With a combined total of 5300 horsepower, the WSOR EMDs tackle the 1 percent grade between Lodi and Dane, with a decent size train in tow.
L863 rolls along past houses, farms, and fields.
L863 crosses Shamrock Road in Okee on their way back to Madison.
L863 rolls along the shores of Lake Wisconsin.
L863 crosses the nearly 2000 foot long Merrimac Bridge.
WAMX 3947 and 4187 lean into the curve as they drag a decent size train out of the Baraboo River Valley, and up into Devil's Lake State Park.
The grain train has arrived in Milton, where they will shuffle some power around.
WAMX 4219 leads a four pack of SD40-2s on a unit grain train bound for Chicago. 4219 was built in 1966, making it the oldest SD40-2 on the WSOR roster. It is also the only red and gray engine on t... (more)
As the darkness of a bone-chilling winter's evening creeps in, a pair of venerable EMD SD40-2s lug Wisconsin Southern train no. 463 towards Reedsburg
L463 has finished their Baraboo work and heads West for Reedsburg.
WSOR 4009, originally Milwaukee Road 199, is strung out through the Baraboo industrial park as they switch RR Donnely.
L469 heads for Oregon with sand and gravel loads for Oregon, with the Wisconsin state capitol in the background. When WAMX 3947 first showed up on the Wisconsin & Southern, the UP herald was cover... (more)
L464 switches Amerhart Lumber in Sun Prairie.
WAMX 3928 takes L465 past the festive Westland Promenade.
L465 makes the 10 MPH trek over the Black Earth Creek.