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WAMX 4219 and L863 continue across Forster Drive |
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5/18/2018 Upload Date: 5/21/2018 5:21:07 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) |
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L863 shoves their train into the yard |
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5/18/2018 Upload Date: 5/21/2018 5:25:07 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) |
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Lake Wisconsin bridge sequence 4 of 5 |
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5/18/2018 Upload Date: 5/21/2018 5:12:38 PM |
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Merrimac, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) |
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348 Comments: 0 |
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T007 goes to work with WAMX 4171 |
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The SD45 carbody unit 4223 is also coupled to it, both long-hood-forward. 6334 will later become power for L468. |
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5/23/2018 Upload Date: 5/23/2018 11:17:41 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4171(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2) HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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High sun conductor's side shot of WAMX 4223 |
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T007 power rolls clear of the switch on the main so they can start switching their train. |
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5/23/2018 Upload Date: 5/23/2018 11:18:47 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4223(SD40M-2) |
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HLCX 6334 is power for L468 as they switch their train on the north end of the yard |
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They'll eventually shove their train to Cottage Grove. |
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5/23/2018 Upload Date: 5/23/2018 11:20:07 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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In a few minutes, HLCX 6334 will start shoving L468 to Cottage Grove |
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5/23/2018 Upload Date: 5/23/2018 11:38:34 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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148 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
HLCX 6334 switching |
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5/23/2018 Upload Date: 5/24/2018 12:14:04 AM |
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Cottage Grove, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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112 Comments: 1 |
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HLCX 6334 hides in the shadows as L468 switches Hydrite on a beautiful spring evening |
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5/23/2018 Upload Date: 5/28/2018 11:55:04 AM |
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Cottage Grove, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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158 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
WAMX 3947 crosses 2nd St. with a hefty L464 |
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6/7/2018 Upload Date: 6/9/2018 5:55:01 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 3947(GP39-2) |
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107 Comments: 1 |
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WAMX 3947 ambles through the East Side neighborhoods on a pleasant late spring evening |
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They will hang a left at Junction A, and the chase continues in the album "WSOR Waterloo Subdivision." |
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6/7/2018 Upload Date: 6/9/2018 6:14:11 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 3947(GP39-2) |
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130 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
WAMX 4181 pulls a cut south in the yard |
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This unit was formerly WSOR 4012, and never made it out of BN Cascade Green until the late summer or early fall of 2017, when Watco painted it into their new version of the red and gray scheme. |
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7/11/2018 Upload Date: 7/21/2018 6:58:50 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4181(SD40-2) |
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274 Comments: 1 |
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WAMX 4181 pauses before shoving back |
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This train faked me out. I thought they were departing the yard so I started to drive down the Isthmus to set up for a runby, but they stopped and reversed after pulling about 20-25 cars over the Johnson St. crossing. After waiting for the traffic backup to clear, I pulled into the parking lot across Fordem. Fortunately they stopped again to line another switch. Unless you brought a stepladder, you have to hold the camera at arm's length and shoot blind thanks to the stupidly high fence they put up on the west side of the yard. This was the only snap that got the whole locomotive in it. Thank goodness for digital. |
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7/11/2018 Upload Date: 7/21/2018 6:59:22 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4181(SD40-2) |
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362 Comments: 1 |
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WAMX 3947 about to depart Johnson St. yard |
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The train has stopped, and two crew members have walked out into the street to direct traffic. The train will also use its horn at the normally "quiet" crossing, as the signals and gates aren't functioning for some reason. |
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7/17/2018 Upload Date: 7/21/2018 7:14:07 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 3947(GP39-2) |
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140 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Some WAMX red geese parked in the yard |
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11/9/2018 Upload Date: 11/10/2018 2:14:39 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) WAMX 4175(SD40-2) |
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397 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
L469 with a surprising pair of SD40-2s switches sand hoppers in the yard |
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Never seen this job with two SDs before. It usually has just one unit, occasionally two Geeps. |
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3/27/2019 Upload Date: 3/28/2019 2:58:37 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4172(SD40-2) |
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207 Comments: 0 |
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WAMX 4172 and 4170 shove back into the yard after making a switching move |
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3/27/2019 Upload Date: 3/28/2019 3:01:43 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4172(SD40-2) |
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195 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
L469 finishes up for the day and prepares to park their power |
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3/27/2019 Upload Date: 3/28/2019 3:06:28 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4172(SD40-2) |
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167 Comments: 0 |
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After holding at Ingersoll St. for a work crew in the yard to clear up, L469 rolls through downtown |
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Heading back to the yard, crossing the bike/pedestrian/skateboard path in McPike Park. |
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4/3/2019 Upload Date: 4/4/2019 7:23:48 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 3947(GP39-2) |
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156 Comments: 1 |
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The conductor lines a yard switch for L469's motor WAMX 3947 |
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4/3/2019 Upload Date: 4/4/2019 7:24:23 PM |
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Madison, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 3947(GP39-2) |
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WAMX 4186 stands ready to depart the yard with Good Friday's L465 |
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As always, it's a solo SD40-2 long hood forward. This is the former WSOR 4052, and considerably cleaner than the last few units I've caught. |
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4/19/2019 Upload Date: 4/22/2019 9:11:19 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4186(SD40-2) |
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187 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
WAMX 4186 muscles L465's train into motion |
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4/19/2019 Upload Date: 4/22/2019 9:21:27 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4186(SD40-2) |
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175 Comments: 1 |
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L465 crosses the under-construction E. Johnson St. as it leaves the yard |
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All traffic has been routed to the northbound half of the four-lane boulevard, and the shoulder gate for the southbound side has been disabled (although the lights and bell still work). |
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4/19/2019 Upload Date: 4/22/2019 9:22:12 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4186(SD40-2) |
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212 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
L867 winds through |
