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Heading for greener pastures |
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Looking through the out-of-service Webb Avenue crossing. The building with the brick chimney in the distance is the old C&NW Reedsburg passenger depot. Just it front of it is a red board and derail, beyond which is active track heading east towards Madison. |
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5/10/2022 Upload Date: 5/23/2022 1:54:55 PM |
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Reedsburg, WI |
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Looking north at two out-of-service ex-CGW crossings on Frederick Ave. |
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Oelwein took its nickname of "Hub City" from being the junction of Chicago Great Western's Kansas City line with their Chicago-Twin Cities mainline. When C&NW acquired CGW they abandoned the majority of CGW's trackage, but kept the large yard and shops here. The yard became a preferred place to store power, so photos of large deadlines of F units and the like from Oelwein are common. A small portion of the Chicago line to south of 7th Street SE was left in place, but whatever customer was there has since closed or stopped using rail service. The west leg of the wye is the only one still active, as Iowa Northern services town from Waterloo on a piece of the old Kansas City line. Transco Railway Products uses the former shops, and a couple customers are served near Highway 3 on a stub of the old line toward St. Paul. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 7/29/2023 7:23:04 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Northern (southbound) signal at the northern crossing on Frederick Ave. |
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Judging from the relatively few surviving examples from the railroad; one mast-mounted crossing signal combined with one cantilever seemed to be relatively more common on the CGW than other railroads. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/20/2023 4:35:35 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking southeast across Frederick Ave. |
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Northern crossing, view heading from the Twin Cities toward Chicago. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/20/2023 4:37:03 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking northwest from Frederick Avenue, toward the Twin Cities |
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Active track (portion of the ex-CGW Kansas City line) used by IANR comes in from the left and curves into the mostly vacant ex-CGW yard visible in the distance beyond the red board. To the right is the Hub City Heritage Corporation RR Museum and their CGW F-unit. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/20/2023 4:43:01 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Andre Wehrle |
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CGW 116A(FP7A) |
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Looking south at both out-of-service ex-CGW RR crossings on Frederick Avenue |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/20/2023 4:45:38 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking north at the northern crossing on Frederick Avenue |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 5:37:09 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking northwest across Frederick Avenue |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:00:07 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking southeast from Frederick Ave. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:02:21 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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The remaining crossing signal on 7th St. SE |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:03:27 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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The downward-aimed lights on the signal at 7th St. SE |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:04:09 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking northwest from 7th St. SE |
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There is one other disused, signalized grade crossing between here and the northern crossing on Frederick Avenue (IA-150/Rock Island Rd.). I didn't have time to photograph it on this day, crossing my fingers the signals are still there by the next time I can make it back to Oelwein. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:05:30 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking south across 7th St. SE |
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The old CGW main going towards Chicago ends where the spur to the former customer bends off to the right, at a switch hidden in the trees in the distance. According to Google Maps Street View, the rails still went across the road here as of the previous October. The old main to the left was removed from the crossing sometime between 2008 and 2010 according to pictures on rxrsignals.com |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:07:03 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Remains of former CGW rails stubbed off in the grass south of 7th St. SE |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:08:44 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Another look at the lone signal still standing at 7th St. SE |
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Per Google Street View, the other signal was still present (and the lights on this signal still faced forward towards traffic on the road) as of October, 2016, even though the crossing was already out of service with the rails at Rock Island Rd. to the northwest removed and the grade paved over. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:09:51 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Another look at the lights on the remaining crossing signal at 7th St. SE |
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This third pair of lights, still facing forward, would have been to warn traffic turning right off 3rd Ave. SE. The two pairs of downward-aimed lights for 7th St. SE are old Western Railroad Supply (WRRS Co.) cast iron lights. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:11:03 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Looking west at what's left of the 7th St. SE crossing |
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Based on the condition of the signals and tracks through the years on Google Street View and photos on rxrsignals.com, the last service to whatever customer was at the end of the line was probably in the late 2000s or very early 2010s. |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 8/21/2023 6:12:54 PM |
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Oelwein, IA |
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Last Train to Lake Geneva |
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Literally. From what I've learned via a Facebook group, a total of 43 cabooses of CGW and Milwaukee Road heritage were shoved here over the already embargoed line in 1981 in order to establish the "End of the Line Caboose Motel" at this location. The line down to the current end-of-track at Ringwood, IL was dismantled beginning the following day. The C&NW branch line once extended all the way to Williams Bay. Now a small piece is used as a branch line for Metra service to McHenry off the Harvard Sub main at Crystal Lake, with freight only from McHenry to end-of-track at the DOW plant in Ringwood. |
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11/5/2023 Upload Date: 11/7/2023 5:56:35 PM |
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Lake Geneva, WI |
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"Caboose No. 2" |
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Ex-CGW. Built 5/46, received/inspected by C&NW 5/77. Five cabooses are in a line south of the office, with 38 more north of it. Some are ex-Milwaukee Road in the ribside/bay window style, and some of those are welded together to form "double-wides." This was established as the End of the Line Caboose Motel; now they are privately owned condominiums. |
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11/5/2023 Upload Date: 11/7/2023 5:59:24 PM |
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Lake Geneva, WI |
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