |
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Although the rails of the Water Street crossing on the former C&NW mainline have been removed, the crossing signals were not. They will never flash and ding for another train, though (unless removed and reinstalled at an active crossing). These venerable Safetran signals are fairly typical "second generation" crossing signals on the C&NW, and would have been installed to replace the original wigwags or Griswold rotating stop signs probably around the late 1970s to early '80s. |
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8/25/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 6:07:40 PM |
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Milwaukee, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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Old C&NW rail poking out of the trees near the former Clifford St. crossing |
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10/14/2010 Upload Date: 5/27/2011 1:49:47 AM |
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Plymouth, WI |
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Yes, there is a rail in here somewhere |
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It's toward the left. Believe it or not, the Wisconsin and Southern railroad is actually beginning work on resurrecting this line from Plymouth to Sheboygan. |
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10/14/2010 Upload Date: 5/27/2011 1:54:03 AM |
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Plymouth, WI |
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Disconnected rails looking north from Horicon Street (Highway 28) |
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The ex-Milwaukee Road line between Iron Ridge and Fond du Lac was abandoned from the north side of Mayville to Fond du Lac in the early 1980s. Sometime in 2010, WSOR discontinued service to the United Co-Op on the north side of town, and removed the crossing at Highway 28. Now the last mile or so of track is cut off and inaccessible to rail traffic. |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 6:27:57 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Low angle looking north along these out-of-service ex-Milwaukee Road rails |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 6:55:02 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking south at the new end of the line |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 7:01:11 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking south through the removed Highway 28 crossing |
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The cantilever arms for the overhead crossing lights have been turned 90 degrees so the lights are no longer over the road. |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 7:03:19 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Bagged lights |
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This used to be a fairly common way to mark a crossing closed or out of service without dismantling the signals. |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 7:05:40 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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The new end of the line with red board and dirt mound |
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Just south of Highway 28. |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 7:07:36 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking north from the new end of the line toward the removed Highway 28 crossing |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 7:10:01 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Out-of-service ex-Milwaukee Road railroad crossing on Bridge Street |
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The crossing and signals were untouched at this point, but inaccessible to train traffic due to the removal of the Highway 28 crossing about 0.12 mile to the south. |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 7:11:39 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking south across Bridge Street toward the removed Highway 28 crossing |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 11:19:46 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking south toward Highway 28 where the track is severed |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 11:22:04 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking north across Bridge Street toward Dayton & Walnut Streets |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 11:24:11 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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Looking north along the disused track toward Dayton & Walnut Streets |
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11/13/2010 Upload Date: 8/26/2012 11:27:14 PM |
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Mayville, WI |
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