Two things in this photo typify a vast swath of profit generated by Watco online business: an oil well and a wheat field. The company and the railroad industry in general wouldn't be what it is t... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using Wisconsin & Southern equipment leaves the new 3 Million bushel facility which has just finished construction outside Great Bend, KS. The grain elevator is... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using WSOR equipment is headed by #101, their covered wagon EMD E9, is rolling under a Santa Fe steam locomotive coaling tower on the K&O Great Bend Sub. after w... (more)

The long out of service wye was restored to use for the sole purpose of turning the business train here today. I can imagine this was a somewhat stressful endeavor for those directly involved, bu... (more)

The 1910 former ATSF Depot and the original 1872 main in Great Bend gets a short visit from Watco Companies' Wisconsin & Southern business train on a run between Hutchinson and the Bend, entertain... (more)

OK, maybe you can take the zero in the middle out. It's not every day you get to shoot an E9 in Kansas. This one is clanking down the K&O Great Bend Sub. towards the town the line is named for w... (more)

WSOR 101 is ready to depart Horicon with a business train for Milwaukee on a beautiful Spring day in 2009.

WSOR 101 is grouped together with two of Wisconsin & Southern's MP15ACs in the yard at Horicon.

WSOR business train waits for a southbound BNSF freight to pass. Parent Watco moved this train to its Stillwater Central yard in Oklahoma City in March 2013 shortly after purchasing the Wisconsin... (more)

Wisconsin and Southern's passenger train lays over for the weekend across from Kansas City Union Station as an eastbound BNSF stack train takes the green signal just east of the depot on 11/15/13.... (more)

WSOR 101 creeps along Illinois Railway's Rockford Branch at 10 MPH, its M3 airhorn singing beautifully.

Headed west down the former IC&E mainline to CP's Nahant (Davenport, IA) Yard, and ultimately Kansas City and Oklahoma, the Wisconsin & Southern business train is looking good at Leaf River as the... (more)

The WSOR business train contrasts nicely with the snow, as it rolls through Stillman Valley.

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, one of the Wisconsin & Southern's covered wagons and matching business train head south through Davis Junction, closing in on the former IC&E mainline to Nahant Yard a... (more)

Who knows how long this gem will survive. Taken on explicit railroad property with permission/PPE worn.