Ever wonder where those taco shells came from at your supermarket? WSOR works the Ortega spur in Stoughton, making a shove past the Ortega plant.
WSOR's Reedsburg turn leaves Madison past the ex-CNW roundhouse, which a few days earlier had been completely gutted by an early morning Railroad: Wisconsin & SouthernLocomotive: EMD SD20Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USALocomotive #: WSOR 2056Train ID: M3Photo Date: April 22, 2007
WSOR Reedsburg turn throttles up after a set out a couple miles back.
WSOR veteran Engineer Robert Eineke eases his train out onto the bridge crossing Lake Wisconsin at Merrimac. In a couple months boats will dot the lake on Sunday afternoons like this.
PHL 46, an ex-UP SD24B, sits on the Alameda Corridor waiting to head back to the harbor.
WSOR Reedsburg turn busts through the work of the plows leaving Madison.
A Guilford/Pan Am holy grail - an SD26 in the lead! These are old as dirt, ex-Santa Fe jobs, and they just refuse to die. Westbound along the Merrimack.
Ohio Centrial was leasing this old SD9 to power a fiber optic cable laying train. Note the second car in the train is the trench digger and is made from a former ATSF G.E. C-30-7 frame and truck... (more)
Tied down, waiting for a new crew.
A meet on the IHB: The northbound, with the GP40, prepares to pickup the conductor of the southbound train, with one of the IHB's SD20s.
The Prairie job interrupts the quiet of Lone Rock on its way west. The MILW spur to Richland Center broke off here at one time, today a stub track remains.
unloading rock along the new doubletrack between Parkwood and Graces
A pair of IHB's infamous orange and black SD20s make some smoke in typical 1st generation EMD fashion as they head south on the IHB.
A visitor you just don't see anymore, two years later.