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I heard these guys on the scanner while I was waiting on the 1st-813 at Wisconsin Dells, saying they were going to head from Baraboo to Reedsburg. They made better time than I was expecting, and after coming down US-12 and then west on 136 I had to come all the way here to get ahead of them. |
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4/28/2021 Upload Date: 5/8/2021 12:03:10 AM |
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Rock Springs, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4180(SD40-2) |
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175 Comments: 0 |
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L867 power heads to the yard to collect the return train |
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Unfortunately, due to work I couldn't catch it on the eastbound run with 4170 leading into the sun. |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:36:59 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4170(SD40-2) |
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258 Comments: 0 |
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HLCX 6334 will lead the westbound back to Rock Springs |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:37:47 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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Title: |
Plane, Train (No Automobile) |
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A United plane heading into Dane County Regional Airport passes overhead as the westbound L867 approaches the end of Madison yard limits. |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:38:10 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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102 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Over the Hills and Through the Woods |
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The WSOR's Reedsburg Subdivision, once the C&NW's Twin Cities mainline, skirts the east shore of Lake Mendota and the bucolic, upscale village of Maple Bluff. |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:38:29 PM |
Location: |
Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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99 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Crossing Forster Drive |
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Although the original 8" Griswold lamps were replaced with the ubiquitous oversized L.E.D.s within the last few years, this crossing still retains its wide-pedestal gate mechanisms which were a common installation on both the C&NW and Milwaukee Road. Similar sets on E. Johnson Street, Baldwin Street, and Sherman Avenue have been replaced over the course of the last decade. |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:38:46 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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Title: |
Kopp Road cloud-boink |
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This crossing, once solidly in the rural area between Waunakee and Dane, is being overtaken by suburban sprawl. |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:40:24 PM |
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Waunakee, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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Title: |
Cresting the hill |
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Despite the uphill gradient here and a fairly healthy train for the line in 2021, the power doesn't work too hard at 10 MPH. 15 years ago, most of this line east of Rock Springs was still good for 25. |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:40:50 PM |
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Dane, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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112 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
HLCX 6334 West, WSOR L867 |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:41:47 PM |
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Dane, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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HLCX 6334(SD40-2) |
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139 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
WSOR 17631 still displaying a MoPac herald |
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9/9/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:42:31 PM |
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Dane, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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L464 prepares to leave the yard with WAMX 4219 LHF |
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Naturally, I can't buy a catch of this unit leading in the proper orientation ever since it was painted. |
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9/30/2021 Upload Date: 9/30/2021 6:14:39 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) |
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108 Comments: 0 |
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WAMX 4172 stands ready to take the five-car local back to Madison after switching the industries |
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Chanced upon this train on its way out a couple hours earlier while running errands, after I was done figured they might still be here. Sure enough. Not sure why they sit here for up to an hour or more after the train is assembled before heading back. |
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3/16/2022 Upload Date: 3/17/2022 2:27:52 PM |
Location: |
Cottage Grove, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4172(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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Oregon, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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259 Comments: 0 |
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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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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 |
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Fitchburg, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Crossing Lacy Road |
Description: |
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 |
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Fitchburg, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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Title: |
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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193 Comments: 0 |
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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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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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162 Comments: 0 |
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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 |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4178(SD40-2) |
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270 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Just another station |
Description: |
Dane's main attraction for railfans was the wigwag signals at the other crossing in town, which were replaced a couple of years ago. These cantilever signals at SR 113 also date from (much later, ~1980s) in the CNW era. |
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10/1/2014 Upload Date: 10/3/2014 4:01:06 PM |
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Dane, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4051(SD40-2) |
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WAMX 4219 poses on the main after arriving at the yard with L863 |
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This is a unique unit on the WSOR, with its headlight mounted on the short hood instead of between the cab numberboards, hinting at its CP heritage (although the bell has been moved to the traditional underframe location). The frame stenciling denotes this unit as an SD40-2, although it was built as an SD40 and retains the shorter frame and Flexicoil trucks (rather like the ex-C&O former 407X serier, which are designated SD40M-2). It is also the only unit with a red goose logo on the short hood, placed in the middle of the thick gray chevron (presumably due to the headlight). The other units painted to WSOR colors by Watco have a white logo placed in the red area near the top of the hood. The locomotive was painted in this scheme sometimZ in the late fall of 2017, after spending over a year roaming WSOR territory in the Watco "Yellow Bonnet" scheme. There was also a four-axle unit on the system in that scheme, although I don't know the number as I never saw it. |
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5/18/2018 Upload Date: 5/21/2018 5:24:07 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) |
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419 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Just a dash of color |
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10/1/2014 Upload Date: 10/3/2014 3:53:32 PM |
Location: |
Devils Lake, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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WSOR 4051(SD40-2) |
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209 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Lake Wisconsin bridge sequence 2 of 5 |
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5/18/2018 Upload Date: 5/21/2018 5:10:47 PM |
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Merrimac, WI |
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Andre Wehrle |
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WAMX 4219(SD40-2) |
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WSOR 3801 pulls alongside while switching the yard |
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5/13/2013 Upload Date: 5/25/2013 1:28:35 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
WSOR 3801(GP38) |
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143 Comments: 0 |
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