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WAMX 4178 just outside the roundhouse |
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The former WSOR 4009. The area behind the cab where the dedication to Lucy Stone Gardner was blotted out is visible. Looks like theres also some yellow caution tape on the steps on both ends. |
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10/19/2017 Upload Date: 10/20/2017 8:05:55 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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More power sits in the yard on another bright February day |
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This includes the SD45 carbody, 4223. I got a tip that it was leading a train from Janesville to Madison the previous afternoon, and spent an hour waiting trackside in the cold wind only to find out that they hadn't left Janesville yet. It arrived in Madison under cover of darkness. |
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2/26/2018 Upload Date: 3/1/2018 1:45:36 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4223(SD40M-2) WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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WAMX 3928 sits in the yard while L468 with 4178 assembles their train |
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12/9/2020 Upload Date: 12/10/2020 9:53:44 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) WAMX 3928(GP39-2) |
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Spied a camera shy WAMX 4223 |
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12/9/2020 Upload Date: 12/10/2020 10:57:28 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4223(SD40M-2) WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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L468 gets underway |
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12/9/2020 Upload Date: 12/10/2020 11:01:38 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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WAMX 4178 leads L468 out of the yard and across Johnson Street |
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This is the former WSOR 4009, an ex-Milwaukee Road unit. It once had a dedication to Lucy Stone Gardner, late wife of former WSOR owner/CEO Bill Gardner, on each side of the long hood immediately behind the cab. It was blotted out soon after he sold the railroad to Watco in 2012. Further pictures of this train are in the album "WSOR Waterloo Subdivision." |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2020 Upload Date: 12/10/2020 11:02:43 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Switching Alter Recycling on Sycamore Avenue |
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The typical first stop for L468. They've just swapped a cut of empties for loads that they are about to shove back toward the camera. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2020 Upload Date: 12/10/2020 11:04:25 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Sunset Glow |
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Instead of adding it to the train which is sitting on the main at left, they shoved this cut of loads into another siding. Then the power pulled through the crossover and coupled back up. I thought (hoped) they were going to run east toward Sun Prairie, but instead they resumed switching, disappearing into the sidings again. |
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12/9/2020 Upload Date: 12/10/2020 11:04:56 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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| Locomotives: |
WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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89 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
WAMX 4178/4187 |
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The usual gaggle of red and gray geese. |
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4/22/2021 Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:40:47 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) WAMX 4187(SD40-2) |
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180 Comments: 0 |
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Found one of the old guard |
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This is the former WSOR 4009, an ex-Milwaukee Road unit on its home turf. It came up after apparently being wyed, and sat here for a little while before the crew pulled over the crossing and backed it onto the fuel ramp. |
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6/30/2021 Upload Date: 7/5/2021 4:49:35 PM |
| Location: |
Janesville, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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| Locomotives: |
WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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111 Comments: 0 |
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WAMX 4178 past the depot with an eastbound grain+sand train |
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1/14/2022 Upload Date: 1/20/2022 8:56:18 AM |
| Location: |
Middleton, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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| Locomotives: |
WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
WAMX 4178 low, wide and right at home |
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This ex-Milwaukee Road SD40-2 is still working ex-Milwaukee Road rails. The other two units in this consist are HLCX leasers. |
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1/14/2022 Upload Date: 1/20/2022 8:57:01 AM |
| Location: |
Middleton, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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Oil loads, Janesville to Madison on the ex-C&NW? |
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Not exactly (a four-day late April fool!)...L469 is clearing out 126 tankers that were stored on the line near Brooklyn. Unlike further north (RR west) where train movements are somewhat more regular to serve the Lycon ready-mix plant, the active crossing protection at Perry Parkway was not restored when the line was re-opened. The one signal still standing was removed, and a pair of crossbucks with yield signs added. |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:31:01 PM |
| Location: |
Oregon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Rare Mileage |
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L469 crosses a small bridge over a depression/drainage canal. Irregular storage moves like this are the only train traffic here; the local sometimes brings their cars south (RR east) of Netherwood Road while switching the Lycon plant but seldom if ever makes it this far. |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:34:42 PM |
| Location: |
Oregon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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About to duck under County M, westbound out of town |
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Judging by the color of the rails in front of the train, there haven't been many (if any) runs to Lycon yet this year. The ready-mix plant is in the distance near top right; a segment of this ex-C&NW trackage was re-opened in fall 2014 after 18 years out of service so that WSOR could deliver aggregate loads for Lycon out of their yard in Madison. South (RR east) of the plant, cars are stored up to WSOR's end-of-track at Brooklyn. This L469 job is pulling 126 tanks. |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:35:49 PM |
| Location: |
Oregon, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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Crossing the small bridge along Syene Road |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:37:43 PM |
| Location: |
Fitchburg, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Approaching Lacy Road |
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After some additional ballasting and rehab work following the initial re-opening in late 2014, by 2016 I observed several of the aggregate trains doing 25 MPH on the old C&NW jointed rail. Not this time, however. Was hoping to catch the units working a little harder with the >120 MTs. At least it allowed for some additional shots. |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:38:32 PM |
| Location: |
Fitchburg, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Crossing Lacy Road |
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When the line was out of service from 1996-2014, the ungated C&NW-era crossing signals still stood here, gradually falling apart. The signal that was once where the one in this picture stands was knocked over by a vehicle sometime prior to 2006, and never replaced until the line was rehabbed at which time the other signal was removed and both replaced with temporary crossbucks. These modern gated signals were installed a year or two later. The "EXEMPT" signage remains due to the crossing's proximity to the intersection with Syene Road, a 4-way stop. |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:39:11 PM |
| Location: |
Fitchburg, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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Easing through the Olin switch |
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The track going off to the right was once the C&NW Ridge Runner line, which ran out to Lancaster with several additional spurs extending throughout far southwest Wisconsin. By the mid-'80s all was abandoned except for a stub serving Central Soya in Fitchburg. When they closed that location c. 2004-05, the line was cut back still further. Now only two customers, Vita Plus and Capital Newspapers, are served in the Fish Hatchery Road vicinity. Nothing used the line the train is on from the last UP train to Janesville in October 1996, until the Lycon plant opened in Oregon in September 2014. |
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4/5/2022 Upload Date: 4/9/2022 11:39:52 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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WAMX 4178 squeals around the Johnson St. curve leaving the yard with L468 |
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6/1/2022 Upload Date: 6/1/2022 10:57:25 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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| Locomotives: |
WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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WAMX 4178 with a Wednesday Waterloo Sub run |
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I actually came out looking for the run to Cottage Grove which I'd observed on Wednesday afternoons earlier in the year. I've come to expect the Waterloo line run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The only constant is change with WSOR operating patterns. |
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6/1/2022 Upload Date: 6/1/2022 10:58:58 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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