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By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:8/21/2006 - 5/24/2024
Album Info:This former Milwaukee Road line was one of several radiating out of the Capital City to be put up for abandonment by the bankrupt carrier in the 1980s, despite the fact that it connected south-central Wisconsin's two largest cities. Along with several of the others, it was rescued by the state DOT and the multi-county Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission and operated by short line Wisconsin & Calumet until WICT's takeover by the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, which today operates the line as the Madison Subdivision. It serves as the main line of the WSOR's Southern Division, ferrying traffic north from Janesville bound for points on the branch lines out of Madison, and bringing traffic back from the branches and the Canadian Pacific's line from Portage to Janesville and the outside world. There is also considerable on-line traffic generated in the communities of McFarland, Stoughton, Edgerton, and Milton Junction. Union Pacific ballast trains to and from the quarry at Rock Springs on the Reedsburg line operated in the summers until 2011. The line was upgraded to continuous welded rail in 2010-11 after two major derailments in 2007 contributed to its being slow-ordered to 10 MPH.
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Air testing the assembled train before rolling into town
Title:  Air testing the assembled train before rolling into town
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Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:48:09 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Starting to pull
Title:  Starting to pull
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Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:48:27 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  118   Comments: 0
Rolling Across Rotamer
Title:  Rolling Across Rotamer
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Photo Date:  5/1/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 8:48:58 PM
Location:  Janesville, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 4173(SD40-2)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Here come the troops
Title:  Here come the troops
Description:  T4 has a long string of flats bearing new USMC JLTVs built at Oshkosh; it's shoving around the wye onto the Madison Sub to set out most of the train here, including the military loads.
Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:10:01 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
TPDX 190302
Title:  TPDX 190302
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Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:17:56 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
DODX 42259
Title:  DODX 42259
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Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:22:06 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
NS HighTop
Title:  NS HighTop
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Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:24:59 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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T004 begins pulling what's left of the train toward Janesville
Title:  T004 begins pulling what's left of the train toward Janesville
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Photo Date:  11/18/2023  Upload Date: 11/18/2023 6:25:57 PM
Location:  Milton Junction, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WAMX 6023(SD60M)
Views:  143   Comments: 1
WSOR 4007
Title:  WSOR 4007
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Photo Date:  8/8/2007  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 9:55:44 PM
Location:  Willow Creek, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4007(SD40-2)
Views:  348   Comments: 0


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