| A look into the yard area from the northwest corner along Pioneer Drive in Oshkosh. The tan building was put in by the Fox River Valley Railroad and the smaller station/yard office can be seen as a tan blob through the trees behind it. An industrial spur line ran along the side of the building and curved off to the right at about the mid foreground of the photo. This line, was used to serve industries located along the river, most of which closed in the mid to late '80's. The track was torn out after Jeld-Wen purchased Morgan Manufacturing and closed it down, some time in the mid 1990's. I am unsure if Morgan used rail service at that time. I do know that the line was used to access the north bank of the river via the joint Soo-Milwaukee Road bridge as late as 1990, having witnessed a FRVR train trundle along Summit Avenue to access the northern industrial park. In this photo a small excavator can be seen working in the tree line cleaning out debris. Hopes are that perhaps the railroad was to be adding some sort of infrastructure to add capacity, but nothing has seems to have come from it railroad related. However, some information lists the area as Pioneer Drive Park now. A good place to watch the CN trans-con. |