A fast moving CN container train is about to overtake a slow moving mixed freight on the west leg of the wye at the north end of the former SOO yard at Neenah, WI on 15 Aug. '15. Container train had two locomotives, CN 5704 and CN 2522. Mixed freight had two locomotives, CN 2300 and CN 2727. The rail sections supported by concrete blocks and railroad ties next to the locomotives rest atop the remnants of the foundation from the ca. 1955 masonry SOO depot. It was built to replace the wooden depot built in 1891 on Sherry St., about 850 ft. to the southeast, which was torn down soon after the new one opened. Clearwater Paper, formerly Kimberly-Clark, a long-time rail customer, looms background left. |